Greasbrough is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1718 from a chapelry in Rotherham Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Cinder Bridge, Parkgate, Park Gate, and Lower Haugh.
Alternative names: Rotherham St Mary
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1747
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1768
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GREASBROUGH, a village and a chapelry, in Rotherham parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on an eminence above two brooks, gear the North Midland railway, 2 miles N by W of Rotherham; and has a post office under Rotherham.
The chapelry includes also Cinder Bridge hamlet, and parts of Lower Haugh and Parkgate hamlets. Acres, 2, 329. Real property, £10, 245; of which £94 are in qualities, £2, 450 in mines, and £1, 002 in iron works. Pop. in 1851, 2, 01 7; in 1861, 2, 937. Houses, 608. The property is divided among a few.
The manor belonged, at Domesday, to the Gresbrocs; belonged, in the early part of the 14th century, to William de Tinsley; and passed to the Wegtworths. Coal and slate are extensively worked. There seems to have been a Roman settlement; and there are ruins of an ancient monastery.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £179. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church was built in 1828, at a cost of £4, 750; is in the pointed style; and has a tower.
There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Free Methodists, a national school, and charities £33.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – Cemeteries ( 4 )
Burial registers, 1900-1982
Author: Greasbrough (Yorkshire). Burial Board
Graves register for Greasbrough, 1755-1934
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
Monumental inscriptions for St. Mary’s Church, Greasbrough, Yorkshire, ca. 1750-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
[Sheffield churchyard burials]
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Greasbrough, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – Census – 1841 – Indexes ( 1 )
Greasbrough township, 1841 census index, HO107/1328, districts, 21-23 : Greasbrough, Greenside, Potters Hill, Bassingthorpe, Munsbro, Broom Riddings, White Gate, Winfield, Lap Water, Nether Haugh, New Parkgate, Cinder Bridge
Author: Gleaden, Martyn
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – Church history ( 1 )
Greasbrough Congregational Church, 150th anniversary, 1815-1965
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Greasbrough, 1768-1848
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough, parish registers, 1747-1934
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Greasbrough (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute
Greasbrough parish registers : baptisms and burials, 1747-1755, baptisms 1755-1898
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Greasbrough (Yorkshire); Stratford, Gerald Howland, 1934-
Miscellaneous assessments and accounts for Greasbrough, Yorkshire, 1572-1847
Author: Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
Parish register transcripts, 1747-1899
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Greasbrough, 1720-1917
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Greasbrough or Greasbro, Yorks., Eng
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – History ( 1 )
Greasbrough, a history
Author: Wilson, C.
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – Occupations ( 1 )
Greasborough apprenticeship indenture and bond, 1662, 1670
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Miscellaneous assessments and accounts for Greasbrough, Yorkshire, 1572-1847
Author: Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Greasbrough – Taxation ( 3 )
Land tax assessments for Greasbrough, 1781-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments, 1836-1899
Author: Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
Miscellaneous assessments and accounts for Greasbrough, Yorkshire, 1572-1847
Author: Greasbrough (Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Rotherham
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Doncaster
- Poor Law Union: Rotherham
- Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
- Province: York
