Dodworth, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Dodworth is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1848 from Silkstone Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Silkstone St John the Baptist

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1848
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DODWORTH, a township-chapelry in Silkstone parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Barnesley and Penistone railway, 2¾ miles W by S of Barnesley. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Barnesley.

Acres, 1, 947. Real property, £12, 863; of which £8, 055 are in mines. Pop., 2, 117. Houses, 435. The property is divided among a few. Linen and other manufactures are carried on.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120. Patron, the Vicar of Silkstone. The church was built in 1842.

There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Dodworth – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Dodworth, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Dodworth – Census – 1861 – Indexes ( 1 )
Barnsley Family History Society index to 1861 census : vol. 23, Dodworth
Author:    Barnsley Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Dodworth – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Dodworth, 1848-1934
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Dodworth (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Dodworth – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Dodworth township, 1782-1827
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Maps

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

Administration

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