Thorne, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Thorne St Nicholas is is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Bradholme, Ditchmarsh, Hangman Hill, Waterside, Moor Ends, Quay, and Levels.

The parish church of St Nicholas has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

THORNE (St. Nicholas), a market-town and parish,and the head of a union, in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 29 miles (S. by E.) from York, and 165 (N. by W.) from London.

See also Thorne South Yorkshire Wikipedia

Neighboring Parishes
Part of the parish boundary forms the County Boundary with Eastoft, Lincolnshire and Crowle, Lincolnshire

Church records
Thorne 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.

Civil registration
This parish was part of the Thorne registration district from 1837-1947 when it became part of the Don Valley registration district. Thorne registration district

Primary registration of births, marriages and deaths took place at the Doncaster registration district has been 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

Parish Records
This ancient parish was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1565.

There is a transcript of Thorne, Yorkshire Marriages 1565-1679 in the publication of Family History The Bi-MonthlyJournal of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies August 1970 Vol 5 Nos. 32/33 New Series Nos 8/9 pages 236-261. Familysearch catalog to this journal

Poor Law Unions
Thorne Poor Law Union, Yorkshire