Slaithwaite Yorkshire Family History Guide

Slaithwaite is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1718 from Huddersfield St Peter Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Lingards.

Alternative names: Huddersfield St James

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1684
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SLAITHWAITE, a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Huddersfield district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Colne, the Huddersfield canal, and the Leeds and Manchester railway, 4½ miles WSW of Huddersfield; and has a station on the railway, a post-office under Huddersfield, and two annual fairs.

The township comprises 2,320 acres, and is in Huddersfield parish. Real property, £6,424; of which £13 are in quarries, and £120 in gasworks. Pop., 2,932. Houses, 575. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dartmouth. S. Hall includes remains of the ancient manorial residence. The railway, in its course through the township, traverses two viaducts of 18 and 19 arches. Mineral baths are here, with fine gardens, amid romantic scenery: and are much frequented in summer. The woollen manufacture is carried on.

The chapelry contains also Lingards township, in Almondbury parish; and comprises 2,820 acres. Pop., 3,715. Houses, 724. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £192. Patron, the Vicar of Huddersfield. The church was partly rebuilt in 1856. There are four national schools, and an endowed school with £42 a year.

The sub-district contains also another township and a part, and comprises 10,740 acres. Pop., 7,971. Houses, 1,599.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Slaithwaite – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Register of burials, Slaithwaite Cemetery, Yorkshire, 1886-1958
Author: Slaithwaite Cemetery (Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Slaithwaite – Church history ( 1 )
Annals of the church in Slaithwaite : (near Huddersfield), West-Riding of Yorkshire, from 1593 to 1864, in five lectures, with a continuation and notes
Author: Hulbert, Charles Augustus, 1804-1888

England, Yorkshire, Slaithwaite – Church records ( 5 )
Almondbury parish church baptisms [1783-1822]
Author: Quarmby, Ernest; Ogden, Janet; Varley, Judith; Church of England. Parish Church of Almondbury (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Almondbury and its’ chapelries, 1632-1890
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Almondbury (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Honley (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Marsden (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Slaithwaite (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Meltham (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Slaithwaite, 1813-1869
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Slaithwaite (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Slaithwaite, 1679-1943
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Slaithwaite (Yorkshire)

Slaithwaite parish church baptisms
Author: Whitwam, Stephen David; Church of England. Chapelry of Slaithwaite (Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Slaithwaite – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Slaithwaite township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (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