Brighouse is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1836 from Lightcliffe Ecclesiastical Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Hipperholme cum Brighouse with Lightcliff and Coleys.
Alternative names: Halifax St Martin
Riding: West Riding
Parish church: St Martin
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1831
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1841
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BRIGHOUSE, a village and a chapelry in Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse township, Halifax parish, and a subdistrict in Halifax district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Calder, adjacent to the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3½ miles ESE of Halifax; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, a post office under Normanton, and fairs on 13 May and 12 Oct.
Trade is carried on in cotton, woollen, and worsted manufactures, in malt-making and card-making, and in the working and exporting of building-stone. Fixby Hall, the seat of the Thornhills, is in the vicinity.
The chapelry includes the village; and was constituted in 1842. Rated property, £11,660. Pop., 4,562. Houses, 947. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £250. Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church is a modern Gothic edifice, built at a cost of £3,515. There are a chapel of ease, two Methodist chapels, and an endowed grammar school with £119 a year.
The subdistrict consists of parts of the parishes of Halifax and Dewsbury. Acres, 5,514. Pop., 9,992. Houses, 2,105.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Brighouse Cemetery register of burials, 1874-1978
Author: Brighouse Cemetery (Yorkshire)
Burial registers for Clifton and Brighouse, 1929-1985
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Brighouse (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Clifton (near Hartshead)
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Census – 1801 ( 1 )
Census, 1801, 1811
Author: Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Census – 1811 ( 1 )
Census, 1801, 1811
Author: Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Census – 1831 ( 1 )
Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse census, 1831 : copied from the return in the possession of Brighouse Corporation
Author: Clay, H. Travis; Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse (Yorkshire); Halifax Antiquarian Society (England)
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Church history ( 2 )
A history of Park from 1791 : and the relationship of Park to other local chapels
Author: Howe, G.
Independency at Brighouse, or, Bridge End chapel; pastors and people
Author: Turner, J. Horsfall (Joseph Horsfall)
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Church records ( 8 )
Births, baptisms and burials, 1782-1837
Author: Bridge End Chapel (Brighouse, Yorkshire : Independent)
Births, baptisms and burials, 1796-1837
Author: Wesleyan Church (Brighouse, England)
Births, marriages and burials
Author: Society of Friends. Brighouse Monthly Meeting (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Brighouse, 1841-1861
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Brighouse (Yorkshire)
Burial registers for Clifton and Brighouse, 1929-1985
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Brighouse (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Clifton (near Hartshead)
Church records for Bethel New Connexion Methodist Chapel, Brighouse, 1800-1837
Author: Bethel Chapel (Brighouse, Yorkshire : Methodist New Connexion)
East Calderdale parish registers 1813-1869 West Riding of Yorkshire : Brighouse St. Martin baptisms 1831-1858, burials 1831-1865; Rastrick St. Matthew baptisms 1813-1865, burials 1813-1869; Southowram St. Anne baptisms 1813-1851, burials 1818-1854
Author: Calderdale Family History Society
Parish registers for Brighouse, 1831-1968
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Brighouse (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Church records – Indexes ( 8 )
Arthur Olver’s indexes to Carlton Hill records : Brighouse Society of Friends, index to minutes of monthly meetings, 1688-1855
Author: Olver, Arthur Griffith; Society of Friends. Brighouse Monthly Meeting (Yorkshire)
Computer printout of Brighouse, Bethel Methodist New Connexion, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Brighouse, Bridgend Independent, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Brighouse, Wesleyan, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Brighouse, Yorks., Eng
Parish register printouts of Brighouse, York, England (Independent, Bridge End Chapel) ; christenings, 1782-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Brighouse, York, England (Methodist New Connexion Bethel Chapel) ; christenings, 1800-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Brighouse, York, England (Wesleyan) ; christenings, 1797-1830, 1832
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Maps ( 1 )
Leeds & Bradford including Halifax & Brighouse : A1 easy read street atlas
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Occupations ( 1 )
Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse census, 1831 : copied from the return in the possession of Brighouse Corporation
Author: Clay, H. Travis; Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse (Yorkshire); Halifax Antiquarian Society (England)
England, Yorkshire, Brighouse – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Hipperholme township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
FamilySearch – Birth Marriage & Death Census Migration & Naturalization Military Probate & Court
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Halifax
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Halifax
- Hundred: Morley
- Province: York
