Mytholmroyd Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Mytholmroyd is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1840 from Halifax St John the Baptist Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Halifax St Michael

Parish church: St Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1844
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1849

Nonconformists include:  Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

View Location on UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey (1:1 million-1:10,560), 1900s – Full Screen

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MYTHOLMROYD, a village and a chapelry in Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands on the river Calder., the Rochdale canal, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 5 miles W of Halifax; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Manchester.

The chapelry was constituted in 1846. Pop. in 1861, 3,063. Houses, 683. The property is much subdivided. Wadsworth is the seat of W. Sutcliffe, Esq; and White-lee House, of D. J. Crossley, Esq. There are several cotton mills.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847; is in the early decorated English style; and has a tower and low spire.

There are a Wesleyan chapel 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, Mytholmroyd – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Mytholmroyd Weslyan Church : monumental inscriptions
Author:    Johnys, Barbara; Brambles, Terry; Wilde, Margaret

St. Michael’s, Mytholmroyd, monumental inscriptions
Author:    Brambles, Terry

England, Yorkshire, Mytholmroyd – Church records ( 3 )
Births, baptisms and burials of Mytholmroyd, Wesleyan Church, 1806-1837
Author:    Wesleyan Church (Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Mytholmroyd, 1847-1866
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Mytholmroyd (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Mytholmroyd, 1844-1912
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Mytholmroyd (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Mytholmroyd – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Mytholmroyd, Wesleyan Methodist, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England (Wesleyan Methodist Church) ; christenings, 1803-1837
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Todmorden
  • Probate Court:    Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese:    Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery:    Pontefract
  • Poor Law Union:    Halifax
  • Hundred:    Morley
  • Province:    York