Waddington, Yorkshire Genealogy
Guide to Waddington, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Waddington, Yorkshire | |
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Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Staincliff and Ewcross |
County | Yorkshire |
Poor Law Union | Clitheroe |
Registration District | Clitheroe |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1599 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1599 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Craven |
Diocese | Pre-1836 - York; Post-1835 - Ripon |
Province | York |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York |
Location of Archive | |
Yorkshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
Waddington St Helen was an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1739 from chapelry in Mitton, Lancashire Ancient Parish.
Waddington was originally was part of the ancient Lordship of Bowland which comprised a Royal Forest and a Liberty of ten manors spanning eight townships and four parishes and covered an area of almost 300 square miles (780 km2) on the historic borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The manors within the Liberty were Slaidburn (Newton-in-Bowland, West Bradford, Grindleton), Knowlmere, Waddington, Easington, Bashall Eaves, Mitton, Withgill (Crook), Leagram, Hammerton and Dunnow (Battersby).
Waddington is a small village, 2 miles (3 km) north-west of Clitheroe, within the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. It is also a civil parish. Prior to the 1974 county boundary changes, Waddington just fell within the boundary of Bowland Rural District of the West Riding of Yorkshire. WADDINGTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Mitton, union of Clitheroe, W. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 1¾ mile (N. W. by N.) from Clitheroe. [1]
Resources
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 Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Mitton exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:
AC = http://www.ancestry.com/ (£) | |||||
FREG = FreeREG - free[2] | |||||
FS = FamilySearch.org | |||||
JOIN = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk - (£) |
WADDINGTON CHAPELRY (1599) Online Records | ||||||
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AC | 1599-1812 |
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FREG | 1599-1812 | 1599-1812 | 1599-1812 | |||
FS | 1599-1854 |
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JOIN | None | |
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For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Waddington and comprising the whole ancient parish of Mitton to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Mitton page.
To find the names of the neighboring 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.
Non Conformist Churches
Census records
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
Clitheroe Poor Law Union, Lancashire
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.
Websites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 429-432. Date accessed: 16 October 2013.
- ↑ 'Yorkshire West Riding,' FreeREG, accessed 22 October 2014.