Archive Collections

Ecclesiastical Parishes

We hold microform or typescript copies of parish registers for most of the Church of England parishes in the Rotherham Council area. The original parish records are deposited mainly at Sheffield and Doncaster Archives. These archives act as diocesan record offices for the diocese of Sheffield. A few collections remain in their parishes. 

A few items have been deposited with us as part of estate or solicitors' collections. These include:

Overseers of the poor's accounts:

• Anston 1831-48 (ref 332-Z)
• Brampton Bierlow 1798-1823 (ref 3-P)
• Brampton en le Morthen 1826-94 (ref 313-P)
• Dalton 1727-84 (with constable's accounts) (ref 590-P)
• Greasbrough 1797-1805 (ref 150-P)
• Ravenfield 1831 (ref 530-P)

Surveyors of the Highways' accounts

• Brampton Bierlow 1811-37 (ref 3-P)
• Brampton en le Morthen 1771-1801 (ref 313-P)
• Greasbrough 1813-68 (ref 150-P)
• Ravenfield 1791-1821 (ref 63-B)
• Civil Parishes

Civil Parish Councils were set up in 1894 at the same time as urban and rural councils. They formed a smaller local democratic unit beneath the newly created urban and rural district councils. Their only statutory functions are to maintain the parish churchyard or cemetery and to provide allotments. However they also take on other functions related to their locality, such as monitoring planning applications.

The service holds records for:

• Anston (ref 449-P)
• Brinsworth (ref 457-P)
• Dalton (ref 471-P)
• Harthill (ref 53-P)
• Orgreave (ref 595-P)
• Ravenfield (ref 276-P)
• Thurcroft (ref 509-P)
• Ulley (ref 59-P)
• Wales (ref 527-P)
• Whiston (ref 206-P)
• Wickersley (ref 583-P)

These include minute books, accounts and correspondence and some copies of enclosure awards.