Barnsley Family History Society

Welcome to the website of the Barnsley Family History Society.

We hope these pages will be useful to those researching their ancestors within the Barnsley area

Important Notice to visitors

This site is at present undergoing upgrading and modernisation, which may cause access problems to some areas of the site.

We will do our best to avoid any inconvenience, and hope to have the site up and running normally again as soon as possible.

Should you have any comments regarding the site, please send them to me at webmaster@barnsleyfhs.co.uk

Tom Horne, Webmaster, BFHS

Description of our Area of Interest

The Society takes a special interest in the region centred on Barnsley, extending from Thurnscoe and Goldthorpe in the East, to Dunford Bridge in the West, and from Darton in the North, to Wortley in the South.

This area includes the ancient parishes of Cawthorne, Darfield, Darton, Felkirk (including Brierley, Shafton and until 1901, Grimethorpe), High Hoyland, Hoyland Nether, Monk Bretton, Penistone, Royston, Silkstone (formerly including Barnsley), Tankersley, Worsbrough, and Wortley, these forming a part of the Archdeaconry of Doncaster.

Barnsley Family History Society Area of Interest

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