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We have transcribed a large number of the parish registers from across the Bradford region..
These transcriptions are available to purchase on CD or download via Genfair. A selection are available for free download on this website.
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CD 01 : Bradford Cathedral - Monuments & Memorials within the building
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Bradford Cathedral Monuments and Inscriptions within the building – Free Download
This free download is part one of a co-operative project with Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society and the staff at the Cathedral. All the memorials within the Cathedral have been photographed and transcribed. This publication is fully illustrated and searchable. Links to some other sources are provided.
CD 02 : Heaton Baptist Highgate Cemetery, Bradford – Supplement: Early graves
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The Early Graves Register which was missing when we worked on the 2008 project has appeared and its transcription forms the basis of this supplement.
Heaton Baptist Highgate Cemetery, Bradford – Supplement: Early graves – Free download
It contains over 1500 entries, dated between 1824 and 1958. Entries include name, date of burial, age at death & a grave plot reference of column/row. Every entry with a complete grave plot reference has been sorted into grave order creating a ‘grave book’. The plan of the plots has been created which also show which graves have monumental inscriptions.
CD 03 : Wilsden St Matthew’s Parish Church - Burial Ground Amendments
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St Matthew’s parish Church Burial Ground Amendments – Free download
Contains a brief history of the Church; transcriptions of the Baptism Registers (1826-1931); Banns Register (1901-1916); Marriage Registers (1826-1935); Burial registers (1827-1985) and Monumental inscriptions.
CD 04 : Bradford: Allerton, Manningham and Thornton Methodist Memorials, Burial Registers and Monumental Inscriptions
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Contains a brief history of each Chapel and transcriptions of memorials at Allerton (Prospect); Manningham Daisy Hill (Salem); Manningham Girlington; Manningham Trinity; Manningham White Abbey; Thornton Wesleyan (Bethesda); and Thornton (New Road) £10:00 + p&p CD or £8 download
CD 05 : Bradford Parish Church Burial Registers 1681-1837 (St Peter’s Church, Cathedral)
CD 06 : Bradford Parish Church Graveyard Transcriptions 2001
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Contains transcriptions of the headstones remaining in 2001 in the graveyard at Bradford Parish Church (the Cathedral), together with maps to locate each headstone.
CD 07 : Clayton, Thornton & Wilsden Municipal Cemeteries - Transcription of Monumental Inscriptions
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Contains a brief history and plans to each cemetery plus transcriptions of the monumental inscriptions.
CD 08 : Eccleshill Cemeteries: Norman Lane, St Luke’s and Chapel Street
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Contains transcriptions of Monumental Inscriptions and associated records of the only three graveyards ever to exist in the Eccleshill area of Bradford.
CD 09 : Denholme Shared Church
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Contains transcriptions of Burial Records, Memorials and Monumental Inscriptions of those churches which now form part of the Shared Partnership – Independent Chapel; Southgate General Baptist and St Paul’s Parish Church.
CD 10 : Great Horton Methodist Circuit, Bradford - Burial Records and Memorial Inscriptions from 5 Churches
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Contains transcriptions of the Burial and Grave Registers and of the existing memorial inscriptions of the burial grounds in this Circuit – Clayton; Clayton Heights; Great Horton Wesleyan; Shelf Wade House Primitive; Shelf Witchfield.
CD 10 : Great Horton Methodist Circuit - Blackburn Supplement
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This file was inadvertently omitted from Great Horton Methodist Circuit, Bradford CD-ROM
Clayton Heights Methodist Church (Dolphin): Monumental Inscriptions Blackburn Supplement, part 2.
The original of this transcription is held by Local Studies Department, Bradford Central Library.
The copyright to the transcription is held by Bradford Family History Society
CD 11 : Heaton Baptist Highgate Cemetery
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Contains background information about the cemetery; transcriptions of the registers, monumental inscriptions; and plans of the graveyard.
CD 12 : Little Lane Church, Girlington and Constituent Churches: Memorials
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Little Lane has had many names since it was built 120 years ago: Girlington Congregational School-Chapel → Girlington United Reformed Church → Heaton URC → Heaton St Andrew’s URC → Little Lane Ecumenical Partnership. This fully searchable CD consists of a brief resume of the way in which some Independent churches evolved from each other, the people who worked and worshipped there and the memorials to them. Church mergers followed and all eventually ended up at Little Lane. The churches concerned are Greenfield Congregational Church, Salem Independent/Congregational/URC, (inc Valley School, Queens Road Sunday School), Listerhills Congregational Church, Brownroyd URC, St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Girlington Methodist & Baptist Churches, Hallfield & Allerton Baptist Churches.
CD 13 : Nab Wood Cemetery & Crematorium, Shipley - Transcriptions of Monumental & Memorial Inscriptions
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Contains a brief history of the cemetery; plans and maps; transcriptions of the monumental inscriptions, memorial plaques in the Garden of Remembrance and the War Memorial.
CD 14 : Queensbury Municipal Cemetery, Bradford - Transcriptions of Monumental & Memorial Inscriptions 1905-2014
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Contains a brief history of the cemetery; plans and maps; transcriptions of monumental inscriptions (sections A, B, H and I); memorial plaques (central area and section J); and a short supplement from earlier recordings where stones are no longer apparent.
CD 15 : Roman Catholic Churches in Central Bradford
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Contains transcriptions of memorials at the churches, burial registers and monumental inscriptions for St Mary’s; St Patrick’s; St Joseph’s; St Ann’s; St Peter’s Churches and Leeds Road Roman Catholic Cemetery.
CD 16 : Scholemoor Cemetery, Bradford
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Contains a brief history of the cemetery and transcriptions of all readable Gentile, Jewish and Muslim memorial inscriptions including the Crematorium and Garden of Remembrance Memorials.
CD 17 : Shipley St Paul’s Churchyard & Hirst Wood Burial Ground
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Contains background information about the church; transcriptions of the St Paul’s burial registers; monumental inscriptions in the churchyards; Hirst Wood burial registers, Hirst Wood grave books; plans of the Hirst Wood graveyard; and Hirst Wood monumental inscriptions.
CD 18 : Thornton Old Bell Chapel - Transcriptions of the Baptism. Marriage and Burial Registers and the Monumental Inscriptions from 1678.
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Contains a history of the Chapel; transcriptions of Baptism Registers (1678-1872); Marriage Registers (1678-1754); Burial registers (1678-1975); Memoranda of burials book (1861-1909); plans of the graveyard; monumental inscriptions; and Townsend supplement of recordings made in 1912.
CD 19 : Thornton, Kipping and New Road Chapels - Transcriptions of chapel records. Memorials and monumental inscriptions
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Contains a history of each chapel; transcriptions for Kipping – Baptisms (1756-1837 & 1879-1916); Burials (1786-1978); Monumental inscriptions and transcriptions for New Road – Records from the church book; Baptisms (1867-1911); Marriages (1868-1915); Burials (1867- 1879)
CD 20 : Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford - Data from Memorial Inscriptions
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Contains a brief history and plan of the cemetery and memorial transcriptions.
CD 21 : Undercliffe St Andrew’s Wesleyan Methodist Church - Transcriptions of Memorials, Monuments and Book of Remembrance
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Contains transcriptions of the surviving memorials; previously recorded transcriptions of monuments no longer surviving; memorials within the church; and the Book of Remembrance
CD 22 : Wilsden St Matthew’s Parish Church - Transcriptions of Parish registers and Monumental Inscriptions
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Contains a brief history of the Church; transcriptions of the Baptism Registers (1826-1931); Banns Register (1901-1916); Marriage Registers (1826-1935); Burial registers (1827-1985) and Monumental inscriptions.