Aberford, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Aberford, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
ABERFORD (St. Richard), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the Lower division of the wapentake of Skyrack, W riding of York, 7 miles S by E from Wetherby, and 186¾ NNW from London, on the road to Carlisle; comprising the townships of Aberford, Parlington, and Sturton Grange, and containing 1071 inhabitants, of whom 782 are in the township of Aberford. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Aberford exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

Parish registers for this ancient parish (AP) begin in 1540. The original registers of Aberford, along with the copies known as the Bishop's Transcripts, are deposited at the Borthwick Institute in the city of York.

Here is a list of records available on microfilm at the Family History Library and through family history centers.

Neighboring Parishes
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options, and click on List contiguous parishes.

The GENUKI: Church Database is also helpful in determining the names of the churches in the area. By typing the name of the parish, a list will show the names and denominations of other churches in a selected radius.

Non-conformist churches
Non-conformist churches at Aberford included a Roman Catholic church and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. Catholic records are on microfilm at the Family History Library as follows:

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain