Available Reference Material

    Over the years I have collected a significant amount of material of particular relevance to genealogical research in the Sheffield region. Generally I can extract information from this material to assist other researchers.

    Some of the material listed below is not readily (if at all) otherwise available in this part of the world (Australia). I would be most interested to learn of complimentary collections of material available for on-line consultation.

Registers & Lists

• The Parish Register Sheffield Pt 1
  • Bapt & Marriages 1560 to 1634-5
• The Parish Register Sheffield Pt II
  • Burials 1560-1634
  • Baptisms 1635-1653
  • Marriages 1635-1653
• The Parish Register Sheffield Pt III
  • Burials 1635-1653
  • Baptisms 1653-1686
  • Marriages 1653-1686
• The Parish Register Sheffield Pt IV
  • Burials 1653-1686
  • Baptisms 1687-1703
  • Marriages 1687-1703
• The Parish Register Sheffield Pt V
  • Burials 1686-1703
  • Baptisms 1703-1719
  • Marriages 1703-1719
• The Parish Register Sheffield Pt VI 1720-1736

• DataBase of Sheffield (St Peter's) Burials 1686-1703 & 1720-1736

• Chesterfield Parish Register 1558-1600 - not indexed, but I have a searchable digital copy
• Derbyshire Feet of Fines 1323-1546
• Derbyshire Hearth Tax Assessments 1662-70
• 1861 Sheffield Census Index (Sheffield FHS) - available in searchable digital database.
• 1861 Bradfield Census Index (Sheffield FHS)
  • Part 1 hardcopy
  • Part 2 (digital data base)

• Dr. William's Library - Register of Births (Derbyshire Extracts)

• William Senior's Survey of the Estates of the First & Second Earls of Devonshire c1600-28
• Harrison's Survey of the Manor of Sheffield - 1637
• Hearth Tax -1665
• Hearth Tax - Cutlers & Smithes 1670

• A Survey of the County of Yorkshire - Thomas Jefferys 1775
• Sheffield & Rotherham Street Atlas -various years
• Old 1903-1905 O/S Maps 15" to a mile - reprints
  • Sheffield
  • Sheffield (West)
  • Sheffield (Neepsend, Owlerton & Lower Walkely)
  • Sheffield (North)
  • Sheffield Park
  • Sheffield (Heeley)
  • Attercliffe
  • Nether Edge
  • Ecclesall & Sharrow
  • Darnall

• Descriptive Catalogue of Charters, Copy Court Rolls and Deeds (forming part of the Wheat collection) - T. Walter Hall 1920

• A Descriptive Catalogue of Sheffield Manorial Records from 1424-1624, T. Walter Hall 1934

• A Descriptive Catalogue of Sheffield Manorial Records from 8th year of Richard II to The Restoration , T. Walter Hall 1926
  • Preface
  • See sample extracts

• The Fairbanks of Sheffield 1688 to 1848 T Walter Hall 1932 See Index

• A Descriptive Catalogue of The Charters, Rolls etc forming The Jackson Collection, T. Walter Hall 1934

• Sheffield Directory (Baines) 1822-3 (partial photocopy)
• Sheffield - 1845
• Sheffield Gazetteer & Directory ( William White) -1852
• Directory of Sheffield 1787- Gales & Martin (CD ROM)

• Sheffield at the Front - A Pictorial Souvenir of Local Men Serving in South Africa (Boar War - 1st (Hallre) Vol. Batt York & Lancs Regt. - Officers Mess Copy)
• Sheffield Steel - K.C. Barraclough (photocopy)

• Images of Sheffield - The Star

• Peter Harvey's Sheffield
• A Second Helping of Peter Harvey's Sheffield
• A Third Helping of Peter Harvey's Sheffield

• A Century of Sheffield 1835-1935 - David Robins - in 4 folios

• Do You Remember? folios 1? 4&5

• Made in Sheffield - Rob Steerwood & Peter Machen
• Yorkshire Miners in Camera Robert G. Neville
• Old Sharrow and Nether Edge in photographs

• The Manor and Parish of Ecclesall - Carolus Paulus
  Including the Enclosure of the Common and Waste Lands There

• How they lived in Old Ecclesall - Mary M Bramhill
• The Rural Metalworkers of the Sheffield Region - David Hey -1972
• Various Transactions of the Hunter Archeological Society
• Old Heeley: Notes Written by members of the Adult Education " Heeley's History Workshop"
  • Volumes 1 to 10 and
  • Vol 14

• Cutlery Trades - Lloyd 1913 (photocopy)
• The Sheffield Bowie & Pocket-knife makers 1825-1925
• Extracts from The Records on the Burgery of Sheffield R.E. Leader (photocopy)

• Descent of the Manor of Sheffield Stephen I Tucker (photocopy)
• Hallamshire: Survey of the Parish of Sheffield - Hunter (photocopy)

• Sheffield & Rotherham Red Book - 1898
• Sheffield & Rotherham Red Book - 1908

• Old Sheffield Town - J Edward Vickers
• Sheffield Its Story and its Achievements
• British Association Sheffield 1910
• History of the Sheffield City Battalion R.A.Sparling - 1920

• Deanery of Handsworth Sheffield - Thomas - 1932
• All Their Yesterdays (Story of Holmesfield Church) B Bunker 1973
• History of Underbank Chapel F.T. Wood 1944
• A History of the Parish of St Peter, Abbeydale Sheffield
• Park Reflections - Park Local History 1988
• 17th Century Sheffield & its Environs G Scurfield 1986 - a recreation of the lost map to Harrison's Survey (see above)

• Dark at Seven - The life of a Derbyshire Miner
• Totley and the Tunnel - Brian Edwards
• Brian Edwards Drawings of HISTORIC TOTLEY
• Where t'watter runs o'er t'weir - S. Roy Davey

• 1887-1987 Memories of Old MEERSBROOK PARK
• A History of Wadsley - H Kirk-Smith
• The Story of an Ancient Chapelry (Homlesfield Church) - B Bunker

• Derbyshire Pedigrees - Richard Clark
• Le Tall's Woodhouse
• Schooldays in Marsh Lane Village - Maureen Gray
• The Workhouse and Hospital at Nether Edge - Joan Flett
• Reminiscences of Mosborough 1886 - George Foster (photocopy)
• Further Longston Records - Dr Robert Thornhill

• Ridgway
• People and Places of the Eckington District - G.W. Shaw
• A Brief History of Eckington
• Ford and the Ford Valley - Amos Bright

• History of Old Sheffield Plate - Frederick Bradbury
• The Story of Cutlery
• Grinders & Buffers - Herbert Housley
• A Chronolgy of Cutlery - H. Raymond Singleton
• The Cutlery Industry - Peter Smithurst
• The Sheffield Knife Book - Geoffy Tweedale.