Yorkshire

Whitby - the source of inspiration for Dracula submitted by Tracy-Sweetgenes!

Yorkshire

"The white rose county" - England's largest county and formerly divided into 3 Ridings, North, East and West, from the word "thriding", meaning "third". It stretches from the coastal area of the North Sea to the Pennines and from the river Humber to the Tees. Fishing and farming are the traditional trades of the east, with iron mining in the north, and coal mining and the textile industries to the west of the county. Home of the Yorkshire pudding, traditionally served separately at the start of the meal, and Black Sheep beer. Artist David Hockney was raised in Bradford. Captain Cook sailed from Whitby to discover the east coast of Australia. Yorkshire has seen many boundary changes over the years and there are several county, city and local metropolitan borough council organisations throughout the region.

A full list of register offices, searchable bmd database and links to the major Yorkshire Genealogy Sites can be accessed through: Yorkshire Births Marriages & Deaths

Register Office Contact Details

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• Aldborough autumnfall
• Altofts Cemetery Tom
• Baildon, St John Tom
• Boroughbridge autumnfall
• Driffield area Janet in Yorkshire (Spring and Summer only)
• East Yorkshire Jeanette in Yorkshire
• Esholt, Parish Church Tom
• Guiseley, St Oswalds Tom
• Harthill Vicky the Viking
• Hull area Jeannette in Yorkshire
• Knaresborough autumnfall
• Menston, Parish Church Tom
• Middlesborough BoroBabs
• North Anston, South Yorkshire Lynn The Forest Fan
• Pocklington area Janet in Yorkshire (Spring and Summer only)
• South Anston, South Yorkshire Lynn The Forest Fan
• Wales Vicky the Viking
• Between Hull and Goole Astro Lady

Links

General

• East Riding Library

• North Library

• York Central Library

OPC

Local History Society

• Barnsley FHS

• Bradford FHS

• Calderdale FHS

• Doncaster FHS

• East York FHS

• Huddersfield & District FHS

• Morley FHS

• Pontefract FHS

• Rotherham FHS

• Sheffield FHS

• Wakefield FHS

Archives

• West Yorkshire Record Office

• East Riding Record Office

• North Yorkshire Archives

• IGI Yorkshire A-D

• IGI Yorkshire E-H

• IGI Yorkshire I-L

• IGI Yorkshire M-P

• IGI Yorkshire Q-S

• IGI Yorkshire T-Z

• Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield 1274-1294

• An index to records held of prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes 1785 - 1851

Family and Social History

• Yorkshire Workhouses

• Memories of growing up in Hull in Yorkshire, pre and post WWI up until WWII.

• Death Notices in Yorkshire Newspapers

• From Weaver To Web - Calderdale

• North Yorkshire Ironstone mining

• The West Riding Colliery School

• Silverwood Colliery

• Yorkshire Women's Lives 1100 to the Present

• Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project

• Wolds Wagoners, East Yorks ag labs who used their skills as drivers for the army

Maps and Photographs

• Pictures of Sheffield

• Imagine York, a collection of old photographs of York

• Leodis A photographic archive of Leeds

• Old photographs of Hull

• A searchable collection of around 10,000 old photographs of Wakefield and the surrounding area

Countywide Interest

• Yorkshire Surname List

• Online Census Records for Yorkshire

• Yorkshire Indexers

• Yorkshire Roots

• Teesside Archives are responsible for collecting and preserving archival material from official and private sources in the area

• Borthwick Institute, York, Parish Records for parts of East & North Yorks and also many pre 1857 wills for Northern Province

• Death Notices in Yorkshire Newspapers, 1901 onwards

• Yorkshire Archaeological Society Parish Register Section, Books, Microfiche & CD Roms

• The 1868 Leeds Poll Book

Specific Town/Village Interest

• Bishop Wilton

• Calverley Info The parish church section holds records from the parish churches (Anglican, Church of England) The non-conformist sections holds records for all other denominations (Baptist, Methodist, etc)

• Cowling Moonrakers

• Driffield - Capital of the Wolds

• Easingwold Monuments - MIs from Easingwold church as recorded in 1911

• Eston area - background information

• Golcar, Some Parish Records and Burials

• Halifax Cemetery

• Honley Cemetery Transriptions 1857-1935

• Brief history of Hull, its museums and docks

• Hulls Lost Trawlermen (a PDF file)

• Haxby-Yorks History Section

• Knottingley and Ferrybridge- Its History & Origins

• Pocklington History

• Sheffield Indexers and surrounding areas in South Yorkshire

• Sheffield General Cemetery

• Sheffield in Pictures

• Staveley Historical Society North Yorkshire Web Resource Pages & Archive

• Wakefield

• Burials in the Wakefield area

• 'Twixt Aire and Calder, Wakefield District in words and pictures

• Transcripts of Wensleydale Censuses

• Whitby Archives Heritage Centre

• York Assizes 1785-1851

• York Cemetery

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