Flockton Yorkshire Family History Guide

Flockton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1731 from a chapelry in Thornhill Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Thornhill St James the Greater

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1813
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1779

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, Protestant Dissenters, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Thornhill
• Kirkheaton
• Kirkburton
• Emley

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FLOCKTON, a chapelry in Thornhill parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 4½ miles WNW of Haigh r. station, and 6½ E by S of Huddersfield. It has a post office under Wakefield. Acres, 1, 090. Real property, £7, 067; of which £2, 480 are in mines. Pop., 1, 090. Houses, 238. The property is much subdivided.

Flockton Hall is a principal residence. Many of the inhabitants are coal-miners. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, 94. Patrons, Certain Trustees. The church is tolerable; and there are four dissenting chapels.

An endowed school has £6; and other charities have £95.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Flockton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Church and cemetery registers, 1795-1945
Author: Zion United Reformed Church (Flockton, Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Flockton – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Kirklees census returns index : Flockton, 1851
Author: Whitwam, Stephen David; Huddersfield & District Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Flockton – Church records ( 9 )
Baptisms for Halifax, Danby, Otley, York Minster, Thornhill and Flockton, York, 1540-1812
Author: Norman, Bertram William Tuff, 1880-1959

Births and baptisms, 1795-1836
Author: Zion Chapel (Flockton, Yorkshire : Independent)

Bishop’s transcripts for Flockton, 1813-1860
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Flockton (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Thornhill, 1600-1857
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thornhill (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Flockton (Yorkshire)

Church and cemetery registers, 1795-1945
Author: Zion United Reformed Church (Flockton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Flockton, 1813-1938
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Flockton (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Thornhill, 1580-1932
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thornhill (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Flockton (Yorkshire)

Parish registers of Thornhill : baptisms, marriages, burials, banns 1580-1812 with baptisms & burials at Flockton 1713-1812
Author: Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section

The register of the parish of Thornhill
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thornhill (Yorkshire); Charlesworth, John; Church of England. Chapelry of Flockton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Flockton – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Flockton, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Flockton, Zion Independent, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Flockton, York, England (Independent, Zion Chapel) ; christenings, 1795-1836
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Yorkshire, Flockton – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Flockton township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

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Administration

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