Preston, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1559.

PRESTON (All Saints), a parish, in an area known as Holderness in the unions of Sculcoates and Skirlaugh, Middle division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. riding of York containing the township of Lelley, 7 miles (E. by N.) from Hull. The civil parish is formed by the village of Preston and the hamlet of Salt End. Other places in the parish include: Lelleydale and Lelley. There are places of worship for Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans.

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
Preston 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 The Treasure House (location of the East Riding Archives and Local Studies Service).

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