Cumberworth, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Cumberworth is a chapelry of High Hoyland Ancient Parish and Silkstone Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Skelmanthorpe and Birdsedge.
Alternative names:
- Cumberworth with Denby Dale
- Cumberworth with Skelmanthorpe
- Cumberworth with Skelmanthorpe and Scissett
- Denby Dale
Parish church: St. Nicholas
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1700
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CUMBERWORTH, a township-chapelry in Silkstone and High Hoyland parishes, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Huddersfield and Sheffield railway, near Denby-Dale r. station, and 8 miles SE of Huddersfield.
It includes parts of the hamlets of Skelmanthorpe and Scissett; the former of which has a post-office under Huddersfield. Acres, 930. Real property, £4, 856. Pop., 2, 414. Houses, 473. The property is subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are makers of fancy goods.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £148. Patron, W. B. Beaumont, Esq. The church is Norman.
There are two Wesleyan chapels, a P. Methodist chapel, a Free Methodist chapel, and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CUMBERWORTH, a chapelry, partly in the parish of High Hoyland, and partly in that of Silkstone, wapentake of Staincross, W. riding of York, 8 miles (W.) from Barnsley; containing 1867 inhabitants.
This chapelry, which is divided into Upper and Lower, comprises 2360 acres, principally the property of T. Wentworth Beaumont, Esq.: the population is chiefly agricultural, but partly employed in the woollen and fancy manufactures.
The villages of Upper and Lower Cumberworth are both of considerable antiquity, and in the former is the chapel of St. Nicholas, an ancient building situated on a high hill.
The living is a donative, in the patronage of Mr. Beaumont. The tithes, which were commuted for 40 acres of land in 1800, at the inclosure of the commons, originally belonged to the ancestors of the patron, the Wentworths of Bretton Park, who were lords of the manor, and obtained a grant of the donative in consideration of their endowing the living with the tithes of the township. They afterwards augmented the benefice by inclosing 34 acres of land from the waste.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Paver’s Marriage Licences
It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.
1630 Thomas Whitesmith ? Wylesmith, Cumberworth, and Hesther Blacker, Darton — either place.
Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Huddersfield
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Huddersfield
- Hundred: Staincross
- Province: York