Ripon Holy Trinity, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
RIPON A church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was erected in 1827, and stood within the city and ancient parish boundary of Ripon St Peter and St Wilfrid (the Cathedral), West Riding of York, 23 miles northwest by west of York. There are two places of worship in the town for Wesleyans, and one each for Independents and Primitive Methodists.

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.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain