Dewsbury West Town St Matthew, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Dewsbury West Town St Matthew is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1849 from Dewsbury All Saints Ancient Parish; located on Huddersfield Road.

Alternative names: Dewsbury St Matthew

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1848
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1849

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

See Also Dewsbury Yorkshire Family History Guide

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WEST TOWN, a chapelry in Dewsbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to Dewsbury town and r. station. It was constituted in 1849; and its Post town is Dewsbury. Pop. 3,431. Houses, 706. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury.

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

Parish Registers

The Registers of Dewsbury Yorkshire Vol. 1 1538 to 1653 Edited by Samuel Joseph Chadwick, F.S.A., Honorary Secretary of the “Record Series” of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Printed by Joseph Ward & Co., Caxton Square, Dewsbury. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Parish Records

Report upon an Epidemic of Small-Pox in the Borough of Dewsbury in 1904 by J. Spencer Low, B.Sc., D.P.H., Barrister-at-Law, Medical Officer of Health. With a Report upon the Small-Pox Hospital by E. Maynard Ashcroft, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., Resident Medical Officer. Published Dewsbury: Joseph Ward & Co., Caxton Square, Church Street. 1905. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

FamilySearch

See Also Dewsbury Yorkshire Family History Guide

United Kingdom, England, Yorkshire, Dewsbury – Church records ( 2 )
Parish registers for St. Matthew’s Church, Dewsbury, 1848-1913
Author: Church of England. St. Matthew’s Church (Dewsbury, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Thornhill-Lees, 1858-1936
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Thornhill-Lees (Yorkshire); Church of England. St. Mary’s Mission Church (Savile Town, Yorkshire)

United Kingdom, England, Yorkshire, Dewsbury – Directories ( 1 )
Dewsbury, 1905
Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

United Kingdom, England, Yorkshire, Dewsbury – Maps ( 1 )
Dewsbury, 1905
Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

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