Society Projects

Parish Record Transcriptions

The Society has projects underway to transcribe the following parish records:

• St Mary's Handsworth Burial Registers (completed to be published with other records for St Mary's Handsworth)
• St Mary's Handsworth Marriages
• St Mary's Bramall Lane Marriage Registers
• St Paul's Norton Lees Baptisms and Marriages (completed - to be published with records of Christ Church Heeley)
• Christ Church Heeley Marriage Registers (completed no publication date as yet)
• Christ Church Heeley Baptism Registers (nearing completion)
• St Peter and St Paul (Cathedral) Baptism Registers 1812-1837 (half completed)
• St Nicholas Bradfield Registers
• Ecclesfield Births to 1761
• St Thomas Brightside Registers

What information can you expect to find?
We make full transcriptions of each register entry and index the entries by surname. The detail under each entry varies according to what was recorded at the time. In the case of burial registers this covers a minimum of name, age and date of burial but

other details such as occupation, address, named relatives and even occasionally cause of death.

We have already completed a large selection of Church of England burial registers

from 1813 onwards and a number of cemetery records. Copies of these transcriptions are available for purchase on CD or microfiche (see relevant publications pages). We also offer a search service of these 270,000 records.

Census and other records

Census records

We have completed a full transcription of the 1891 Census for Sheffield and Bradfield and an index of the 1861 Census for Sheffield Rotherham and Bradfield.  These are available for purchase on CD and microfiche (see relevant publications pages).  There is also a search service. We have a continuing project to transcribe

the remaining nineteenth century census records for Sheffield.

• Transcribing of the 1851 Census for Sheffield is in progress. As sections are completed they are added to this website. See the menu under Online Indexes.

Civil registration records

We have an ongoing project to index the birth and marriage registers in the keeping

of Sheffield Register Office. The Sheffield Register Office holds records relating to all areas that fall within the boundaries of the modern metropolitan borough.  These

include registers relating to the Ecclesall Bierlow and Sheffield Registration Districts.

• Births registered between 1837-1856 have been completed and published for purchase on CD.
• Births registered from 1857-1869 (111,333 births) have been completed and published for purchase on CD.
• Work to index marriages is continuing.

Volunteers always welcome
If you would like to see more transcribed material being made available, why not consider joining our team of project volunteers.  You do not need to live locally but it is useful if you have access to a computer and /or a microfiche reader. Contact our Projects Co-ordinator Pat Swindin for more details.