Beverley Saint Nicholas, Yorkshire, England Genealogy

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Guide to Beverley Saint Nicholas, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Beverley Saint Nicholas
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Yorkshire
Hundred Beverley
Poor Law Union Beverly
Registration District Beverley
Records Begin
Parish registers 1561
Bishop's Transcripts 1600; Separate records exist for Beverley St Nicholas beginning 1601
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Harthill and Hull
Diocese York
Province York
Probate Court Court of the Peculiar of the Provost of the Collegiate Church of St John, Beverley
Archive
Yorkshire Record Office


Parish History[edit | edit source]

BEVERLEY, a borough, market-town, and the head of a union, in the East Riding of York, 9 miles NW from Hull, 29 ESE from York, and 183 N from London; comprising the parishes of St. John, St. Martin, St. Mary, and St. Nicholas, the first of which includes the townships of Aike, Eske, Molescroft, Storkhill with Sandholme, Thearne, Tickton with Hull-Bridge, Weel, and Woodmansey with Beverley-Park; and containing 8759 inhabitants. There are places of worship in the town for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists.[1]

BEVERLEY, a town, four parishes, a sub-district, and a district in East Riding Yorkshire. St. Nicholas' parish Pop., 1,410. Houses, 337. [2]

Resources[edit | edit source]

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Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England[edit | edit source]

Due to the increasing access of online records:

  • Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
  • Dates in the following table are approximate

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Beverley Saint Nicholas Online Parish Records
Collections
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
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Indexes and images
Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-East Riding
1500s-1900s
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Parish Registers - FamilySearch Catalog
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
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1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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FreeREG
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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Findmypast-East Riding ($)
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Findmypast Banns-East Riding ($)
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Findmypast Marriage Licences-East Riding ($)
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Ancestry Marriage Bonds-East Riding ($)
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Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)
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Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
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Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

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]

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Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 223-228. Adapted. Date accessed: 03 January 2014.
  2. John M. Wilson,Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870-1872 Adapted. Date Accessed 3 January 2014.