Sheffield St Paul, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes S-Y West Riding of Yorkshire Sheffield St. Paul Guide to Sheffield St Paul, Yorkshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SHEFFIELD ST PAUL is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1833 from Sheffield [St Peter and St Paul] Ancient Parish; located on Pinstone Street. The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Sheffield, but the exact parish has not been identified: Baptist, Christians, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, General Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Irvingite/Catholic Apostolic Church, Jewish, Methodist New Connexion, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian Unitarian, Protestant Dissenters, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, Unitarian, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Online Records
Online data content from parish registers of Sheffield St Paul exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding **Chapelry** and comprising the whole ancient parish of Sheffield St. Paul to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Sheffield St. Paul page.

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Occupations
Transcribed by Nottinghamshire Family History Society. Nottinghamshire Boys Apprenticed to Cutlers in Hallamshire. This article gives an alphabetical list of apprentices, their parents names, and occupation, and the name of the person they were apprenticed to, occupation, the number of years and the date, starting in 1618-1858, taken from Leader, Robert Eadon, "The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire in the County of York".

Available in Nottinghamshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 107, pages 1-13, FHL Ref942.52 D25n

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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