Rufforth, Yorkshire Genealogy
Guide to Rufforth, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Rufforth, Yorkshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | York (Ansty) |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Poor Law Union | Great Ouseburn Gilbert Union |
| Registration District | York |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1655 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1582 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | New Ainsty |
| Diocese | York |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Peculiar of St Leonard's Hospital, York |
| Location of Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
RUFFORTH (All Saints), a parish, in the E. division of Ainsty wapentake, W. riding of York, 5 miles (W.) from York, on the road to Wetherby. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Online Records[edit | edit source]
Online data content from chapelry registers of RUFFORTH exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch.org |
| RUFFORTH PARISH (1655) Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1655-1889 (gaps) | |||||
| FS | 1655-1903 | 1655-1900 | 1813-1901 | |||
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.
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.
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]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 711-716. Date accessed: 25 October 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 28 October 2014.
