Wales, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WALES (St. John), a parish, in the union of Worksop, S. division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 10 miles (E. by S.)from Sheffield.

Wales St John the Baptist is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the Rotherham district of South Yorkshire, created in 1723 from chapelry in Laughton en le Morthen, Yorkshire Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Norwood and Bedgralve, Kiveton Park, Kiveton, and Waleswood.

The Parish church of St John the Baptist has been designated a grade II* listed building British listed building

See Wales South Yorkshire Wikipedia Kiveton Park Wikipedia

Neighboring Parishes
Beighton, Derbyshire Killamarsh, Derbyshire Harthill, Yorkshire Anston cum Membris, Yorkshire Todwick, Yorkshire Aston cum Aughton, Yorkshire

Civil Registration
For history of civil registration in this area see Worksop Registration District

Church Records
Wales parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Yorkshire Archive Service.

Census records
See Yorkshire Census

Parish Records
This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1579.

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue and the films in their collection.

Poor Law Unions
Worksop Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire