Emley Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Emley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Woodhouse and Bentley Grange.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1600
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Protestant Dissenters, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EMLEY, or Elmley, a village and a township in Wakefield district, and a parish partly also in Huddersfield district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near one of the sources of the river Dearne, 3¾ miles WNW of Haigh r. station, and 7 ESE of Huddersfield; and has a post-office under Wakefield, and fairs on 25 March and 29 Sept. The township includes also the hamlets of Bentley-Grange and Woodhouse. Acres, 3, 465. Real property, £5, 858; of which £1, 200 are in mines. Pop., 1, 441. Houses, 312.

The parish includes also part of the township of Cumberworth-Half. Acres, 3, 715. Real property, with the rest of Cumberworth-Half, £9, 203. Pop., 2, 771. Houses, 573. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £422. Patron, the Earl of Scarborough. The church has an embattle tower, and is good.

There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and U. Free Methodists, and charities £24.

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

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 William Shaw, Kirkheaton, and Abigail Walkden, Emley—either place.

1630 Anthony Goodwin, Rawmarsh, and Ann Slack, Emley—either place. (His son Edward appeared at Dugdale’s Visitation.)

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

England, Yorkshire, Emley – Census ( 2 )
Census returns for Cumberworth, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Emley, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Emley – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 2 )
Kirklees census returns index : Cumberworth and Cumberworth Half, 1851
Author: Ogden, Janet; Huddersfield & District Family History Society

Kirklees census returns index : Emley, 1851
Author: Shaw, Barbara; Whitwam, Stephen David; Huddersfield & District Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Emley – Church records ( 8 )
Baptism registers, 1869-1920
Author: Pilling Lane Chapel (Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire : Primitive Methodist)

Baptism registers, 1875-1945
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Church (Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Emley, 1598-1860
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Emley (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Scisset, 1844-1857
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Scisset (Yorkshire)

Parish chest materials, 1595-1850
Author: Emley (Yorkshire)

The parish register of Emley in the county of York, 1600-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Emley (Yorkshire); Charlesworth, John

Parish registers for Emley, 1600-1922
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Emley (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Scisset, 1839-1948
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Scisset (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Emley – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Emley, Yorkshire, England

England, Yorkshire, Emley – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest materials, 1595-1850
Author: Emley (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Emley – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Cumberworth-Half township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Emley township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

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