Crookes St Thomas, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Crookes St Thomas is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1848 from Sheffield St Peter and St Paul Ancient Parish; located on Nairn Street.

Other places in the parish include: Crooks Moor.

Alternative names: Crooks, Sheffield St Thomas

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1840
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CROOKS and CROOKS-MOOR, two hamlets and a chapelry in Nether-Hallam and Eccleshall-Bierlow townships, Sheffield parish, W. R. Yorkshire.

The hamlets lie adjacent to the boundary with Derbyshire, 4 miles SW of Sheffield.

The chapelry was constituted in 1849. Post town, Sheffield. Pop., 3, 452. Houses, 713. The property here is much subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value and patron not reported. The church is very good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Crookes – Church records ( 2 )
England, Yorkshire, Crookes, St. Thomas, parish register, 1840-1973
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Crookes (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute

Parish registers of Crookes, 1840-1973
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Crookes (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Crookes – Maps ( 1 )
A Map of the open fields at Crooks, and of such other intermediate lands as are likely to be exchanged for mutual convenience

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Sheffield
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Doncaster
  • Poor Law Union: Sheffield
  • Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
  • Province: York