Hemsworth Yorkshire Family History Guide
Hemsworth is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Little Hemsworth.
Alternative names:
Riding: West Riding
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1654
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HEMSWORTH, a village, a parish, and a district in W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands adjacent to the Wakefield and Doncaster railway, 7¾ miles SE of Wakefield; is well built and large; and has a post office under Pontefract, a r. station, a working men’s reading-room, a church, three dissenting chapels, a well endowed hospital, a free grammar school, a national school, and a workhouse. The reading room is a recent and handsome edifice, and contains a well selected library.
The church is later English; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains a font and a few ancient monuments. The hospital was founded in 1555, by Archbishop Holgate; has now a new building, and an endowed income of £3,200; and devotes one-fifth of that income to a master, and the rest to twenty men and twenty women. The grammar school was founded in 1546, also by Archbishop Holgate, who was a native; and it now has an endowed income of about £400. Other charities have £15.
The workhouse is recent; and was erected in consequence of the separation of Hemsworth district from that of Pontefract.
The parish contains also Little Hemsworth hamlet, ½ a mile E of the village, and comprises 4,120 acres. Real property, £7,487. Pop., 975. Houses, 214. The property is chiefly divided among five.
Hemsworth Hall was the birthplace of the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, and his residence till 1830; and is now the seat of W. H. Leatham, Esq. Newstead Hall is the seat of the Rev. Peter Jackson. Building stone is quarried; bricks are made; and there is a steam corn mill.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £880. Patron, W. B. Wrightson, Esq.
The district contains also the parishes of Ackworth, Wragby, Felkirk, Badsworth, Kirk-Smeaton, and South Kirby, two townships of Womersley, two of Darfield, and the extra-parochial tract of Foulby, Nostell, and Huntwick. Acres, 33,870. Poor rates in 1863, £4,026. Pop. in 1851, 8,158; in 1861, 7,793. Houses, 1,657.
Marriages in 1862, 39; births, 238, of which 17 were illegitimate; deaths, 154, of which 34 were at ages under 5 years, and 7 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 415; births, 2,319; deaths, 1,292.
The places of worship, in 1851, were 10 of the Church of England, with 3,189 sittings; 1 of Quakers, with 850 s.; 18 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 2,296 s.; 7 of Primitive Methodists, with 257 s.; 2 undefined, with 50 s.; and 1 of Roman Catholics, with 70 s.
The schools were 18 public day schools, with 1,187 scholars; 17 private day schools, with 305 s.; and 21 Sunday schools, with 1,045 s.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Hemsworth Register Burials 1810 to 1812
Buried in 1810
Feb. 21. Edwd. Shepherd, Labourer
Mar. 14. Sarah Wife of Thomas England, Weaver
May 13. Joseph Crowder, Servant in Husbandry
May 31. Elizabeth wife of John Deuch, Mason
Jun. 25. Mrs. Sarah Marsdin, Widow from Hoyland
Jul. 31. Elizabeth Liles, Singlewoman
Oct. 3. Elizabeth wife of Paul Wood, Labourer
Oct. 26. Henry Cawood, Gent: from Pontefract
Oct. 27. Abigail Whiteley, Singlewoman
Nov. 11. Mary Townend, widow
Nov. 29. Joseph Allan, Labourer
Dec. 2. Wm: son of Abraham Lockwood, Farmer
Buried in 1811
Feb. 11. John Stocks, Esq: Kingsley
Feb. 18. George Guest, Labourer
Mar. 6. Martha wife of Timothy Crowder
Mar. 16. James Waterton, a Brother in Hospital
Mar. 27. Sarah Earnshaw a Sister in the Hospital
Apl. 8. Sarah Briggs a Sister in the Hospital
Apl. 10. Hannah wife of Thomas Brooke
Apl. 28. Grace Green a Sister in the Hospital
May 8. Thomas Newsam, Labourer
May 26. Ann Guest, a Sister in the Hospital
Jul. 11. Matthias Son of Thomas Otley, Labourer
Aug. 4. Elizabeth wife of George Hill, Labourer
Sep. 1. Mary Wife of Thomas Chappell, Carpenter
Sep. 6. Mary wife of John Woodcock, Innkeeper
Sep. 11. Rebecca wife of Thomas Carter, Gardener
1812
Jan. 30. William Stables, Esq.
Feb. 10. Sarah Gascoigne, Spinster
Feb. 20. Mrs. Grace Townend, Widow
Mar. 30. John Tee, Shopkeeper
Apl. 21. William Addy, Labourer
Aug. 12. Mary Daughter of Joshua Parkin, Mason
July 24. Susannah Green, widow
Sep. 16. Eliz: daughter of Thomas Popplewell, Felmonger
Oct. 10. Martha wife of George Fores, Cordwainer
Nov. 4. Eliz: wife of Joseph Skelton, Tanner
Nov. 15. Sarah wife of John Turner, Blksmith
Hemsworth Registers Burials 1805 to 1809
Buried in 1805
Jan. 5. Mary Daughter of William Thompson, Apothecary
Mar. 12. George Hole a Brother of the Hospital
Apl. 3. William Thompson, Surgeon & Apothecary
May 16. Andrew Jessop, Farmer
Aug. 19. William Addy a Brother of the Hospital
Oct. 2. Ann daughter of Thomas Downing, Labourer
Oct. 29. Miss Abigail Stocks, Spinster
Nov. 6. Mary Wilby, Widow
Nov. 21. The Revd. John Robinson, Clerk
Dec. 6. Naomi Beevors a Sister of the Hospital
Buried in 1806
Mar. 17. Mary Sunderland a Sister of the Hospital
May 5. Mary Daughter of George Wommack, Labourer
May 9. Samuel Spurr, Labourer
July 25. Elizabeth dau. of George Womack, Lab.
Sep. 26. John Son John Wilby of Leeds, Innkeeper
Oct. 20. Francis Thackeray, Labourer
Dec. 20. Richard Rishworth, Farmer
Buried in 1807
Apl. 10. Robert Archdale of Snaith, Yeoman
Jun. 28. Mrs. Jane Fourness, widow, Lane Ends
Jul. 2. Abraham Lockwood, Yeoman
Aug. 24. Joseph Son of John Thorp, Servant Man
Oct. 12. William Farrar, Labourer
Oct. 13. Mary Charlsworth, Single woman
Buried in 1808
Feb. 19. Rowland Son of Michael Woodcock, Surgeon
Feb. 28. Mary wife of Ed. Crosland, Sexton
Mar. 12. Joseph Son of John Guest, Servant in Husbandry
May 14. Mary Senior, Widow, aged 88
Jun. 5. Susanh. Wife of Wm. Jessop, Gardiner
Jun. 19. Mary Dau. of Thos. Haigh, Labourer
Jun. 19. Elizabeth Maugham, Single Woman
Jul. 15. Charles Woodcock, Surgeon
Aug. 9. Mary dau. of James Hemmingway, Taylor
Sep. 5. Joseph Gasgin, Blksmith
Sep. 5. Joseph Townend, Farmer
Oct. 14. Martha Wife of Wm. Shillito, Lab.
Nov. 12. John Gaskin, Cordwainer
Buried in 1809
Feb. 6. Susanh. dau. of George Beevers, Lab.
Feb. 15. Timothy Crowder a Brother of the Hospital
Apl. 11. Daniel Haigh, Labourer
Apl. 15. William Walshaw, Miller
May 12. John Newsom, Labourer
Sep. 5. Catharine wife of James Lodge, Butcher
Sep. 20. Miss Mary Heber, Sister to the Lady of Wm. Wrightson, Esq. of Cusworth
Dec. 4. Sarah Addy, widow
Dec. 22. Benjamin Fores, Cordwainer
Dec. 30. Ann Duke, Single Woman
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Hemsworth
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Doncaster
- Poor Law Union: Hemsworth
- Hundred: Staincross
- Province: York