Aysgarth, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes  North Riding  Aysgarth



Parish History
Aysgarth (St Andrew) is an Ancient Parish in the wapentake of Hang-West, North Riding, and was formerly the largest parish in England. Other places in the parish include: Cotterdale, Carr End, Cubeck, Fossdale, Grange, Helme, High Abbotside, High and Low Blean, Litherskew, Low Abbotside, Marside, Mossdale Moor, Newbiggen, Newbiggin, Sedbusk, Shaw, Shawcote, Simonstone, Thorlaby, Thornton Rust, West Bolton, West Burton, Wether Fell, Worton, Abbots Common, Abbotside Common, Bainbridge, Birk Riggs, Bishopdale, Bow Bridge, Burton cum Walden, Cam Houses, Carn Houses, Carperby cum Thoresby, and Counterside. There are places of worship for Calvinist, Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Sandemanians, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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.

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

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding **Chapelry** and comprising the whole ancient parish of Aysgarth to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Aysgarth page.

List of Chapelry's in this Parish

 * Askrigg
 * Stalling Busk

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.

This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1709.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Bainbridge Gilbert Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

Aysgarth Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

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