Northallerton, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Northallerton All Saints is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Yorkshire. Deighton, Yorkshire is a chapelry of Northallerton. Other places in the parish include: Romanby and Bank Head.

The market town and civil parish of Northallerton's history as the site of a Priory and development of the civil parishes of Romanby (near Northallerton),Yorkshire Brompton (near Northallerton), Yorkshire Deighton, Yorkshire High Worsall, Yorkshire are described at Northallerton Wikipedia

The parish church of All Saints has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

The Congregational chapel dating from 1819 and now known as the Zion United Reformed Church has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

NORTHALLERTON (All Saints), a borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the wapentake and liberty of Allertonshire, N. riding of York; comprising the chapelries of Brompton, Deighton,and High Worsall, and the townships of Romanby and Northallerton; and containing 5273 inhabitants, of whom 3092 are in the town, 32 miles (N. W. by N.) from York,and 224 (N. N. W.) from London.

Civil Registration
Records from the Northallerton registration district held at the North Yorkshire Registration Service are 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
Online data content from chapelry registers of Northallerton exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

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.

See Bishop's Transcripts references in Durham Bishop's Transcripts: The Howe Manuscript Collection

Records are also available at the North Yorkshire County Record Office.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

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.

Poor Law Unions
Northallerton Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

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