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.

The 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. County town: York Other major towns: Bradford, Sheffield, Leeds Yorkshire Places of Worship Regional projects Forum

Yorkshire County Map. Source:Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• East Riding Record Office

• West Yorkshire Archive Service

• North Yorkshire Archives

• East Riding Library

• North Library

• York Central Library

• Barnsley FHS

• Bradford FHS

• Calderdale FHS

• Doncaster FHS

• East Yorkshire FHS

• Huddersfield & District FHS

• Morley FHS

• Pontefract FHS

• Rotherham FHS

• Sheffield FHS

• Wakefield FHS

• North Riding of Yorkshire Look-up Exchange

• Yorkshire-West Riding Look-up Exchange

• Parish Register UK Look-up Exchange

• Kirkheaton Online Parish Clerk

Countywide Interest

• Leeds Parish Registers 1612-1639

• Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield 1274-1294

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

• Churchwardens’ accounts for St Michael Spurriergate in York for the year 1546 .PDF

• York Bridgemasters' Accounts

• Yorkshire Census

• Yorkshire Surname List

• Online Census Records for Yorkshire

• Yorkshire Indexers

• Yorkshire GenWeb Project

• Yorkshire Roots

• Teesside Archives

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

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

• Dales Genealogy

• The 1868 Leeds Poll Book

Specific Town and Village Interest

• 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

• Ackworth St Cuthbert Parish Register Transcriptions

• Aldbrough St John

• Old Barnsley

• Bishop Wilton

• Bolsterstone Genealogy Project

• Barford Community Website's Genealogy Pages

• Brotherton

• Calverley - Parish Records

• Cononley Local History

• Cowling Local History

• Cowling Moonrakers

• Crakehall

• Craven's Part in the Great War

• Dalton

• Dewsbury Now and Then

• Driffield

• Earby and District Local History Society

• Easingwold Monuments - Monumetal Inscriptions Easingwold Church 1911

• Eastrington Village

• Eston

• Fitzwilliam Archive Project

• Gargrave in Past Times

• Golcar, Some Parish Records and Burials

• Goole on the Web

• Grinton Parish Church - some Parish Records

• Gunnerside

• Halifax -Mount Zion Chapel

• Harrogate People and Places

• Harrogate and Knaresborough Monumental Inscriptions

• Haworth Village

• Honley Cemetery Burial Book 1857-1935

• Brief history of Hull, Its Museums and Docks

• Haxby - History Section

• Kellington

• All Saint's Church Parish Records, Kilnwick in the Wolds

• Kirkby Malham

• Kirkby Misperton History

• Knottingley and Ferrybridge

• Langcliffe in Craven

• Malhamdale Local History Pages

• St Marys Church, Little Driffield

• Marsden History Group

• Mirfield in Pictures

• Newton-le-Willows and surrounding Villages

• St Andrew's Church, Normanby, Parish Registers

• Life and Death in Elizabethan Norton

• Three Villages - Old Byland, Rievaulx and Scawton

• Pannal Village History

• Pocklington History

• Ravenfield Village

• Rotherham Web

• Peace Please! Rotherham

• Rudston Village Website

• Transcript of St John's Church, Salton and Brawby

• Sheffield Genealogy

• Sheffield General Cemetery

• Sheffield History Forum

• Sheffield Indexers

• Sheffield in Pictures

• Skipton Local History

• Staveley Historical Society North Yorkshire Web Resource Pages & Archive

• Thrybergh

• Thrybergh and Dalton Heritage Group

• Thurcroft

• Treeton

• Ulley Web

• Wakefield

• Wakefield Area Burials and Cremations

• Wakefield - 'Twixt Aire and Calder

• Wentworth Village History

• West Scrafton in Coverdale

• Wharfedale and Craven Genealogical Study

• Whashton, Kirby Hill and Ravendale Census Data and Photographs

• Whitby Archives Heritage Centre

• Whiston Web

• Wickersley Web

• Wigglesworth Village

• York Assizes 1785-1851

• York Cemetery

Maps and Photographs

• Old photographs of Hull

• Leodis A Photographic Archive of Leeds

• Gallery of Old Settle

• Pictures of Sheffield

• The Rowley Collection -Historic Photographs of Skipton

• Imagine York

Register Office Contact Details

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

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Aldborough autumnfall
• Boroughbridge autumnfall
• Driffield area Janet in Yorkshire (Spring and Summer only)
• East Yorkshire Jeanette in Yorkshire
• Harthill Vicky the Viking
• Hull area Jeannette in Yorkshire
• Knaresborough autumnfall
• 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

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message the member with your queries.

• East Yorkshire Astro Lady OR SBPF Wendy
• Middlesbrough BoroBabs
• Redcar BoroBabs
• Eston BoroBabs
• Normanby BoroBabs
• Stokesley BoroBabs
• Guisborough BoroBabs

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