Selby, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SELBY (St. Mary and St. German), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the Lower division of the wapentake of Barkstone-Ash, W. riding of York, 14½ miles (S. by E.) from York, and 177 (N. by W.) from London. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians; and a Roman Catholic chapel.

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

Parish Records
This ancient parish was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1579.