Meltham Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Meltham is a chapelry of Almondbury Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.

Alternative names: Almondbury St Bartholomew

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1669
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MELTHAM, a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in the parish of Almondbury and district of Huddersfield, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands in an open valley, under a moorland mountainous ridge, 3½ miles SW of Lockwood r. station, and 5 SW by S of Huddersfield; is a pleasant place; and has a post office under Huddersfield, and fairs on the first Saturday of April and the Saturday after 11 Oct.

The township comprises 4,525 acres. Real property, £11,675; of which £150 are in mines. Pop. in 1851,3,758; in 1861,4,046. Houses, 795. The manor is divided among five. A large proportion of the land is moor. Coal is found; and there are excellent building and flag stones. Industry is carried on in several woollen mills, two large cotton mills, dye-works, and an iron-foundry.

The chapelry is less extensive than the township. Pop., 3,456. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripen. Value, £275. Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church was rebuilt in 1786; was enlarged, and had a tower added in 1835; and is a plain stone structure. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesley an and a handsome Church school erected in 1867.

The sub-district comprises the townships of Meltham and South Crosland. Acres, 6,085. Pop., 6,840. Houses, 1,377.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Meltham – Census ( 2 )
Census returns for Bishopsoil, 1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Meltham, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Meltham – Church history ( 1 )
Meltham Methodist Church, 1819-1969 : a short history of Methodism in Meltham
Author:    Stott, Conrad

England, Yorkshire, Meltham – Church records ( 5 )
Almondbury parish church baptisms [1783-1822]
Author:    Quarmby, Ernest; Ogden, Janet; Varley, Judith; Church of England. Parish Church of Almondbury (Yorkshire)

Births and burials of Meltham, Wesleyan Church, 1820-1837
Author:    Wesleyan Church (Meltham, England)

Bishop’s transcripts for Almondbury and its’ chapelries, 1632-1890
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Almondbury (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Honley (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Marsden (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Slaithwaite (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Meltham (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Meltham, 1813-1835
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Meltham (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Meltham, 1669-1956
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Meltham (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Meltham – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Meltham, Weslayan, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Meltham, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Meltham, Yorkshire, England (Wesleyan Methodist Church) ; christenings, 1820-1837
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Yorkshire, Meltham – History ( 1 )
The history of the township of Meltham, near Huddersfield, in the West-Riding of the county of York : from the earliest time to the present
Author:    Hughes, Joseph; Hughes, Catharine

England, Yorkshire, Meltham – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Meltham 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