Doncaster, Yorkshire, England Genealogy
Guide to Doncaster, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Doncaster | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Hundred | Doncaster Borough; Doncaster Soke; Strafforth and Tickhill |
| Poor Law Union | Doncaster |
| Registration District | Doncaster |
| Records Begin | |
| Parish registers | 1557 |
| Bishop's Transcripts | 1600 |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Doncaster |
| Diocese | York |
| Province | York |
| Probate Court | Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York |
| Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
DONCASTER (St. George), a parish, and the head of a union, in the N. division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York; containing, with the townships of Langthwaite with Tilts, Balby with Hexthorpe, and Long Sandall with Wheatley, 11,245 inhabitants, of whom 10,455 are in the borough of Doncaster, 33 miles (S. by W.) from York, and 162 (N. N. W.) from London. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, Primitive Methodists, Wesleyans, and Unitarians, and a Roman Catholic chapel.[1]
Doncaster St George is an Ancient Parish and became a Minster church in 2004 in the market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. St George's Minster Doncaster Wikipedia
A history of the Doncaster Churches is available Doncaster and District Family History Society and describes record holdings for the churches of St George and St Mary Magdalene which was demolished in 1848. The burial registers contain a "p" to denote plague victims in 1582/1583.
The rebuilt church of St George has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building
From this parish were formed:
Doncaster Christ Church, British listed building dating from 1827-1829
St James (the ‘railway church’), British listed building dating from 1858.
St Jude at Hexthorpe See Balby with Hexthorpe, Yorkshire and Hexthorpe St Jude, Doncaster, Yorkshire and St Mary at Wheatley. The town included congregations of Unitarians, Independents, Methodists, Quakers and other denominations in small numbers.
See also Doncaster Wikipedia
Resources[edit | edit source]
Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
- Type the name of the parish in the search bar
- Click on the location pin on the map
- Choose Options from the pop up box
- Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
- 1830-1930 Monumental Inscriptions, Doncaster, York, England, 1830-1930(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Hyde Park Cemetery Records, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Monumental Inscriptions of the Friends Meeting House, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Monumental Inscriptions of the Parish of St. George, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Primary registration of births, marriages and deaths took place at the Doncaster registration district has been included in the online index available at Yorkshire BMD for post 1837 events; view the coverage table to check progress on the availability of index search. Marriages include
- Church of England marriages.
- Civil Marriages at register offices, or non-conformist churches where a registrar was required to be present at the ceremony.
- Authorised Person marriages. These cover the non-conformist places of worship which applied to keep their own registers as a result of the Marriage Act, 1898 (bringing them into line with Jewish and Quaker marriages which had this status since 1837). In such cases an 'Authorised Person' (usually the minister or priest) recorded the ceremony instead of the registrar. Earlier weddings in these places would be included with civil marriage registers.
A secondary index of 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 however this secondary index may omit the event and may not contain the detail of the Yorkshire BMD index
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
Hover over the collection's title for more information
| Doncaster Online Parish Records | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-Yorkshire | ||||||
| FamilySearch Parish Registers-Yorkshire | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-Yorkshire ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Banns-Yorkshire ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry Church of England (Early)-West Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry Church of England (Late)-West Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 1500s-1900s |
1500s-1900s |
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| Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
| National Burial Index-FMP (Free) | ||||||
Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
- Joiner Marriage Index - West Riding of Yorkshire ($)
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - Yorkshire ($)
- 1611-1861 Archdeaconry of Richmond, England, Church of England Marriage Bonds, 1611-1861 at Ancestry – index & images ($)
- UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
- Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
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.
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
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]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Holdings in the Doncaster Archives
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 63-69. Adapted Date accessed: 14 November 2013.