Knottingley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1725 from a chapelry in Pontefract Ancient Parish.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1724
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Knottingley, a town, a township, and a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the river Aire, at its junction with the Knottingley and Goole Canal, and on the L. & Y.R., 2½ miles ENE of Pontefract; is a seat of trade and commerce, with three shipbuilding yards, mills, malt works, breweries, bone mills, chemical works, potteries, roperies, brickyards, lime kilns, and extensive lime quarries: and has a station on the railway and a head post office.
Acreage of township, 1481; population, 5425; of the ecclesiastical parishes of St Botolph and Christ Church respectively, 2560½ and 2865.
The living of Knottingley is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £145 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Pontefract. The living of East Knottingley is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £170 with residence. Patrons, alternately the Crown and the Archbishop.
There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Register of burials for Knottingley : town cemetery, Womersley Road
Author: Dearden, C. P.
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Knottingley, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Census – 1841 ( 1 )
Index to the 1841 census of Knottingley
Author: Dearden, C. P.
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Census – 1861 ( 1 )
Knottingley strays, 1861
Author: Dearden, C. P.
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Census – 1871 ( 1 )
Index to the 1871 census of Knottingley
Author: Dearden, C. P.
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Census – 1881 ( 1 )
Knottingley strays, 1881
Author: Dearden, C. P.
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Church records ( 18 )
Baptisms of Knottingley, Independent Church, 1813-1837
Author: Independent Chapel (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Baptisms of Knottingley, Independent Church, 1813-1837
Author: Independent Chapel (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Baptisms, 1838-1922
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Church (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Baptisms, 1844-1977
Author: Primitive Methodist Church (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Births and baptisms of Knottingley, Primitive Methodist Church, 1832-1836
Author: Primitive Methodist Chapel (Knottingley, England)
Bishop’s transcripts for East Knottingley, 1848-1868
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of East Knottingley (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Knottingley, 1813-1870
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Knottingley (Yorkshire)
Index to St. Botolph’s burial register, Dec. 1839 to 1932
Author: Gosney, Ron; Church of England. St. Botolph’s Church (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Knottingley Wesleyan Methodist burials, 1845-1983
Author: Gosney, Ron; Wesleyan Methodist Church (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Knottingley, St. Botolph, baptisms, marriages, burials, 1724-1804
Author: Church of England. St. Botolph’s Church (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Marriage register for Ropewalk Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1855-1900
Author: Dearden, C. P.; Ropewalk Church (Knottingley, Yorkshire : Wesleyan)
The marriage register, St. Botolph’s Church, Knottingley, 1837-1897
Author: Dearden, C. P.; Church of England. St. Botolph’s Church (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Marriage registers of Christ Church, Knottingley, 1849-1931
Author: Dearden, C. P.; Church of England. Christ Church (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Marriages of Knottingley people from the register of St. Giles, Pontefract
Author: Dearden, C. P.; Church of England. St. Giles’ Church (Pontefract, Yorkshire)
Parish registers for East Knottingley, 1848-1929
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of East Knottingley (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Knottingley, 1724-1932
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Knottingley (Yorkshire)
St. Botolph’s Church, Knottingley : register of baptisms for the years 1828-1830
Author: Dearden, C. P.; Church of England. St. Botolph’s Church (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Tithes, 1719-1723
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Knottingley (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
Computer printout of East Knottingley, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Knottingley, Independent or Congregational, yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Knottingley, Yorks., Eng
Parish register printouts of Knottingley, Yorkshire, England (Independent or Congregational Church) ; christenings, 1813-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Directories ( 1 )
Knottingley, 1905
Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – History ( 1 )
The history and antiquities of Knottingley in the parish of Pontefract : with historical notices of the neighbouring villages of Birkin, Brotherton, Fryton & Ferrybridge
Author: Forrest, C.
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Maps ( 1 )
Knottingley, 1905
Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Schools ( 3 )
Infants’ admission registers, 1896-1910
Author: Weeland Road School (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Infants’ admission registers, 1910-1926
Author: Chapel Street School (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
Infants’ school admission registers, 1886-1921
Author: Knottingley National School (Knottingley, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Knottingley – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Knottingley township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Pontefract
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: New Ainsty
- Poor Law Union: Pontefract
- Hundred: Osgoldcross
- Province: York
