Thurgoland Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Thurgoland is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1844 from Silkstone Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Huthwaite, Crane Moor, and Coates.

Alternative names:

  • Silkstone Holy Trinity
  • Thurgoland with Coates, Crane Moor and Huthwaite

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1843
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1843

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THURGOLAND, a township-chapelry, with a village, in Silkstone parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles NNE of Wortley r. station, and 5 SW of Barnsley. It has a post-office under Sheffield.

Acres, 2,080. Real property, £6,122; of which £1,777 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,548; in 1861, 1,783. Houses, 356. The manor belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. Coal is worked; and charcoal and steel wire are made.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Silkstone. The church was built in 1842.

There are two Methodist chapels 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, Thurgoland – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Thurgoland, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Thurgoland – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Barnsley Family History Society index to 1851 census : vol. 2, Thurgoland & Cranemoor
Author: Barnsley Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Thurgoland – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Thurgoland, 1843-1864
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Thurgoland (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thurgoland, parish registers, 1843-1967
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Thurgoland (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute

Parish registers for Thurgoland, 1843-1926
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Thurgoland (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thurgoland – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Thurgoland township, 1781-1827
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

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