| Source |
Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 |
Coverage
| Place |
England
Wales |
| Year range |
1567 - 1970 |
| Subject |
Church records |
Publication information
| Type |
Government / Church records |
| Publisher |
Ancestry.com |
| Place issued |
Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Surrendered to the Non-Parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857 held by The National Archives of the United Kingdom; Kew, Surrey, England |
Citation
| England. Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970. (Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Surrendered to the Non-Parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857 held by The National Archives of the United Kingdom; Kew, Surrey, England: Ancestry.com ). |
Repositories
Comments made after inspecting the volume for the Wesleyan Methodist Circuit for Holmfirth in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Piece 3065 in the series)
- The circuit covered a large geographical area stretching north to the environs of Huddersfield and south to hamlets in Penistone parish. Baptismal entries (usually with birthdate given) start in 1792 and end about 1840. Burials commence in 1814. This means that two or possibly three generations of one family may be included, even if the families moved a number of miles during that timespan. Ancestry has filmed 116 double-page images from the original handwritten register with about 10 entries on each page (more than 2,300 entries altogether).
- Much of the employment in this part of Yorkshire was in weaving, starting with hand-loom woollen weavers working at home and progressing to weaving factories (usually called "mills") processing woollen or cotton goods. The head of a household was often described as a "clothier" or a "manufacturer", but in both cases they were actually producing "cloth".
- The baptisms are not precisely in chronological order. It would appear that a clergymen filled in a group of baptisms taking place while he was present in a community (where there might not even have been a formal chapel), and then moved on to another community and made the entries for another month or so, and then on to a third location. There may be several clergymen's signatures on one two-page spread.
- Surnames keep repeating but they may represent different parts of one family. Many of the given names are those of people mentioned in the Bible.
- There are no marriages given in this volume. By law all marriages in England, except for those of Quakers and Jews, had to be performed in Anglican Churches until 1838. But this may be a worthwhile volume to investigate if you are looking for baptisms and burials in the large parishes of Almondbury or Kirkburton if you have had no success in finding entries in Anglican church records.
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