Arden, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes, A-I  North Riding of Yorkshire  Arden

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

Parish History
ARDEN with Ardenside, a township, in the parish of Hawnby, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Birdforth, North Riding of Yorkshire, 8 miles (N. W. by W.) from Helmsley; containing 137 inhabitants.

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 Hawnby 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 Hawnby to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Hawnby page.

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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non-conformist 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 FamilySearch Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Helmsley 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