Yorkshire Registers & Records

There are over 200 publications included in this collection of Yorkshire registers & records. The publications span various topics and pertain to a range of categories:

• Social histories

• Census, land & substitutes

• Births, marriages, and deaths

• Institutions and organizations

The collection comprises various publications including, parish magazines, school registers, almanacs, abstracts of wills, and local histories, to name a few. You may find your ancestor listed in a parish register, which may provide useful information such as a christening date and father’s name. Or you may be able to learn more about the context in which your ancestor lived and worked by reading through local histories.

Anguline Research Archives and Yorkshire Ancestors have provided these publications.

Anguline Research Archives was formed in 2005 and is dedicated to making available digital resources for historians interested in local, social, and family history research. Publications provided by Anguline Research Archives are as follows:

• Analecta Eboracensia, or Some Remains of the Ancient City of York (1897)

• Ancient Charters of Sheffield and Abstracts of Sheffield Wills Proved at York (1913)

• Annals of the Wakefield House of Correction (1904)

• Battles Fought in Yorkshire (1891)

• Beautiful & Historic Villages of Yorkshire Illustrated (1907)

• Beautiful Wensleydale and By The Banks of the Yore (1925)

• Bridlington Charters, Court Rolls & Papers (1926)

• Cenotaphs in the Wakefield Area

• Craven District Household Almanac 1928 & 1932

• Descriptive Catalogue of Sheffield Manorial Records (1926)

• Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire pts I to X, With Additions (1894-1912)

• Eventide Review of Primitive Methodism in Otley Circuit (1920)

• Halifax Wills -- abstracts of wills and administrations proved in Halifax between 1389 and 1544

• Historic Sketch of the Parish Church, Wakefield, with Memorial Inscriptions (1824)

• Histories of the Co-operative Societies in Batley, Bingley, Castleford & Keighley, 4 vols (1900-1925)

• History & Antiquities of Craven (1812)

• History & Topography of Harrogate & Forest of Knaresborough (1882)

• History of Skipton (1882)

• History of Yorkshire (1885)

• Idle Upper Chapel Burial Registers & Graveyard Inscriptions

• Interments in the Burial Ground of the Baptist Chapel of Ossett

• Lawton's Collections Relative to the Dioceses of York & Ripon, vols I & II (1840)

• Leeds in the Great War (1923)

• List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield (1865), includes maps

• Memorials of a Yorkshire Parish - Darrington (1917)

• Methodism in Huddersfield, Holmfirth & Denby Dale (1898)

• New Sharlston: A Social History of a West Yorkshire Mining Village (1994)

• North Riding Quarter Session Records, 7 vols (1884-1892)

• Northowram or Coley Register of Non-Conformist Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths

• Ossett Burgess Rolls 1905-06 & 1913-14

• Parish Registers of Addingham (1920)

• Parish Registers of Adel (1893)

• Parish Registers of Allerton Mauleverer & Askham Richard (1908)

• Parish Registers of Arncliffe (1910)

• Parish Registers of Austerfield & Cowthorpe (1910)

• Parish Registers of Bolton-by-Bolland (1904)

• Parish Registers of Bradfield (1905)

• Parish Registers of Brantingham (1902)

• Parish Registers of Burnsall-in-Craven (1912)

• Parish Registers of Burton Fleming (1899)

• Parish Registers of Calverley, vol III (1887)

• Parish Registers of Cherry Burton (1903)

• Parish Registers of Crofton

• Parish Registers of Darrington (1913)

• Parish Registers of Easingwold (1916)

• Parish Registers of Emley (1920)

• Parish Registers of Eston (1924)

• Parish Registers of Garforth (1913)

• Parish Registers of Gargrave (1907)

• Parish Registers of Grinton in Swaledale (1905)

• Parish Registers of Harewood (1914)

• Parish Registers of Headingley & Bramley - Baptisms & Burials (1925)

• Parish Registers of Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York (1911)

• Parish Registers of Holy Trinity, King’s Court, York (1928)

• Parish Registers of Holy Trinity, Micklegate, York

• Parish Registers of Howden (1905)

• Parish Registers of Huggate (1901)

• Parish Registers of Ilkley (1927)

• Parish Registers of Keighley (1925)

• Parish Registers of Kilburn (1918)

• Parish Registers of Kildwick-in-Craven, vols II & III (1913-16)

• Parish Registers of Kippax (1901)

• Parish Registers of Kirby Hill (1924)

• Parish Registers of Kirklington (1909)

• Parish Registers of Manfield (1898)

• Parish Registers of Methley (1903)

• Parish Registers of Mirfield (1919)

• Parish Registers of Patrington (1900)

• Parish Registers of Pickhill cum Roxby (1904)

• Parish Registers of Rothwell, pts I, II & III

• Parish Registers of Rylstone (1895)

• Parish Registers of Settrington (1910)

• Parish Registers of Sheffield, vols I to V

• Parish Registers of South Cave (1909)

• Parish Registers of St Martin's, Micklegate, York (1897)

• Parish Registers of St Mary, Bishophill Junior, York (1915)

• Parish Registers of Stokesley (1901)

• Parish Registers of the Chapelry of East Rounton and Weston

• Parish Registers of Whitkirk, with Other Records (1892)

• Parish Registers of Wintringham (1922)

• Paver's Marriage Licences from the Registry of York, collection I (1893)

• Publications of the Thoresby Society Miscellanea vol XI (1904)

• Publications of the Thoresby Society Miscellanea vol XXIV, pts I & III (1915-17)

• Returns of the Poll Tax for the West Riding of Yorkshire (1882)

• Testamenta Leodiensia (Leeds Wills), 3 vols (1913-1921)

• The Annals of Yorkshire, vols I & II (1852)

• The Bradford Antiquary, vols I & II (1888-95)

• The History of Richmond in Yorkshire

• The Society of Friends in Bradford, including Quaker Births, Marriages & Burials (1926)

• Whitby Abbey Chartulary, 2 vols (1879-1881)

• Wills & Administrations from Knaresborough Court Rolls etc, 2 vols (1902-05)

• York Equitable Industrial Society Ltd Jubilee History (1909)

• Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, pts 93 & 114 (1916 & 1928)

• Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, vol LXI, Miscellanea I (1892-1906)

• Yorkshire Chantry Surveys, pts I & II (1895)

• Yorkshire Fines, 3 vols (1887-1917)

• Yorkshire Inquisitions Post-Mortem vols I to IV (1892-1906)

• Yorkshire Lay Subsidy (1897)

Yorkshire Ancestors has transferred to CDs content from old and rare books on Yorkshire, covering various categories, such as parish registers, biographies, and trade directories. Publications provided by Yorkshire Ancestors are as follows:

• A History of the East Riding of Yorkshire

• A Month in Yorkshire

• Adel Parish Registers, 1606-1812, and Monumental Inscriptions

• Adventures of a Yorkshire Farmer and his Scapegrace Nevvy in London

• Almondbury, Annals of the Church

• Annals of Leeds

• Annals of Yorkshire

• Battles & Battlefields of Yorkshire

• Beverley Polling District Register of Voters, 1868

• Bridlington Charters, Court Rolls & Papers

• Bygone Yorkshire

• Calverley, Registers of the Parish Church

• Castleford and District in the Olden Times

• Castles & Abbeys of Yorkshire

• Catholic Records from York, Newcastle upon Tyne and Hedon in Holderness

• City of York, the New Guide, 1838

• Coats of Arms of the Nobility and Gentry in Yorkshire, Part 1

• Costume of Yorkshire

• County of the White Rose

• Criminal Chronology of York Castle

• East Riding of Yorkshire Poll Book, 1868

• East Yorkshire, a Historical Guide

• Flamborough & District Parish Magazine, 1896

• Flamborough Village & Headland

• Forty Years in a Moorland Parish

• From Eden Vale to the Plains of York - A thousand miles in the valley of the Nidd & Yore

• Guide to Harrogate, with Knaresborough, Ripon, Ilkley, Bolton Abbey, Fountains Abbey, York & the Dales

• Guide to Scarborough and Yorkshire Coast

• Guide to the Yorkshire Dales

• Highways & Byways in Yorkshire

• Historia Rievallensis - The History of Ryedale

• Historic York

• Historical Sketches of Bridlington

• History & Annals of Northallerton

• History & Antiquities of Hemingbrough

• History & Antiquities of Scarborough

• History of Cawthorne

• History of Scalby, Burniston & Cloughton, 1829

• History of the Ancient Parish of Lastingham

• History of the Parish of Darrington

• History of the Parishes of Sherburn & Cawood, with Wistow, Saxton, Towton &c

• History of the Priory and Peculiar of Snaith in the County of York

• History of Welton

• Hovingham Parish Magazines, 1896-1909

• In Monks’ Land - Round about Coxwold, Byland and Rievaulx

• Ingleby Greenhow Parish Registers, 1539-1800

• Kirkby Overblow & District

• Knaresborough Castle and The White Mare of Whitestonecliffe

• Leeds Chapelries - Vol 2 Registers, 1724-1764

• Leeds Chapelries - Vol 3 Registers, 1764-1812

• Leeds Chapelries - Vol 4 Registers of Holbeck, Armley & Hunslet, 1764-1812

• Leeds Parish Church - Vol 5 Baptisms & Burials, 1589-1612

• Leeds Parish Church - Vol 6 Registers of the Parish Church in Leeds, 1612-1639

• Leeds Parish Church - Vol 7 Registers of the Parish Church in Leeds, 1643-1713

• Leeds Parish Church - Vol 8 Registers of the Parish Church in Leeds, 1722-1749

• Leeds Parish Church - Vol 9 Baptisms 1757-1776, Marriages 1754-1769, Burials 1757-1776

• Leeds Parish Church & Chapelries - Vol 1 Registers, 1695-1722

• Leeds Poll Book, 1868

• Legendary Yorkshire

• Life & Times of Francis Mitchell

• Life of John Richardson, 1666-1752

• Life of Thomas Langton - The Yorkshire Evangelist

• Lifebelt and Anchor: The Newland Homes

• Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast

• Mediaeval Yorkshire

• Methley Parish Registers, 1560-1812

• My Moorland Patients

• Nestleton Magna

• North Riding Place Names

• Nunburnholme, its History & Antiquities

• Origin of Kingston-upon-Hull

• Our Old Nobility

• Owners of Land in Yorkshire, 1871

• Picturesque Old York

• Poll Book of Hull, 1832 & 1835

• Poll Book of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1848

• Pontefract, The Book of Entries of the Pontefract Corporation, 1653-1726

• Pontefract: A History of the Ancient Borough

• Rambles about Morley

• Roman Catholics in the County of York, 1604

• Round About Grassington, Skipton, Burnsall & Kettlewell

• Round About Leeds & the Old Villages in Elmete

• Round the Home of a Yorkshire Parson

• Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire

• Rural Economy of Yorkshire

• Selby Abbey, a Resume, 1069-1908

• Selby, History & Antiquities

• Skipton Castle, its History & its Owners

• Story of Yorkshire

• Tadcaster, 2000 Years of History

• The Century's Progress - 19th Century Yorkshire Illustrated

• The Gytrash of Goathland

• The History & Antiquities of Easingwold & its Neighbourhood (Vallis Eboracensis)

• The Manor of Well & Snape

• The North Riding of Yorkshire

• The Old Coaching Days in Yorkshire

• The Old Inns & Inn Signs of York

• The Poor of Sculcoates, 1834

• The Society of Friends in Bradford

• The Village Blacksmith

• The Village Cooper: The Memoirs of Francis Barr

• The Web of an Old Weaver

• They Kept Faith

• Thornton Dale Parish Registers

• Thorough Guide to Yorkshire

• Through a Yorkshire Window

• Topcliffe & Morley Parish Registers

• Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire, 1822

• Tourists' Guide to the East & North Ridings of Yorkshire

• Tramps & Drives in the Craven Highlands

• Trial of Jonathan Martin

• Unhistoric Acts - Some records of early Friends in North-East Yorkshire

• Visitation of Yorkshire

• Walks about Wakefield

• Wensleydale & the Lower Vale of the Yure

• Whitby & its Shipping, 1717-1900

• Whitkirk Parish Registers

• York Municipal Records

• York, The Little Guide

• Yorksher Puddin’ - A Collection of Yorkshire Stories

• Yorkshire

• Yorkshire Illustrations of English History

• Yorkshire Leaders

• Yorkshire Place Names Recorded in the Yorkshire Domesday Book, 1086

• Yorkshire Poll Book,1741

• Yorkshire Reminiscences

• Yorkshire: Scenes, Lore & Legend

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