Golcar Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Golcar is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1836 from a chapelry in Huddersfield St Peter Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Wellhouse, East Golcar, and West Golcar.

Alternative names: Huddersfield St John the Evangelist

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1829
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1836

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Methodist New Connexion, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GOLCAR, a village, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district in Huddersfield district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3½ miles W by S of Huddersfield; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Hudders-field.

The chapelry includes also the village of Well-house; is in Huddersfield parish; and is separated by the river Colne from Almondbury. Acres, 1, 560. Real property, £10, 105. Pop. in 1851, 4, 212; in 1861, 5, 110. Houses, 1, 019. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cloth manufacture; and the increase of pop. arose from the opening of new mills. There are mineral spa-baths, in much repute.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Huddersfield. The church was built in 1830 is in the early English style; and has a tower and spire.

There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and New Connexion Methodists, two national schools, and a workhouse.

The sub-district includes also three other townships of Huddersfield parish. Acres, 6, 760. Pop., 13, 783. Houses, 2, 769.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Golcar – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Golcar Baptist grave yard stone descriptions
Author: Whitman, Stephen D.

Golcar Parish Church grave yard inscriptions
Author: Whitman, Stephen D.

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

England, Yorkshire, Golcar – Census – 1841 – Indexes ( 1 )
Kirklees census returns index : Golcar, 1841
Author: Whitwam, Stephen David

England, Yorkshire, Golcar – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Golcar census return, A-Z index, 1851
Author: Whitwam, Stephen David; Huddersfield & District Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Golcar – Church history ( 2 )
The History and events of Golcar Baptist Church and its people, 1835-1985 : 150th anniversary souvenir
Author: Whitwam, Stephen David

Providence United Methodist Church, Golcar : jubilee celebrations souvenir with notes and records of fifty years, 1876-1926
Author: Sandbach, J. E.

England, Yorkshire, Golcar – Church records ( 6 )
Births, namings and burials, 1835-1838
Author: Baptist Church (Golcar, Yorkshire)

Births, namings and burials, 1835-1838
Author: Baptist Church (Golcar, Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Golcar, 1836-1846
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Golcar (Yorkshire)

Golcar parish church baptisms, marriages & burials, 1828-1865
Author: Taylor, John G.; Whitwam, Stephen David; Church of England. Chapelry of Golcar (Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1829-1881
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Golcar (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Golcar, 1829-1915
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Golcar (Yorkshire)

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

Computer printout of Golcar, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Golcar, Yorkshire, England, (Particular Baptist Church), christenings, 1835-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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

Administration

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