Helmsley, Yorkshire, England Genealogy
Guide to Helmsley, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Helmsley | |
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Hundred | Ryedale |
| Poor Law Union | Helmsley |
| Registration District | Helmsley |
| Records Begin | |
| Parish registers | 1575 |
| Bishop's Transcripts | 1600 |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Riddal |
| Diocese | York |
| Province | York |
| Probate Court | Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York |
| Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Parish History
Helmsley All Saints (with Sproxton, Rievaulx and Carlton) is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Yorkshire. Pockley and Harome, Yorkshire are chapelries of this parish.
Other places in the parish include: Beadlam, Bedlam, Carlton, Carlton near Helmsley, Sproxton, Raisdale, Rievaulx, Rivaulx, Rockley, and Laskill Pasture.
The Church of All Saints dates from 1866-1869 to replace the earlier church of St Matthew and has been designated as a grade II* listed building.
The Church of St Mary Magdalene Helmsley dates from 1882 and has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building
See also Helmsley Wikipedia
HELMSLEY (St. Matthew), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York; comprising the townships of Beadlam, Laskill-Pasture, Rivaulx, and Sproxton, and the chapelries of Bilsdale-Midcable, Haram, and Pockley; and containing 3475 inhabitants, of whom 1465 are in the town, 23 miles (N.) from York, and 218 (N. by W.) from London. [1]
Resources
Find Neighboring Parishes
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
- Monumental Inscriptions in Helmsley, Yorkshire(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Civil Registration
Records from the Ryedale registration district held at the North Yorkshire Registration Service are 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
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
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
| Helmsley Online Parish Records | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-North Riding | ||||||
| FamilySearch Marriage Bonds and Allegations-North Riding | ||||||
| FamilySearch Marriage Bonds and Allegations (Allertonshire)-North Riding | ||||||
| Parish Registers - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-North Riding ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Banns-North Riding ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Marriage Licences-North Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry Church of England Marriage Bonds-North Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-North Yorkshire ($) | 1800s-1900s |
1700s-1900s |
1800s-1900s |
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| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 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 - North Riding ($)
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - North Riding ($)
- UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
- Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
Nonconformist Records
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
Census Records
Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.
Poor Law Unions
Helmsley Poor Law Union, Yorkshire
Probate Records
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
References
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, [A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 470-474. Date accessed: 6 December 2013.