Friezeland Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Friezeland is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1848 from Saddleworth Ecclesiastical Parish and Lydgate Ecclesiastical Parish in Yorkshire and Stalybridge St Paul Ecclesiastical Parish in Cheshire.

Alternative names: Friezland, Saddleworth Christ Church

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

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

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FRIEZLAND, a chapelry in the parishes of Mottram and Rochdale, Lancashire and W. R. Yorkshire; at the backbone of England, near Greenfield r. station, 4½ miles W by S of Oldham.

It was constituted in 1848; and its post town is Greenfield, under Manchester. Pop., 2,191. Houses, 445.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £300. Patron, R. R. Whitehead, Esq.

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Saddleworth
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: Manchester
  • Rural Deanery: Ashton Under Lyne
  • Poor Law Union: Saddleworth Gilbert Union
  • Hundred: Agbrigg
  • Province: