Beverley Saint Nicholas, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes  East Riding  Beverley Saint Nicholas

Parish History
Beverlely St Mary with St Nicholas (1629), consists of a market-town, four parishes (see also Beverley, St John with St Martin), and the head of a Union in East Riding,Yorkshire, which includes: Aike, Eske, Molescroft, Storkhill with Sandholme, Thearne, Tickton with Hull-Bridge,Weel, and Woodmansey with Beverley-Park; Other places of worship include: Baptists, the Society of Friends (Quakers), Independents, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists, and Roman Catholic.

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 parish registers of Beverley St Mary and St Nicholas exist 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.

This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1882.

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.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain