Find your Sheffield ancestors, local history and details of their lives with these links to online family history and genealogy resources. There are also many records related to Sheffield within the Yorkshire collection.
Archives
- Sheffield Archives & Local Studies
- Sheffield City Archives Genealogical Index
A list of over 230,000 names with many types of records included.
BMDs & Parish Records
Sheffield parish registers from various sources.
- Baptisms and Marriages 1560–1635
- Baptisms 1635–1653
- Marriages 1635–1653
- Burials 1560–1634
- Sheffield Burial Records
Cemeteries & Graves
- Find a Grave
Has records and images from 30 Sheffield cemeteries.
- Everafter
Find graves and view headstone inscriptions from many Sheffield cemeteries.
Census & Electoral Records
- Census 1841–1921
Search the census records from 1841–1921, plus the 1939 Register all at once.
- FreeCen
A good, but not complete, selection of free records to search and view.
- Sheffield Poll Book 1832
A list of voters and the street where they lived.
- Sheffield & Handsworth 1378–9
A list of residents over 16 years of age, and who were not dependent on handouts.
Criminals & Court Records
- Sheffield Crime, Courts and Convicts 1737–1938
A collection of over 200,000 records which cover both the perpetrators of crime in and around Sheffield, and those who helped bring them to justice.
- Sheffield Police Ticket of Leave Book (1864–1874) PDF
Provides details of almost 400 convicted criminals.
- Sheffield Quarter Sessions 1880–1912
Sheffield did not have a separate court of Quarter Sessions until September 1880. Calendars of prisoners 1880–1912:
Historical Directories
- Sheffield Directory & Guide 1828
An alphabetical list of names, occupations and addresses.
- General Directory of the Town & Borough of Sheffield 1845
- Sheffield Directory 1857
Names, addresses and occupations in alphabetical order.
Local History
- GENUKI Sheffield
A free family history & genealogy resource which lists links and resources for the Sheffield area.
- Sheffield History
An active site with a popular forum related to the local history of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
- Sheffield Records Online
Provides online material free of charge to help those researching their Sheffield ancestry. Includes the full 1841 and 1851 census indexes for Sheffield, Bradfield and Ecclesfield, with work in progress on 1861.
- Picture Sheffield
Contains over 100,000 images of the city and the surrounding area from the collections held by Sheffield City Council's Archive and Local Studies Library.
- Sheffield Streets
A guide, with images, giving the origin and history of the city's central streets.
Occupations
- Lost Pubs of Sheffield
- Miners of Silverwood Archived
Dedicated to the miners of Silverwood in South Yorkshire, the site contains an A–Z list of miners who worked at the mine between 1900–1994. Includes history of the mine and the people who worked there.
Poor Law Records
Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse Register of Inmates
The Ecclesall Bierlow Union was formed in 1837 under an order of the Poor Law Commissioners. It comprised the townships of Ecclesall Bierlow, Upper and Nether Hallam, Dore, Totley, the parish of Norton, and Beauchief Liberty. The workhouse was built 1842–1843 at Cherrytree Hill to replace an old workhouse in Psalter Lane.
- 1881 Residents of Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse
- Index to Register of Inmates (Surnames A–C) PDF
Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse 1883–1907.
- Index to Register of Inmates (Surnames D–J) PDF
Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse 1883–1907.
- Index to Register of Inmates (Surnames K–R) PDF
Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse 1883–1907.
- Index to Register of Inmates (Surnames S–Z) PDF
Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse 1883–1907.
- Sheffield Workhouse Records 1700–1915
Includes admissions, examination records, removal orders, lists of able poor and settlement certificates for Bradfield and Ecclesall workhouses.
Societies & Forums
- Sheffield & District Family History Society
Aims to promote the study of genealogy and local history in the Sheffield area. There are many online searchable indexes.
Additional Records
- South Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum Patients
The names of all patients admitted to Middlewood Hospital between 1872 and 1910 have been transcribed and can be viewed online.
- Sheffield Telegraph Obituaries 1850–1970