Gildersome is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1789 from a chapelry in Batley Ancient Parish; located on Victoria Road.
Other places in the parish include: Gildersome Street.
Alternative names: Batley St Peter
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1813
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GILDERSOME, a village and a township-chapelry in Batley parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to a branch of the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax railway, 5 miles SW of Leeds; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leeds.
The chapelry comprises 1, 120 acres. Real property, £9, 103; of which £3, 450 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2, 126; in 1861, 2, 701. Houses, 558. The property is subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cloth-making and in fulling-mills.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120. Patron, the Vicar of Batley. The church is ancient, but good; and has a tower.
There are chapels for Baptists, Quakers, and Wesleyans, and an endowed school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Gildersome – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Cemetery registers of Gildersome Cemetery, 1865-1999
Author: Gildersome Cemetery (Gildersome, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Gildersome – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Gildersome, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Gildersome – Church history ( 1 )
Quakers in Gildersome : the history of a Yorkshire meeting
Author: Mortimer, Jean E.
England, Yorkshire, Gildersome – Church records ( 7 )
Baptisms, 1879-1912
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Church. Morley Circuit (Yorkshire)
Births, 1799-1819
Author: Baptist Church (Gildersome, Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Batley, 1600-1871
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Batley (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Gildersome, 1813-1863
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Gildersome (Yorkshire)
History of Gildersome and the Booth family
Author: Booth, Philip Henry
Marriages, births and burials, 1710-1811
Author: Society of Friends. Gildersome Preparative Meeting (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Batley, 1559-1913
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Batley (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Gildersome – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
Computer printout of Gildersome, Baptist, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Gildersome, Yorks., Eng
Gildersome St Peter’s church baptism index 1813-1894
Author: Morley and District Family History Group
Gildersome Zion United Free Methodist Chapel : baptism index 1865-1940
Author: Morley and District Family History Group
England, Yorkshire, Gildersome – History ( 1 )
History of Gildersome and the Booth family
Author: Booth, Philip Henry
England, Yorkshire, Gildersome – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Gildersome township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Hunslet
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Bramley
- Hundred: Morley
- Province: York
