Thorpe Salvin, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Thorpe Salvin St Peter is an Ecclesiastical parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire which includes Netherthorpe and was formed in 1775 as a chapelry of Laughton en le Morthen, Yorkshire Ancient parish. The parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with Worksop St Mary and St Cuthbert, Nottinghamshire

The Parish Church of St Peter in Harthill Road has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

THORPE-SALVIN (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Worksop, S. division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 5 miles(W. by N.) from Worksop.

See also Thorpe Salvin Wikipedia

Neighboring Parishes
To find the names of the neighboring 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.

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

Church Records
Thorpe Salvin 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.

Poor Law Unions
Worksop Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire