New Wortley Yorkshire Family History Guide

New Wortley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1851 from Wortley (near Leeds) Ecclesiastical Parish, located on Spence Lane.

Alternative names: New Wortley; Leeds St John the Baptist, Spence Lane, Wellington Road

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1851
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1851

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WORTLEY (New), a chapelry in Wortley township, Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire; suburban to Leeds, and adjoining Holbeck. Post town, Leeds. Pop., 7,334.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. 

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, New Wortley – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Cemetery registers of New Wortley Cemetery, 1863-2000
Author:    New Wortley Cemetery (New Wortley, Yorkshire)

Monumental inscriptions in Yorkshire
Author:    Gardner, David Ensign, 1915-2007

England, Yorkshire, New Wortley – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for New Wortley, 1851-1882
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of New Wortley (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, New Wortley – Directories ( 1 )
Holbeck & New Wortley, 1906
Author:    Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

England, Yorkshire, New Wortley – Maps ( 1 )
Holbeck & New Wortley, 1906
Author:    Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

Administration

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