Ardsley, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Chapel History
ARDSLEY, a township and chapelry, in Darfield parish, wapentake of Staincross, West riding Yorkshire, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Barnsley; containing 1226 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Ardsley and comprising the whole ancient parish of Darfield to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Darfield page.

Church records
Ardsley 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.

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