Kilnsea, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
KILNSEA (St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Patrington, S division of the wapentake of Holderness, East Riding of York, 8½ miles SE by E from Patrington. This parish, sometimes called Kilnsea with Spurn, comprehends the narrow neck of land at the south-eastern extremity of the county, terminating in the promontory of Spurn Head. Church of England records began in 1711.

Neighboring 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.

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

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

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