Nether Hoyland Yorkshire Family History Guide

Nether Hoyland is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1741 from a chapelry in Wath upon Dearne Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Upper Hoyland, Stubbin, Hoyland Lane End, Broadcarr, Broadcar, and part of the village of Elsecar.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1740
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1748

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HOYLAND (NETHER), a village, a township, and a chapelry in Wath-upon-Dearne parish, W. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands 1 mile E of the South Yorkshire railway, and 5 SE by S of Barnsley; is a large place; and has a station, jointly with Birdwell, on the railway, and a post-office, of the name of Hoyland, under Barnsley.

The township contains also the hamlets of Broadcar, Hoyland-Lane-End, Upper Hoyland, and Stubbin, and part of the village of Elsecar. Acres, 2, 012. Real property, £21, 978; of which £11, 550 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2, 912; in 1861, 5, 352. Houses, 1, 013. The increase of pop. arose from increase of employment in collieries, brickyards, iron foundries, and rolling mills. The extensive iron works, called the Milton and Elsecar furnaces, are here. The manor, and much of the land, belong to Earl Fitzwilliam.

The chapelry excludes a part of the township, which is within Elsecar chapelry. Pop., 3, 645. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £400. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church was rebuilt in 1830; is in the pointed style; and consists of nave and chancel, with tower and lofty spire.

There are five dissenting chapels, a mechanics’ institution, a national school, and charities £7.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Nether Hoyland – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Nether Hoyland, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Nether Hoyland – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Barnsley Family History Society index to 1851 census : vol. 21, Hoyland inc. Jump, Elsecar & Stubbin
Author: Barnsley Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Nether Hoyland – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Nether Hoyland, 1748-1864
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Nether Hoyland (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Wentworth, 1604-1856
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Wentworth (Yorkshire)

Church records for Sacred Heart and St. Helen’s Chapel, Nether Hoyland, 1864-1949
Author: Catholic Church. Sacred Heart and St. Helen’s Chapel (Nether Hoyland, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Nether Hoyland, St. Andrews, parish registers, 1916-1940
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Nether Hoyland (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute

Parish register transcripts, 1654-1913
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Wentworth (Yorkshire)

Record of members, 1886-1893
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hoyland Common Branch (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Nether Hoyland – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Hoyland Nether, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Nether Hoyland – Genealogy ( 1 )
Pedigree of Hoyland of Hemingfield of Brierley Co., York : and pedigree of Hoyland of Barley Hole, Chapelry of Wentworth, par. of Wath-on-Deane in the county of York

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Barnsley
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Doncaster
  • Poor Law Union: Barnsley
  • Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
  • Province: York