Woodsetts, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

'''Part of this parish is in Nottinghamshire. See also Woodsetts, Nottinghamshire.'''

Parish History
Woodsetts is an Ecclesiastical Parish in Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, partly in Nottinghamshire and partly in Yorkshire; created in 1841 from Letwell with Gildingwells see Letwell, Yorkshire Ecclesiastical Parish and Wallingwells extra-parochial area.

WOODSETTS, a township, in the parish of Anston, union of Worksop, S, division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) from Worksop.

See Woodsetts Wikipedia

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.

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

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Woodsetts exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Warrington-Padgate Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Anston to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the ANSTON PARISH  page.

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.

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.

Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection.

Census records
See Yorkshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Worksop Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Jurisdictions for Parishes Beginning with W 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

Websites
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