Dewsbury, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish Records
Dewsbury is an 'ancient' parish (created before 1813). Church of England records began in 1538, and those for Dewsbury All Saints survive from that date. Other pre-1837 Church of England (Anglican) churches in Dewsbury parish include:


 * the chapelry of Hartshead (from 1600)
 * the chapelry of Ossett (from 1813)
 * the chapelry of Hanging-Heaton (with records from 1826)
 * the chapelry of Dewsbury-Moor (from 1827)
 * St. Peter's Earls-Heaton (from 1827)
 * St. John's Dewsbury (from 1830)
 * Holy Trinity Dewsbury (from 1842)

The original registers are deposited at the West Yorkshire Archives in Wakefield.

The copies made by the minister (ordered by an Act of 1598) and sent each year to the Bishop of the diocese (known as parish register transcripts or Bishop's transcripts) survive from 1600 and are deposited at the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research in the city of York.