Stainbrough Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Stainbrough is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created from a chapelry in Silkstone Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Stainbrough with Hood Green, Rotten Row and Stainbrough Folds, Stainbrough Folds, Ratten Row, and Hood Green.

Alternative names: Silkstone St James in Stainborough, Stainborough

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STAINBROUGH, a township-chapelry, with four hamlets, in Silkstone parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles ESE of Silkstone r. station, and 3 SW of Barnsley. Post town, Barnsley. Acres, 1,692. Real property, £4,436 of which £2,000 are in mines. Pop., 470. Houses, 98. The manor, with Wentworth Castle, belongs to F. W. Wentworth, Esq. A Roman settlement was here. The living is a donative in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120. Patron, F. W. Wentworth, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1841. There is an endowed school with £40 a year.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Yorkshire, Stainbrough – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Barnsley Family History Society index to 1851 census : vol. 20, Stainbrough and Wortley
Author:    Barnsley Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Stainbrough – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Stainbrough township, 1782-1831
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

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