Birstall Topic List
The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available. Please feel free to add or update with any additional information. |
Bagshaw Museum Collection c.1664-1908 of Batley and Birstall deeds and other papers, including deeds 1687-1850 re Dickson of Batley, Chadwick of Birstall, Crowther of Gomersal, Fearnley and Spedding of Birstall, Akeroyd of Havercroft, Sykes of Dunningley, Hemingway of Batley, and Bedford of Brockholes; Batley and Birstall Wesleyan Circuits plans 1827-1828 and 1876-1877; notebook of Joseph Briggs of Batley, c.1731-1848; letters patent appointing William Osgoode as Chief Justice of Upper Canada 1792 KC82
Clara Barraclough, Birstall, notebook containing historical information
mainly re Birstall, compiled c1901-1902
KC544
Batley Borough and West Riding County Council, file re the Old Hall,
Birstall, preservation, listing, and inquiry 1964-1966
KA173
Batley Local Board and Borough, records 1856-1962 including Birstall Gas
Light Company, stock transfers 1865-1873; Birstall UDC, agreements re
public works 1878-1937
KA123
Battye and Firth, solicitors, Birstall, records 1782-1847 including
correspondence and lists of voters in Batley, Birkenshaw, Birstall,
Cleckheaton, Drighlington, Gildersome, Gomersal, Heckmondwike, Liversedge,
Morley, Oakenshaw, Scholes, and Wyke, at Yorkshire elections 1806-1807
KC496
H S Bentley, 'The Bentleys of Birstall', extracts from parish registers
1600-1800
YAS, MS1283
Birkenshaw, Birstall and Gomersal, survey (photocopy) 1839
KX173
Birstall, account of moduses due in lieu of tithe hay in parish 1776
YAS, MS741
Birstall, deeds 16-19 cent
YAS, MD44, MD138, MD174, MD193, & MD213
Birstall, deeds 1637-1822
WYAS: Leeds, accession 1299
Birstall, deeds 17-20 cent
WYAS: Bradford, 47D75/1 & MM52
Birstall, deeds to property called Fox Hall 1770-1852
WYAS: Leeds, accession 3251
Birstall and Gildersome, deeds and probates 1811-1929
WYAS: Leeds, accession 3351
Birstall, plans by Butler and Illingworth of estates belonging to Trinity
College, Cambridge 1882
WYAS:Wakefield HQ, C336
Birstall, miscellaneous wills 1790-1830
DD/ZC
Birstall and Birkenshaw Methodist Circuit and chapels, records 1782-1990
includes Birstall circuit (W); Birstall Mount Tabor circuit (UMFC);
Birkenshaw and Gomersal circuit (UMFC); Birstall and Birkenshaw circuit;
Birstall St Johns (W), Birstall Mount Tabor (UMFC), Birstall Mount Top
(W), Birstall, Birkenshaw Bradford Road (UMFC), Birkenshaw Bottoms Mission
(UMFC), Birkenshaw Old Lane (W), Drighlington Trinity (W), Gomersal West
Lane (W), Gomersal West View (UMFC), Gomersal, Hightown St Johns (W),
Holderclough (W), Tong Westgate Hill(W)
WYAS: Wakefield C87 (see also C25, C294 & C863)
Birstall and Birkenshaw Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, records 1902-1977
comprising circuit schedule books 1928-1977, local preachers' minutes
1936-1963, foreign missions account book 1902-1917
KC273
Birstall Wesleyan Methodist Circuit plan 1827-1828
KC82
Birstall and Huddersfield Turnpike Trust, accounts 1802-1804
WYAS: Calderdale, RF12
Birstall District Nursing Association, minutes 1919-1948
KC146
Birstall, Fieldhead and Purlwell Playschemes, miscellaneous papers
1977-1985 including attendance registers 1977-1985
KC292
Birstall Industrial Co-Operative Society Ltd, minutes 1899-1977
WYAS: Bradford, 58D86/1/4'
Birstall Industrial Co-Operative Society Ltd, accounts and share pass
books 1860-1904
WYAS: Bradford, 42D93/1
Birstall Local Board and UDC minutes 1864-1937
BB/B
Birstall Local Board and UDC (and then as part of Batley Borough), rating
valuations 1881-1950 and rate books 1864-1952
BB/B
Birstall Mount Top Wesleyan Methodist Church, marriage register 1920-1974
NM/BL
Birstall, Oakwell Hall, deeds and papers (photocopies) 1503-1949 including
Piggott family, wills 1503-1514, Batt family, deeds, wills and inventories
1564-1706, John Mattison, steward, correspondence and accounts 1609-1611,
Fearnley family, deeds and wills 1755-1793, schedule of deeds 1914-1937,
counsel's opinion re the estate 1937, survey map 1806, history of the hall
by Percy Robinson n.d.
KX1-KX79
Birstall, Oakwell Hall Farm, deeds, maps and papers (photocopies)
1925-1972
KX80-KX91
Birstall, Oakwell Hall, copy deeds with plan 1928-1929
YAS, MD275
Birstall Old Hall Preservation Society, records 1964-1984
KC874
Birstall sick poor fund (containing Boots for Bairns) records 1951-1998
KC944
Birstall St John's Methodist Church, records 1955-1975 comprising minutes
1966-1973, financial records 1960-1975
KC273
Birstall St Peter, parish records 1558-1950 including baptisms
1558-1913, marriages 1558-1919, burials 1560-1955, churchwardens'
accounts 1718-1798; tithe maps; Birstall School records 1741, 1830-1884
WYAS: Wakefield D5 & D81
Birstall St Peter, church register of pews (photocopy) 6 January 1606
WYAS: Wakefield Z162
Bowling Iron Company, records 1647-1919 including deeds re Birstall 17-20
cent
WYAS: Bradford, BIC
Bradford Borough Council Town Clerk, papers re Birstall, Farsley and Shelf
water arbitration 1914-1917
WYAS: Bradford, BBD 1/1/126
The Brayshaw collection 1503-1944 chiefly title deeds, wills and related
papers for various places in West Yorkshire including Birstall 1653-1895
WYAS:Calderdale, BRA
Hannah Briggs (nee Heaton), Birstall, papers 1865-1995 including
correspondence, diaries, financial papers, school exercise books,
genealogical papers, papers re cookery, gardening and handicrafts,
notebooks; Batley Grammar School, magazines; Batley Girls Grammar School,
magazines; records re Grove Congregational Church, Gomersal
KC753
James Carr, attorney, Birstall, precedent books 18-19 cent
WYAS: Leeds, accession 707
John Charlesworth of Horbury, deeds 14-19 cent including some re Birstall
YAS, MD363
Clapham family, letters 1801-1869 comprising letters of George Clapham
1801-1824 and John Clapham 1843-1869; also a copy of Birstall tithe map
1848 with part of schedule extracted by Barbara Clapham 1995
YAS, MS1597
Joshua Clegg, apprenticeship indenture to James Schofield of Birstall,
clothier (photocopy) 1793
WYAS: Leeds, accession 1654
Crosland and Fenton, solicitors, Huddersfield, and successors, clients'
papers 1441-1965 including Birstall and Huddersfield Turnpike Trust
1866-1871
KC315
Douglas, Lawson and Co Ltd, engineers, Union Works, Birstall, records
1880s-1970 including financial records 1889-1945, correspondence
1900-1970, wages 1890-1915, production records 1890-1970 including
technical drawings 1902-1969
KC488
Douglas, Lawson and Co Ltd, engineers, Birstall, records 1897-1965
including correspondence, order books and files, ledgers, wage books,
purchases books and technical drawings
WYAS: Bradford, 10D76/6
George Elam, Birstall, letter to Mr Clapham, Sheffield 1842
WYAS: Wakefield Z178
Dr John Hall of Kipping, Bradford, pocket notebook 1681-1686 containing
details of visits to patients in Bradford and district including Birstall;
also prescriptions, diagnoses, costs of medicines mainly purchased from
Thomas Priestley, apothecary, Halifax; also chapel dues, taxes
WYAS: Wakefield C376
Hellewell and Sutton, solicitors, Gomersal, deeds and wills including some
re Birstall 1565-1837
DD/HS
George Hirst and Sons, mungo and shoddy manufacturers, Birstall, records
1929-1968
WYAS: Leeds, accession 1787
Howorth and Howorth, architects and surveyors, Cleckheaton, records
including sale plans 1852-1925 including some re Birstall
KC1'
Ingram family of Temple Newsam, estate records including correspondence re
Oakwell Hall, Birstall, 1594-c.1902, also inventory 1611 and steward's
accounts 1609-1612
WYAS: Leeds, TN/4
Kirklees and Wakefield Chamber of Commerce and Industry records 1853-1985
including minutes and reports for Spen Valley Chamber of Commerce
1878-1967, Batley and Birstall Chamber of Commerce 1945-1973
S/KCC & KC105
Lee and Priestley, solicitors, Pudsey, deeds 1765-1972 re property in
Birstall 1839-1972
B/LP
Leeds to Birstall Turnpike Road, papers 1823-1890
WYAS: Leeds, DB224
Leeds Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway, book of reference n.d.
re branch to Yorkshire and Lancashire Railway at Bradford, additional
lands at Bradford New Road in parish of Birstall
WYAS: Bradford, 86D77
W A Lindsay, Clarencieux King of Arms, deeds and documents 13-15 cent
including some re Birstall
YAS, MD70
Methodist Circuits, plans and directories 1958-1986 including some for
Birstall and Birkenshaw
KC362
Joseph Nussee of Birstall, bond 1732
YAS, MD326
Ellen Nussey of Birstall, letter to Mrs Abbott 1872
KC134
Ellen Nussey of Birstall, letter (unsigned and incomplete) from Charlotte
Bronte 1847 mentions Branwell Bronte and Rev A B Nicholls
KC133
Oakwell Joint Hospital Board minutes 1909-1948
BB/JB/H
Ray and Fitzroy families, deeds re estates in Yorkshire including Birstall
c.1583-1960
WYAS: Leeds, accession 4193
Rhodes family of Birstall, letter from Joshua Rhodes in America 1844
KC135
John Rhodes of Shipley, gentleman, papers re administration of his estate
and family papers 1855-1891 including abstracts of title and sale
catalogues for properties in Adwalton, Birstall, Saltaire and Shipley
1877, executors' papers 1868-1891, will of John Rhodes 1858
WYAS: Bradford, 10D76/3/114
Richardson family of North Bierley, deeds 1478-1834 including some for
Birstall
WYAS: Bradford, MM82
Sir George Savile, agreement re tithe in parish of Birstall 1769
YAS, MD94
John James Stead, Heckmondwike, antiquarian, cuttings books 1862-1919
including excursions of the Heckmondwike Antiquarian Society 1880-1883
with photographs of Oakwell Hall; Birstall and Thornhill churches; Hirst
House and Swallow Nest, Heckmondwike; Kirklees Hall; Lees Hall; New Hall,
Elland; Stainbro Hall; Liversedge Hall; Roberttown Hall; Quaker Chapel and
Middle Hall, Hightown; Paper Hall, Mirfield; Norththorpe Old Hall; and
newspaper cuttings re Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Gomersal,
Hartshead, Heckmondwike, Liversedge, Mirfield, and Savile Town
DD/JJS
Taylor, Sigston, and Booth families, Gomersal, records 1577-1937
comprising deeds and papers relating to properties in Birstall, Dewsbury,
Gomersal, Mirfield and district, and to properties in Heptonstall,
Liverpool and Middlesborough; also family papers including commonplace
book of John Taylor c.1700
KC52
Taylor family, Gomersal, records 1690-1829 including papers re Birstall
YAS, MD292
Tempest family of Tong Hall, family and estate records 14-20 cent including deeds and papers re Birstall WYAS: Bradford, TONG
Hartley Thwaite, papers 1600-20 cent consisting of notes, transcripts and
photocopies of documents and correspondence relating to Yorkshire history,
including index of Birstall parish registers 1600-1800
YAS, MS1202
Walker family, Liversedge, deeds 14-19 cent including some re Birstall
YAS, MD128
West Riding, miscellaneous deeds 18-20 cent, including deeds re Oakwell
Hall Estate, Birstall
WYAS: Wakefield C595
West Yorkshire United Methodist chapels and circuits, special trust
schedule forms 1924 re chapels in various places including Birstall
WYAS: Wakefield C352
West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, Department of Chief Executive
and Clerk, letters and maps 1985 concerning permissive footpaths in
Birstall, Normanton, and Swillington including paths alongside the Aire
and Calder Canal; the Calder and Hebble Canal, and the Huddersfield Canal
WYAS: Wakefield A142
Whitakers, mining surveyors, Birstall, maps and plans c.1854-1972
including plans of mineral workings, seams and estates at Howden Clough
1861-c.1972
KC290
Wormald family, deeds and papers including estate at Birstall 1876-1924
WYAS: Leeds, accession 2442
Yorkshire maps 1800-1849 including copy of map of south-west quarter of
a larger map (Thorpe's 'Ten Miles round Leeds') 1822-1849 which includes
Birstall
WYAS: Wakefield Z156