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England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes West Riding Halifax

For a fuller list of Halifax's churches, see A Complete List of Halifax's Chapels and Churches.

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1 Parish History
2 Resources
3 Maps and Gazetteers
4 Web sites
5 References

Parish History

Here is an 1848 historical perspective on Halifax by the famous 19th century topographer, Samuel Lewis. For a more complete overview on Halifax's numerous churches, additional parish and chapel information has been added from Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870) to supplement this (Lewis') treatise on this very large township parish (see bracketed information below in the highlighted 'parish' section of this page):

"HALIFAX (St. John the Baptist), a parish, partly in the union of Todmorden, but chiefly in that of Halifax, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York; comprising the market-town and borough of Halifax, the parochial chapelries of Elland and Heptonstall, and the townships of Barkisland, Erringden, Fixby, Hipperholme with Brighouse, Langfield, Lightcliffe, Luddenden, Midgley, Norland, Ovenden, North and South Owram, Rastrick, Ripponden, Rishworth, Shelf, Skircoat, Sowerby, Soyland, Stainland with Old Lindley, Stansfield, Wadsworth, and Warley; the whole containing 130,743 inhabitants, of whom 19,881 are in the town, 42 miles (S. W.) from York.

The borough comprises the whole of the township of Halifax, and parts of the townships of North and South Owram.

The present church is the third structure erected on the site, and some slight remains of former churches are incorporated in the building. A church dedicated to 'Holy Trinity, was built in 1798.The district church of St. James was erected in 1831. The district parish of St. Paul, King's-Cross' was opened in May 1847. Many other churches have been erected in the parish, which are described under the townships where they are respectively situated.^[1]

From Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England, on Halifax:

'The mother church, that of St. John the Baptist, stands at the east end of the town; is supposed to have been originally built, in the time of Henry III. All Souls church, or Haley hill church, noticed in our article on HALEY HILL, ranks next in interest to St. Johns. Trinity church, in Harrison lane, was built in 1795; and is a handsome Grecian edifice. St. James' church was built in 1828; St. Mary's church was built in 1869. A new cemetery was formed, in 1841, at a cost of about £5, 000; and another, at StoneyRoyd, was formed in 1861.

An Independent chapel, was built in 1857. Another Independent chapel was built in 1869. There are also three other chapels for Independents, three for Baptists, one for Quakers, one for Unitarians, two for Wesleyans, one for Primitive Methodists, two for New Connexion Methodists, one for United Free Methodists, and one for Roman Catholics.'''There are [additional] places of worship for... Methodists of the New Connexion, Unitarians, and Wesleyans...and a general cemetery for all denominations.^[2]

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records

_{AO = Archive.org}
_{FS = FamilySearch.org}
_{ANC = ancestory.co.uk (£)}
_{HATH = HathiTrust.org}
_{JMI = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk}

HALIFAX ST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH (1538) Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
AC	1538-1910	1538-1910	1538-1935	1538-1935	1538-1916	1538-1916
FS	1538-1593, 1720-1847	None	1538-1593, 1720-1837	None	Add	None
JMI	None	None	1538-1599	None	None	None
CROSS STONE PARISH (1813) Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	1813-1838		1828-1837		1828-1833
JMI	None		None		None
ANC (£)	None		None		None
HATH	None		None		None
AO	None		None		None
HEBDEN BRIDGE CHAPELRY (1833) Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	1833-1870		None		None
JMI	None		None		None
ANC (£)	None		None		None
HATH	None		None		None
AO	None		None		None
HALIFAX HOLY TRINITY CHAPELRY (1832) Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	1832-1846		None		None
JMI	None		None		None
ANC (£)	None		None		None
HATH	None		None		None
AO	None		None		None
HALIFAX ALL SOULS (NORTHOWRAM) CHAPELRY (1644) Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	1644-1837, 1843		1646-1823		None
JMI	None		None		None
ANC (£)	None		None		None
HATH	None		None		None
AO	None		None		None
HALIFAX CHRIST CHURCH CHAPELRY (1) Online Records*
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	None		None		None
JMI	None		None		None
ANC (£)	None		None		None
HATH	None		None		None
AO	None		None		None
HALIFAX OLD ST PAUL CHAPELRY (1) Online Records*
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	None		None		None
JMI	None		None		None
ANC (£)	None		None		None
HATH	None		None		None
AO	None		None		None
HALIFAX ST ANN IN THE GROVE CHAPELRY(1) Online Records*
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	None		None		None
JMI	None		None		None
ANC (£)	None		None		None
HATH	None		None		None
AO	None		None		None

HALIFAX ST JAMES CHAPELRY (1832) Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	1832-1844, 1856-1896		1837,1859,1881		None
JMI	None		None		None
ANC (£)	None		None		None
HATH	None		None		None
AO	None		None		None

BRIGHOUSE CHAPELRY (1701) Online Records