Ampleforth, Yorkshire Genealogy
Guide to Ampleforth, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Ampleforth, Yorkshire | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Birdforth; Ryedale |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Poor Law Union | Helmsley |
| Registration District | Helmsley |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1644 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1601 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Riddal |
| Diocese | York |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Ampleforth |
| Location of Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
AMPLEFORTH (St. Hilda), a parish, in the union of Helmsley, partly in the wapentake of Birdforth, and partly in that of Ryedale, North riding of Yorkshire; containing 446 inhabitants, of whom 207 are in the township of Ampleforth, 4½ miles (S. W. by S.) from Helmsley. There are three hamlets of Ampleforth-St. Peter, Ampleforth-Birdforth, and Oswaldkirk-Quarter. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Records from the Ryedale registration district held at the North Yorkshire Registration Service are 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
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Online data content from chapelry registers of Ampleforth exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years; see also Oswaldkirk and Birdforth parishes:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch.org | |||||
| JOIN = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk - (£) | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[3] |
| AMPLEFORTH PARISH (1601) Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1880-1891 | |||||
| FS | 1725-1891 | 1725-1844 | 1784 | |||
| JOIN | None | 1814-1837 | None | |||
| NBI | 1750-1902 | |||||
Because of Ampleforth's close proximity to the following ancient parishes, be certain to search these parish registers as well:[edit | edit source]
- Birdforth
- Oswaldkirk (Quarter)
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.
This ancient parish (AP) was created b
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Helmsley Poor Law Union, Yorkshire
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 53-58. Date accessed: 13 December 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 27 October 2014.
- ↑ 'National Burial Index - Yorkshire (North Riding) Coverage,' Federation of Family History Societies, accessed 20 October 2014.
