Ackworth, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ACKWORTH (St. Cuthbert), a parish, in the Upper division of the wapentake of Osgoldcross, W riding of York, 3¼ miles SSW from Pontefract; containing 1828 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Parish registers began in 1558.

ACKWORTH, a parish in Hemsworth district, West Riding Yorkshire; 3½ miles S of Pontefract railway station. It contains Ackworth village and three hamlets. There are chapels for Quakers, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics.

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

Here is a list of church records on microfilm at the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City.

Non conformist Churches

 * Wesleyan Methodist Church


 * Ackworth is part of the Pontefract Methodist Circuit.

Neighboring Parishes
The GENUKI: Church Database is 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 the other churches in a selected radius.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Rutland 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