Whitley Lower Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Whitley Lower is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1848 from Thornhill Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Grange Moor, Briestwhistle, and Briestfield.

Alternative names: Thornhill St Mary and St Michael, Lower Whitley

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1846
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1848

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WHITLEY (Lower), a township-chapelry, with a village and three hamlets, in Thornhill parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 2¼ miles SE of Thornhill r. station, and 5½ SW of Wakefield. Post town, Thornhill, under Dewsbury. Acres, 1,011. Real property, £5,246; of which £1,320 are in mines. Pop., 1,042. Houses, 202. Carpet manufacture and tanning are carried on. The Living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of R. The church is good: and there is a parochial school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Use for:
England, Yorkshire, Whitley (Lower)

England, Yorkshire, Lower Whitley – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Kirklees census returns index : Lower and Upper Whitley, 1851
Author:    Dewhirst, John; Whitwam, Stephen David; Huddersfield & District Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Lower Whitley – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Lower Whitley, 1846-1889
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Lower Whitley (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Lower Whitley, 1846-1920
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Lower Whitley (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Lower Whitley – Schools ( 1 )
Infant school admission register, 1907-1925
Author:    Lower Whitney Church of England School (Yorkshire)

Administration

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