Wakefield District Burials
- Transcription and conventions used
- Coverage
- Checking
- Grouping
- Abbreviations and codes
- Contact details
- How to buy
- Copyright
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Transcription and conventions used
This database includes information about 44,049 burials that took place in 13 parishes in the Wakefield area of Yorkshire.
The following information may be recorded for each burial, although the actual arrangement differs for the two parishes.:
- Date of burial
- Name – Surname in capitals
- Residence/Abode
- Age at death, if known
- Other – notes and information
- Parish – Church where burial took place.
- Soc. Ref. – Reference of Wakefield & D FHS Publication.
- Archive Ref. – Reference in Wakefield? Archives.
Coverage
The follow tables list the number of entries for each Church or Chapel and the range of years covered.
| Church | No. of entries | Year range |
|---|---|---|
| ALVERTHORPE ST PAULS | 1600 | 1825-1863 |
| NORMANTON ALL STS | 965 | 1679-1742 |
| OSSETT HOLY TRINITY | 5432 | 1861-1914 |
| OSSETT IND. CONG. | 265 | 1741-1835 |
| OUTWOOD ST MARYS | 4265 | 1860-1967 |
| SANDAL ST HELEN'S | 3200 | 1813-1863 |
| STANLEY ST PETERS | 1594 | 1824-1852 |
| THORNES ST JAMES | 6010 | 1831-2002 |
| THORNHILL ST MICHAELS | 11196 | 1813-1917 |
| WAKEFIELD ALL SAINTS | 3525 | 1766-1812 |
| WAKEFIELD ST JOHNS | 2955 | 1795-1827 |
| WAKEFIELD WEST PARADE CHAPEL | 2140 | 1829-1870 |
| WARMFIELD ST PETER | 902 | 1758-1812 |
| Total (13) | 44049 | 1679-2002 |
Checking.
This information is classified as fully checked.
Grouping.
There is no meaningful grouping within this database.
Abbreviations & Codes.
Where the age is not a whole number of years, y = years, m = months, w = weeks and d = days.
Contact details
For more information about the Wakefield and District Family History Society please see the web site www.wdfhs.co.uk
How to buy
The Wakefield and District FHS can provide these and other records as booklets and these can be purchased by mail order from the Society.
Copyright and disclaimer
© Trustees of the Wakefield and District Family History Society.
While every care has been taken in the preparation of the index users are advised to view the originals of the appropriate registers (or facsimiles thereof, e.g. microfilm) and to form their own interpretation. The Wakefield and District Family History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations of the registers.)
