Elland Yorkshire Family History Guide

Elland is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1724 from Halifax St John the Baptist Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Rastrick, Norland, Halifax Christ Church, Greetland, Fixby, Barkisland, Warley, Sowerby Bridge, Skircoat, and Rishworth.

Alternative names: Elland cum Stainland and Fixby, Elland with Greetland, Halifax St Mary with St Michael

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Elland

Parish registers: 1559
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Sowerby Bridge

Parish registers: 1709
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Rastrick

Parish registers: 1719
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include:

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ELLAND, a small town, a chapelry, a township, and a sub-district in Halifax Parish and district, W. R. Yorkshire.

The town stands on the river Calder, adjacent to the Leeds and Manchester railway, 3 miles SSE of Halifax; has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post-office under Normanton; was anciently a market town; and is now, with its neighbourhood, a seat of manufacture of coarse woollen goods. Pop. 3, 643. Houses, 760.

The chapelry has not defined limits, but seems practically to be co-extensive with the town. The property is not much divided. Here, on the Calder, stood the mansion of the knightly family of Elland or Ealand, memorable for feuds in the time of Edward III., celebrated in an old ballad.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church is ancient, in tolerable condition; and has a tower.

There are five dissenting chapels, two endowed schools for boys and girls, and a national school.

The township is joined to Greetland, bears the name of Elland-with-Greetland, and includes the chapelry of Greetland.

Acres, 3, 360. Real property, £25, 044; of which £298 are in mines, £10 in quarries, and £400 in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 7, 225; in 1861, 8, 716. Houses, 1, 749. The increase of population arose from the erection of several large factories.

There are brick-works, coarse pottery-works, and a spa.

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

Parish Registers

Paver’s Marriage Licences

It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.

1630 Edmund Whitwell, Elland, and Elizabeth Clay, Halifax—at Elland. (At Elland, 1 Jan., 1630-1. His name Whittell in the register, which is most probably correct, there being many of that name there.)

1630 John Holgate, Halifax, and Elizabeth Farrer, Elland—either place. (At Elland, 22 Feb., 1630-1.)

Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.

Parish Records

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Maps

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

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