Milnsbridge Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Milnsbridge is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1846 from Almondbury Ancient Parish.

Alternative Names: Almondbury St Luke, Milns Bridge

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1844
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MILNSBRIDGE, a chapelry partly in Longwood township, chiefly in Linthwaite township, Almondbury parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Huddersfield, Sheffield and Holmfirth railway, in the southern vicinity of Huddersfield. It was constituted in 1846; and its Post town is Huddersfield. The acreage is returned with the parish. Rated property, £7,667. Pop., 2,903. Houses, 631. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury. The church has a bell turret. There are a Baptist chapel, a mechanics’ institution, and a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Milnsbridge – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Milnsbridge Baptist Church gravestone inscriptions
Author:    Ball, Kenneth; Huddersfield & District Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Milnsbridge – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Milnsbridge, 1844-1916
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Milnsbridge (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