Batley Carr Yorkshire Family History Guide

Batley Carr is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from Dewsbury All Saints Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Dewsbury Holy Trinity

Riding: West Riding

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1841
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1842

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BATLEY-CARR, a hamlet and a chapelry in Batley and Dewsbury parishes, W. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet stands ¾ of a mile S of Batley, and has a post office under Dewsbury. The chapelry was constituted in 1842. Rated property, £6,505. Pop., 3,859. Houses, 796. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury. The church is good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Batley-Carr, an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1842 out of that of Dewsbury, W.R. Yorkshire. It stands f of a mile N of Dewsbury, with a station on the G.N.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) tinder Dewsbury. Population, 4191. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £320. Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury. The church is good. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Batley Carr – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Batley Carr, 1841-1909
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Batley Carr (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Batley Carr – Directories ( 1 )
Staincliffe & Batley Carr, 1906
Author:    Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

England, Yorkshire, Batley Carr – Maps ( 1 )
Staincliffe & Batley Carr, 1906
Author:    Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Dewsbury
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery: Pontefract
  • Poor Law Union: Dewsbury
  • Hundred: Agbrigg
  • Province: York