Thorne, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Thorne St Nicholas is is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Bradholme, Ditchmarsh, Hangman Hill, Waterside, Moor Ends, Quay, and Levels.

The parish church of St Nicholas has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

THORNE (St. Nicholas), a market-town and parish,and the head of a union, in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 29 miles (S. by E.) from York, and 165 (N. by W.) from London.

See also Thorne South Yorkshire Wikipedia

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Civil registration
This parish was part of the Thorne registration district from 1837-1947 when it became part of the Don Valley registration district. Thorne registration district

Primary registration of births, marriages and deaths took place at the Doncaster registration district has been included in the online index available at Yorkshire BMD for post 1837 events; view the coverage table to check progress on the availability of index search. Marriages include


 * Church of England marriages.
 * Civil Marriages at register offices, or non-conformist churches where a registrar was required to be present at the ceremony.
 * Authorised Person marriages. These cover the non-conformist places of worship which applied to keep their own registers as a result of the Marriage Act, 1898 (bringing them into line with Jewish and Quaker marriages which had this status since 1837). In such cases an 'Authorised Person' (usually the minister or priest) recorded the ceremony instead of the registrar. Earlier weddings in these places would be included with civil marriage registers.

A secondary index of 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 however this secondary index may omit the event and may not contain the detail of the Yorkshire BMD index

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - West Riding of Yorkshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Yorkshire ($)
 * 1611-1861 Archdeaconry of Richmond, England, Church of England Marriage Bonds, 1611-1861 at Ancestry – index & images ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Parish Records
This ancient parish was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1565.

There is a transcript of Thorne, Yorkshire Marriages 1565-1679 in the publication of Family History The Bi-MonthlyJournal of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies August 1970 Vol 5 Nos. 32/33 New Series Nos 8/9 pages 236-261. Familysearch catalog to this journal

Poor Law Unions
Thorne Poor Law Union, Yorkshire