Find your ancestors in Halifax St John burials

Each record comprises a transcript of the original register. The amount of information listed varies, but the records usually include a combination of the following information about your ancestor:

First name(s)
Last name
Birth year
Age
Death year
Death date
Burial year
Burial date
Relative’s first name(s)
Relative’s last name
Relationship
Address
Church
Parish
County
Country
Notes (e.g. if a pauper, cause of death)

Anonymous deaths

An entry dated 25 October, 1801 notes the burial of “Three infants of one birth” in St. John’s Church, with no further details provided.

On 20 September 1850, “A Man Unknown” was found dead in the canal.

There are a number of other records in this record set in which the deceased is unknown, many of them infants. There are 80 cases of pauper burials between 1786 and 1800, often noted simply as ‘P.’

Parish registers

In 1538, following the split with the Roman Catholic Church, it was decreed that each parish priest must keep a weekly register of baptisms, marriages, and burials. A fine was put in place for failure to comply, and from 1733, entries had to be written in English instead of Latin. Parish registers are an important resource in researching your family tree, as the census and official records of births, marriages, and deaths only go back as far as 1837, when civil registration began.

Halifax

Halifax is a Minster town, an honorific name given to certain churches in England. It lies within the metropolitan borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire. Halifax Minster is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

Included in these records are Yorkshire and Yorkshire (West Riding). Yorkshire is a historic county in Northern England, the largest in Britain. The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of three historic subdivisions of the county.

Parish	Date range
Brighouse	1831-1865
Coley	1734-1902
Cragg Vale	1815-1867
Cross Stone, Todmorden	1813-1851
Elland	1558-1843
Halifax	1767-1937
Hebden Bridge	1834-2007
Heptonstall	1813-1845
Illingworth, St Mary	1650-1942
Lightcliffe	1704-1975
Luddenden, St Mary	1653-1933
Rastrick	1812-1869
Southowram	1818-1854
Sowerby Bridge, Christ Church	1821-1980
Stainland	1785-1840