West Tanfield, Yorkshire Genealogy

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West Tanfield

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

  

West Tanfield, Yorkshire
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Hallikeld
County	Yorkshire
Poor Law Union	Ripon
Registration District	Ripon
Records begin
Parish registers: 1653
Bishop's Transcripts: 1637
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Catterick
Diocese	Pre-1836 - York; Post-1835 - Ripon
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries - Catterick
Location of Archive
Yorkshire Record Office

Parish History

TANFIELD, WEST (St. Nicholas),  a parish, in the wapentake of Hallikeld, N. riding of York, 6½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Ripon.  Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Resources

Civil Registration

Records from the Northallerton 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

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

IARC = Internet Archive - free

FS = FamilySearch.org

AC = http://www.ancestry.com/ (£)

HATH = HathiTrust.org - free

JOIN = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk - (£)

WEST TANFIELD PARISH (1631) Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	1637-1839		1631-1873		1637-1839
JOIN	None		1631-1837		None
AC	None		None		None

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

Records are also available at the North Yorkshire County Record Office.

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.

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