Fulfords Ambo, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
FULFORD (St. Oswald), a parish, in the union of York, wapentake of Ouse and Derwent, East Riding of York containing the township of Fulford-Water and the township of Fulford-Gate, 2 miles S from York, on the road to Selby. Church of England records began in 1653. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

FULFORD-AMBO, a parish in York district, East Riding Yorkshire; on the River Ouse, near the Great Northern railway, 2 miles S of York. It consists of the townships of Fulford-Gate and Fulford-Water. The church was rebuilt in 1866. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 Fulford exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

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 List contiguous parishes.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

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