Shipley cum Heaton Yorkshire Family History Guide

Shipley cum Heaton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1828 from Bradford St Peter Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Shipley Fields, Saltaire, Moorhead, Moor Head, Heaton Royds, and Heaton.

Alternative names: Shipley, Bradford St Paul

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1826
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1826

Nonconformists include: Baptist, General Baptist, Methodist, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

• Bingley
• Manningham St Paul
• Wilsden cum Allerton
• Calverley
• Bradford Christ Church
• Baildon

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SHIPLEY, a town, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in the parish and district of Bradford, W. R. Yorkshire.

The town stands on the river Aire, on the Bradford, Skipton, and Colne railway, near the junction of the railway thence to Leeds, and near the junction of the Leeds and Liverpool canal with the Bradford canal, 3¼ miles NN W of Bradford; is irregularly built, and of uninteresting appearance; has undergone many recent improvements, under a local board of health; carries on worsted manufacture in several mills; and has a post-office under Leeds, a r. station with telegraph, a lecture hall, a large church of 1826, a handsome Baptist chapel of 1866, a neat Moravian chapel of 1868, three Methodist chapels, and national schools.

The township contains also Saltaire, Moorhead, Shipley-Fields, and part of Heaton-Royds. Acres, 1,140. Real property, £26,004; of which £345 are in mines, £210 in quarries, and £1,407 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 3,272; in 1861, 7,100. Houses, 1,357. The increase of pop. was mainly at and around Saltaire. S. Hall is the seat of T. Arton, Esq.; and several neat residences are at Victoria Park.

The chapelry was constituted in 1826, and reconstituted in 1865. Pop., 6,773 The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £350. Patrons, Simeon’s Trustees.

The sub-district consists of the townships of S. and Heaton. Acres, 2,436. Pop., 8,773. Houses, 1,704.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Cemeteries ( 9 )
Monumental inscriptions in Yorkshire
Author: Gardner, David Ensign, 1915-2007

Monumental inscriptions of Shipley

Monumental inscriptions of Shipley Cemetery

Monumental inscriptions of Shipley, Wesleyan Church

Monumental inscriptions of St. Paul, Shipley, Yorkshire, England
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. British Mission

Monumental inscriptions of the Wesleyan Chapel, Shipley, Yorkshire, England
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. British Mission

Monumental inscriptions of Wesleyan Church, Shipley

Monumental inscriptions, Shipley (St. Pauls), York, England, 1840-1920

Shipley St. Paul’s churchyards and Hirst Wood burial ground registers and monumental inscriptions : transcripts of burial & grave registers and of monumental inscriptions from 1826
Author: Bradford Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Centennial celebrations, etc. ( 1 )
Hall Royd Methodist Church 1887-1987
Author: Raine, Donald P.

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Church history ( 1 )
Hall Royd Methodist Church 1887-1987
Author: Raine, Donald P.

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Church records ( 12 )
Births and baptisms of Shipley, Yorkshire, parish of Bradford, Wesleyan Church, 1813-1837
Author: Providence Chapel (Shipley, Yorkshire : Wesleyan)

Bishop’s transcripts for Shipley, 1826-1844
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Shipley (Yorkshire)

Church records, 1823-1837
Author: Shipley Circuit (Yorkshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

Church records, 1759-1870
Author: Bethel Chapel (Shipley, Yorkshire : Baptist)

Church records, 1838-1878
Author: Shipley Wesleyan Methodist Circuit (Yorkshire)

Church records, 1840-1960
Author: Low Lane Methodist Chapel (Shipley, Yorkshire)

Church records, 1876-1896
Author: Springwood Chapel (Shipley, Yorkshire : Congregational)

Church records, 1878-1940
Author: Providence Wesleyan Methodist Church (Shipley, Yorkshire)

Church records, 1880-1900
Author: Shipley Congregational Church (Yorkshire)

Church records, 1893-1938
Author: Windhill Wesleyan Methodist Mission (Yorkshire)

A Register of children in the township of Shipley in the parish of Bradford, 1774-1858

Shipley St. Paul’s churchyards and Hirst Wood burial ground registers and monumental inscriptions : transcripts of burial & grave registers and of monumental inscriptions from 1826
Author: Bradford Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Church records – Indexes ( 5 )
Computer printout of Shipley, Low Lane Methodist, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Shipley, Providence Chapel Wesleyan, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Shipley, Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Shipley, York, England (Wesleyan Church, Providence Chapel), christenings, 1831-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Computer printout of Shipley, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Civil registration ( 1 )
A Register of children in the township of Shipley in the parish of Bradford, 1774-1858

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Directories ( 3 )
The Post Office Bradford directory : comprising the area of the Bradford postal district and part of the Shipley postal district

The Post Office Bradford directory : comprising the area of the Bradford postal district and the Shipley postal district

The Post Office Bradford directory : the Bradford postal directory [including] Shipley and Idle postal districts

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – History ( 2 )
Shipley, a look at the past
Author: Burrows, Dorothy

Village to mill town : Shipley and its society, 1600-1870
Author: Sheeran, George

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Maps ( 1 )
Leeds & Bradford including Halifax & Brighouse : A1 easy read street atlas

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Officials and employees ( 1 )
Town records, ca. 1688-1846
Author: Shipley (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Town records, ca. 1688-1846
Author: Shipley (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Postal and shipping guides ( 3 )
The Post Office Bradford directory : comprising the area of the Bradford postal district and part of the Shipley postal district

The Post Office Bradford directory : comprising the area of the Bradford postal district and the Shipley postal district

The Post Office Bradford directory : the Bradford postal directory [including] Shipley and Idle postal districts

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Public records ( 1 )
Town records, ca. 1688-1846
Author: Shipley (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Shipley – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Shipley township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Town records, ca. 1688-1846
Author: Shipley (Yorkshire)

Administration

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