Culture: Libraries, Archives and Information
Family History Guide 8
Roman Catholic Registers
© Sheffield Libraries Archives and Information (updated to Jul 2009)
Front cover illustrations – left to right:
St Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church, Burngreave Road, Sheffield, c. 1930
(Sheffield Local Studies Library: Picture Sheffield t00818)
Catholic Apostolic Church, Victoria Street, Sheffield, c. 1980
(Sheffield Local Studies Library: Picture Sheffield t00818)
The Pieta at the Convent of Notre Dame, Oakbrook, c. 1920
(Sheffield Local Studies Library: Picture Sheffield t00818)
Introduction:
The Catholic Diocese of Hallam was established in 1980 by the division of the
Dioceses of Leeds and Nottingham. It covers the county of South Yorkshire,
parts of the High Peak and Chesterfield Districts of Derbyshire, and the
District of Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire. Sheffield Archives is appointed as
the Diocesan Record Office.
Access to Roman Catholic registers of birth / baptism, marriage and death /
burial are restricted for 50 years. Please refer to Sheffield Archives for advice
on how to access the restricted items.
Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Details
Ref
Armthorpe
Our Lady of Sorrows
and St Francis with
St Thomas of
Canterbury, Kirk
Sandall
[Marriages 1959 to date are at the church]
Cath 30
Askern
Blessed English
Martyrs
[Baptisms 1953 to date,
Marriages 1953 to date,
Deaths 1958 to date are at the church]
Cath 44
Baptisms 1857 - 1946
Index of Baptisms 1857 - 1946
Marriages 1853 - 1962
Deaths 1857 - 1992
Confirmations 1855 - 1887
Cath 10
Balby see
Doncaster
Barnsley
Holy Rood
Barnsley
St Joseph and the
Blessed English
Martyrs, Kendray
Bentley
Our Lady of
Perpetual Help
Baptisms 1941 - 1962
[Marriages 1941 to date are at the
Presbytery]
[Baptisms 1946 to date,
Marriages 1958 to date are at the church]
Cath 9
Cath 32
Baptisms 1886 - 1935
Burghwallis
St Helen
Cantley
St Paul
[Marriages 1970 - 1990 are at Askern
Church
[Baptisms 1959 to date,
Marriages 1959 to date,
Deaths 1960 to date are at the church]
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Cath 54
Cath 39
Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Chesterfield, The
Annunciation,
Spencer Street
Chesterfield
St Hugh of Lincoln,
Newbold
Cudworth
St Mary Magdalene
Details
Baptisms 1737 - 1755, 1818 - 1948
Indices of Baptisms 1835 - 1927
Marriages 1737 - 1755, 1851 - 1958
Index of Marriages 1912, 1918 - 1923
Deaths 1737 - 1755, 1851 - 1856, 1879 1988
Confirmations 1855 - 1958
Ref
Cath 5
[Baptisms 1964 to date,
Marriages 1966 to date,
Deaths 1967 to date are at the church]
Baptisms 1915 - 1944
Index of Baptisms 1915 -1933
Marriages 1915 - 1957
Cath 40
Cath 16
[Deaths 1960 to date are at the church]
Deepcar, St Ann
Baptisms 1875 - 1949
Marriages 1897 - 1964
Cath 13
[Deaths 1960 to date are at the church]
Denaby Main
St Alban
Baptisms 1894 - 1946
Marriages 1899 - 1918
Cath 17
[Deaths 1937 to date are at the church]
Dinnington
St Joseph
[Baptisms 1981 to date,
Marriages 1965 to date,
Deaths 1982 to date are at the church]
Cath 18
Doncaster
St Peter in Chains,
Chequer Road
Baptisms 1835 - 1949
Marriages 1835 - 1949
Deaths 1835 - 1977
Confirmations 1863 - 1956
Cath 7
Doncaster, Church
of the Sacred Heart,
Balby
[Baptisms 1954 to date,
Marriages 1956 to date,
Deaths 1960 to date are at the church]
Cath 46
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Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Doncaster
Our Lady of Mount
Carmel and St Mary
Magdalene,
Wheatley Hills
Details
Ref
[Baptisms 1948 to date,
Marriages 1983 to date,
Deaths 1983 to date are at the church]
Cath 43
[Baptisms 1961 to date,
Marriages 1962 to date,
Deaths 1962 to date are at the church]
Cath 33
Doncaster see also
Bentley, Cantley
and Woodlands
Dronfield
Holy Spirit
Eckington see
Spinkhill
Edlington
St Mary
Baptisms 1933 - 1948
Marriages 1934 - 1975
Cath 19
[Deaths 1959 to date are at the church]
Goldthorpe, Church
of the Sacred Heart
Baptisms 1909 - 1957
Marriages 1910 - 1955
Cath 8
[Deaths 1935 to date are at the church]
Grimethorpe
St Paul
[Baptisms 1952 to date,
Marriages 1952 to date,
Deaths 1952 to date are at the church]
Cath 37
Baptisms 1870 - 1881
Handsworth
St Joseph
[Marriages 1887 to date are at the church]
Deaths & Burials 1923 - 1977
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Cath 50
Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Details
Ref
Hathersage
St Michael the
Archangel
[Baptisms 1822 - 1872 are at Derbyshire
Record Office.
Baptisms 1867 to date,
Marriages 1854 to date,
Deaths 1868 to date are at the church]
Cath 49
High Green, St
Mary
Baptisms 1896 - 1935
Marriages 1902 - 1947
Deaths & Burials 1887 - 1955
Cath 47
Hillsborough see
Sheffield
Hoyland
Sacred Heart and St
Helen
Baptisms 1864 - 1946
Marriages 1870 - 1952
Deaths and Burials 1898 - 1967
Burials and cremation Certificates 1940 2007
Cath 55
[Burials, list of graves 1898 - 1976 are at the
church]
Kendray see
Barnsley
Kimberworth
The Forty Martyrs
[Baptisms 1971 to date,
Marriages 1977 to date,
Deaths 1977 to date are at the church]
Cath 34
Maltby
St Mary Magdalene
Baptisms 1912 - 1937
Marriages 1914 - 1955
[Deaths 1943 to date are at the church]
Cath 15
Masbrough see
Rotherham
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Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Moorends
St Joseph and St
Nicholas
Details
Ref
Baptisms 1908 - 1947
[Marriages 1927 to date,
Deaths 1959 to date are at the church]
Cath 29
Mortomley see
High Green
New Whittington
St Patrick
Marriages 1948 - 1978
Cath 53
Newbold see
Chesterfield
Oldcotes
St Helen
Baptisms 1862 - 1920
Marriages 1875 - 1964
Cath 35
[Deaths 1964 to date are at the church]
Padley Chapel see
Hathersage
Penistone
St Mary see
Deepcar
Rawmarsh
St Joseph
[Baptisms 1938 to date,
Marriages 1939 to date,
Deaths 1939 to date are at the church]
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Cath 42
Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Details
Ref
Retford
Convent Chapel
(included in St
Joseph’s register,
Cath 31)
Baptisms 1900 - 1901
Deaths 1901
Cath 31
Retford
St Joseph
Baptisms 1877 - 1878, 1895 - 1945
Marriages 1877 - 1878, 1895 -1935
Deaths 1877 - 1878, 1895 - 1926, 1934 1937
Confirmations 1877 - 1878, 1895 - 1926
Cath 31
Baptisms 1930 - 1939
Rossington, Christ
the King
Rotherham
St Bede, Masbrough
[Marriages 1930 to date,
Deaths 1930 to date are at the church]
Cath 38
Baptisms 1845 - 1944
Marriages 1849 - 1974
Deaths 1864 - 1993
List of people interred 1862 - 1984
Cath 6
Baptisms 1840 - 1951
Index to Baptisms 1783 - 1828 (TI34/1)
Marriages 1844 - 1942
Index to Marriages 1844 - 1942 (TI34/2)
Banns 1854 - 1970
Deaths 1960 - 1984
Cath 1
Rotherham see also
Kimberworth
Sheffield
Cathedral Church of
St Marie, Norfolk
Row
Sheffield
Baptisms 1879 - 1942
Mother of God and
St Wilfrid, Abbeydale [Marriages 1893 to date,
Road
Deaths 1949 to date are at the church]
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Cath 27
Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Sheffield
Our Lady of
Beauchief and St
Thomas of
Canterbury,
Meadowhead
Sheffield
The Sacred Heart,
Hillsborough
Sheffield
St Catherine of
Alexandria,
Burngreave
Sheffield
St Charles
Borromeo, Attercliffe
Details
Baptisms 1910 - 1948
Marriages 1910 - 1943
Ref
Cath 20
[Deaths 1911 to date are at the church]
Baptisms 1904 - 1917
Marriages 1920 - 1954
Cath 3
[Deaths 1946 to date are at the church]
Baptisms 1876 - 1940 with indexes
Marriages 1879 - 1951
Deaths 1959 - 1983
Cath 48
Baptisms 1867 - 1930
Marriages 1870 - 1936
Cath 14
[Deaths 1960 to date are at the church]
Confirmations 1868 - 1966
Deaths 1968 - 1969 (2 entries)
Sheffield, St Francis
of Assisi, Crosspool [Baptisms 1968 to date,
Marriages 1969 to date are at the church]
Cath 45
Sheffield
St Michael’s
Cemetery, Rivelin
Glen see Sheffield,
St Vincent
Sheffield
St Oswald, Wybourn
[Baptisms 1948 to date,
Marriages 1955 to date,
Deaths 1959 to date are at the church]
Cath 21
Sheffield
St Patrick, Lane Top
Baptisms 1930 - 1948
[Marriages 1931 to date,
Deaths 1960 to date are at the church]
Cath 22
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Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Details
Ref
Sheffield
St Theresa of the
Child Jesus, Manor
Baptisms 1930 - 1950
[Marriages 1939 to date,
Deaths 1960 to date are at the church]
Cath 23
Sheffield
St Thomas More,
Wordsworth Avenue
[Baptisms 1945 to date
Marriages 1948 to date,
Deaths 1959 to date are at the church]
Cath 24
Sheffield
St Vincent, Solly
Street
Baptisms 1853 - 1949
Marriages 1857 - 1913, 1951 - 1996
Bans 1853 - 1854
Deaths 1961 - 1966
Cath 2
Sheffield
St Michael’s
Cemetery, Rivelin
Glen
Burials 1862 - 1995
ROM
Sheffield
St William, Lee Croft
(closed)
Baptisms 1866 - 1870
Marriages 1870
Cath 4
Sheffield
St William of York,
Ecclesall Road
[Baptisms 1932 to date,
Marriages 1930 to date,
Deaths 1960 to date are at the church]
Cath 56
Sheffield
St Wilfrid, Shoreham
Street see
Sheffield, Mother of
God and St Wilfrid
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Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Details
Ref
[Baptisms 1792 -1860,
Marriages 1797 - 1802, 1847 - 1860,
Deaths 1795 - 1829, 1861 - 1875,
Burials 1835 – 1860 are at Derbyshire
Record Office]
[Baptisms 1896 to date,
Marriages 1852 - 1854 and 1896 to date,
Deaths 1901 to date are at the church]
Cath 58
[Baptisms 1930 to date,
Marriages 1932 to date,
Deaths 1959 to date are at the church]
Cath 57
Staveley
St Joseph
Baptisms 1884 - 1942
Marriages 1888 - 1948
Deaths 1884 - 1930
Cath 52
Swallownest
St Martin de Porres
Baptisms 1973 - 1984
Cath 51
Spinkhill
The Immaculate
Conception
Spinkhill
The Immaculate
Conception see also
Chesterfield, The
Annunciation
Stainforth
Our Lady of the
Assumption
Stannington see
Sheffield, St
Vincent
Thrybergh
St Gerard
Baptisms 1912 - 1932
Deaths and Burials 1914 - 1943, 1967, 1969
- 1985
Cath 25
[Marriages 1914 to date are at the church]
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Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Church
Wath Upon Dearne
St Joseph
Details
Ref
Baptisms 1877 - 1941
Marriages 1883 - 1978
Cath 12
[Deaths 1941 to date are at the church]
Confirmations 1881 - 1957
Wheatley see
Doncaster
Wickersley
Blessed Trinity
[Baptisms 1961 to date,
Marriages 1962 to date,
Deaths 1985 to date are at the church]
Cath 36
Wingerworth see
Chesterfield
Woodlands
St Joseph and St
Teresa
Wombwell
St Michael and All
Angels
Baptisms 1927 - 1938
[Marriages 1927 to date,
Deaths 1956 to date are at the church]
Baptisms 1903 - 1936
Marriages 1918 - 1969
Cath 41
Cath 11
[Deaths 1941 to date are at the church]
Worksop
St Joseph
[Baptisms 1972 to date,
Marriages 1972 to date,
Deaths 1975 to date are at the church]
Cath 26
Worksop
St Mary
Baptisms 1772 - 1927
Marriages 1856 - 1961
Deaths 1856 - 1917
Burials 1856 - 1917
Confirmations 1774 - 1852, 1859 - 1932
Cath 28
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Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
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Sheffield Archives
Roman Catholic Registers
Sheffield Local Studies Library
1st floor
Central Library
Surrey Street
Sheffield
S1 1XZ
Sheffield Archives
52 Shoreham Street
Sheffield
S1 4SP
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