Buttershaw, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Buttershaw is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1842 from Bradford St Peter Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Westwood, Cold Harbour, Slack End, and Slack Side.

Alternative names: Bradford St Paul

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1838
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Independent

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUTTERSHAW, a chapelry in Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire, near Bradford; constituted in 1842. Post Town, Bradford. Rated property, £4,334. Pop., 2,247. Houses, 505. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £200. Patron,Hardy, Esq. The church was built in 1838; and a handsome Independent chapel was built in 1868.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Buttershaw – Cemeteries ( 4 )
Monumental inscriptions of Bradford district, 1800-1920

Monumental inscriptions of Buttershaw Cemetery

Monumental inscriptions of Buttershaw Cemetery

Monumental inscriptions, Buttershaw, Yorkshire, England
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. British Mission

England, Yorkshire, Buttershaw – Church records ( 2 )
Parish register transcripts, 1839-1929
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Buttershaw

Parish registers for St. Paul’s Chapel, Buttershaw, 1838-1918
Author:    Church of England. St. Paul’s Chapel (Buttershaw, Yorkshire)

Administration

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