nonconformist register of baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths Northowram or Coley Register

NONCOFORMIST REGISTER, ALSO KNOWN AS THE NORTHOWRAM REGISTER because Heywood, 1629-1702, moved there in around 1656. Oliver Heywood, Trinity College Cambridge. Minister of Halifax 1652, He was excommunicated for his beliefs. First edition published by Brighouse in 1881 Includes illustrations. Full title the Non-Conformist register of Baptisms, Marriagtest, and Deaths (Yorkshire) Generally knows as Northowram or Coley Register. Brighouse, Northowram and Coley are small communities in west Yorkshire. Lists of Popish recusants, Quakers etc. Quakers etc. Declaration of Indulgencies. Green boards with incuse gilt and black decoration. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 300 pages. The publisher issued a 4-page pamphlet announcing the publication of the book: You also get that leaflet when you buy the book

Nonconformists were people who did not belong to the established church. In England, up until 1533, this meant the Catholic Church, but that then changed when in 1559 the Act of Uniformity made the Church of England the established church. Thus from 1559, the starting point for this research guide, all non-Anglicans were nonconformists. Though Catholics, as well as Jews, were nonconformists, references to nonconformists in this guide are to the non-Anglican Protestant denominations, most prominently Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and Quakers.

Nonconformist records were therefore records kept by non-Anglican churches or other congregations that recorded details of people who did not belong to the Church of England. Although nonconformist records are, by definition, non-parochial records it should not be assumed that all non-parochial records are necessarily records of nonconformists. Non-parochial records, of which there are a considerable number in the RG collections highlighted below, were registers kept outside of the local parish church but these were not necessarily records of non-Anglicans. Some Church of England records existed outside of the usual parish structure, such as those maintained by Greenwich Hospital.