Kirkburton Yorkshire Family History Guide

Updated onOctober 19, 2024

Links marked with a * mean that we may earn a small commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you. It all helps to keep the site online and free for everyone.

Kirkburton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Scholes, Roydhouse, Paddock, Meal Hill, Linfit Lane, Highburton, High Burton, Hepworth, Green Grove, Fulstone, Fulston, Foulston, Foster Place, Foolstone, Dogley Lane, Dogby Lane, Digby Lane, Cartworth, Barnside, Austonley, Wooldale, Woodhouse, Thurstonland, Thunderbridge, Thorstonland, Spring Grove, Shelley Lane End, and Shelley.

Alternative names: Kirk Burton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1540
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Methodist, Methodist New Connexion, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Unitarian, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Table of Contents

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KIRKBURTON, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in Huddersfield district, W. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands 2 miles N of Shepley r. station, and 5 SE of Huddersfield, and has a post office, under Huddersfield; and cattle fairs on the last Monday of April and Oct.

The township contains also the village of High-Burton, and the hamlets of Dogley-Lane, GreenGrove, Spring-Grove, Linfit-Lane, and Paddock. Acres, 1, 260. Real property, £7, 476; of which £89 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 3, 560; in 1861, 3, 664. Houses, 748. Much of the land belongs to the Earl of Dartmonth. The woollen and fancy manufactures are largely carried on.

The parish contains also the townships of Shelley, Shepley, Thurstonland, Fulstone, Hepworth, Cartworth, Wooldale, and part of Half-Cumberworth. Acres, 15, 990. Real property, with the rest of Half-Cumberworth, £50, 101; of which £2, 006 are in mines, £568 in iron works, and £104 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 20, 371; in 1861, 20, 526. Houses, 4, 071. The property, in most parts, is much subdivided.

The manor of Shepley belongs to Sir Joseph Radcliffe; that of Thurstonland, to H. Bill, Esq.; and that of Hepworth, to S. W. L. Fox, Esq. The mines are in seven of the townships, but most largely in Thurstonland and Hepworth; the iron works are in Hepworth; and woollen mills are in Shelley, Shepley, and Hepworth.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £320. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is of the 13th century; and has a fine chancel, and a tower.

The p. curacies of Shepley, Thurstonland, Newmill, Hepworth, and Holmfirth, are separate benefices.

There are Independent, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, national schools, a mechanics’ institute, and several charities in Kirkburton township; and five churches, eight Dissenting chapels, a number of public schools, and some charities, in the other townships.

The subdistrict excludes Fulstone, Hepworth, Cartworth, and Wooldale townships, but includes a township of High Hoyland and Silkstone parishes. Acres, 7, 160. Pop., 12, 501. Houses, 2, 492.

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

Parish Registers

Paver’s Marriage Licences

It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.

1630 John Archer and Sibel Bothamley, Kirkburton—there.

Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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