Stanningley Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Stanningley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1847 from Bramley Ecclesiastical Parish.

Alternative names: Leeds St Thomas, Stanningley with Rodley

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1841
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1841

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Unitarian, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Stanningley, an ecclesiastical parish, with a village on the Leeds and Halifax branch of the G.N.R., 5 miles W of Leeds, and within the boundary of the city of Leeds, W.R. Yorkshire.

It has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. Population, 5573. There are woollen factories, machine-works, an iron-foundry, and quarries.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leeds. The church was built in 1841, is in the Norman style, and consists of chancel, nave, and western tower.

There are Baptist, Free, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a Gospel Temperance mission-room; also, Liberal and Conservative clubs and an Oddfellows’ lodge.

The ecclesiastical parish includes the hamlet of Rodley in the Aire Valley, where there is a mission room

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STANNINGLEY, a chapelry, with a village, in Leeds and Calverley parishes, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Halifax railway, 5 miles W of Leeds.

It has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post-office under Leeds. Pop., 2,600. There are woollen factories, machine-works, an iron-foundry, and quarries.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. The church was built in 1841, and is in the Norman style. A second church was built in 1856, and is in the early English style.

There are five dissenting places of worship and a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Stanningley – Cemeteries ( 4 )
Monumental inscriptions of Stanningley

Monumental inscriptions of Stanningley, Wesleyan Church

Monumental inscriptions of Stanningley, Wesleyan Church

Monumental inscriptions, Stanningley, York, England, 1830-1920

England, Yorkshire, Stanningley – Church directories – Periodicals ( 1 )
The Stanningley parish magazine

England, Yorkshire, Stanningley – Church records ( 3 )
Births, baptisms and burials, 1835-1837
Author:    Stanningley Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Yorkshire)

Burials, 1835-1837
Author:    Stanningley Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Yorkshire)

Church records, 1828-1912
Author:    Baptist Church (Stanningley, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Stanningley – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Stanningley, Wesleyan Methodist, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Stanningley, Yorkshire, England (Wesleyan Methodist) ; christenings, 1827-1837
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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:    Rotherham
  • Hundred:    Leeds Borough; Skyrack
  • Province:    York