Earls Heaton, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Earls Heaton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1828 from Dewsbury All Saints Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Dewsbury St Peter, Earls Heaton, Earlsheaton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1827
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1827

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EARLS-HEATON, a chapelry in Dewsbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Calder, 1 mile ESE of Dewsbury r. station. It has a post office under Dewsbury, Pop., 4, 019. Houses, 837.

The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Ripon. Value, £164. Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury. The church was built in 1827.

There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Earls-Heaton – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for St. Peter’s Church, Earls-Heaton, 1827-1853
Author:    Church of England. St. Peter’s Church (Earls-Heaton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Earls-Heaton, 1827-1960
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Earls-Heaton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Earls-Heaton – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Earls Heaton, Yorks., Eng

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