Aberford, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes  West Riding  Aberford

Aberford, Yorkshire family history and genealogy research page. Guide to parish registers (baptisms, christenings, marriages, and burials), civil registration (births, marriages, and deaths), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and website resources.

Parish History
ABERFORD (St. Richard), a villiage, a township, a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the Lower division of the wapentake of Skyrack, West Riding Yorkshire, 6 m. SW. of Tadcaster. The town is in the parishes of Aberford and partly in Sherburn. There is a chapelry at Micklefield, and places of worship for 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.

Online Records
Parish registers for this ancient parish (AP) begin in 1540. The orginial registers of Aberford, along with the copies known as the Bishop's Transcripts, are deposited at the Borthwick Institute in the city of York.

Here is a list of records available on microfilm at the Family History Library and through family history centers.

Non-conformist churches
Non-conformist churches at Aberford included a Roman Catholic church and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. Catholic records are on microfilm at the Family History Library as follows:

Neighboring Parishes
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 on List contiguous parishes.

The GENUKI: Church Database is also helpful in determining the names of the churches in the area. By typing the name of the parish, a list will show the names and denominations of other churches in a selected radius.

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