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| bgcolor="#cc99ff" align="center" colspan="18" | <center>1544-1812 [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2256 Ancestry] baptisms, marriages, and burials<ref>[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2256 West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1512-1812] at [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ Ancestry] (£). Described as Pontefract, St Giles and St Mary. Partially indexed.</ref></center>
| bgcolor="#cc99ff" align="center" colspan="18" | <center>1544-1812 [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2256 Ancestry] baptisms, marriages, and burials<ref>[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2256 West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1512-1812] at [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ Ancestry] (£). Described as Pontefract, St Giles and St Mary. Partially indexed.</ref>
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This ancient [[England Church Records|parish]] was created before 1813.&nbsp; Church of England records began in 1842.  
This ancient [[England Church Records|parish]] was created before 1813.&nbsp; Church of England records began in 1842.  


Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.  
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.


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Revision as of 23:57, 2 October 2012

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Parish History[edit | edit source]

PONTEFRACT (St.Giles), a borough, market town, and parish, in the Upper division of the wapentake of Osgoldcross, W. riding of York; comprising the townships of Carleton, East Hardwick, Monkhill, Pontefract, and Tanshelf, and the chapelry of Knottingley; and containing 9851 inhabitants, of whom 4669 are in the borough, 23 miles (S.S. W.) from York, and 177½ (N. N. W.) from London. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans, and a Roman Catholic chapel.[1]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

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.

Church records[edit | edit source]

Online Pontefract, Yorkshire Genealogy Parish Register Images and Indexes
 
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Earliest
1544
1544
1544
Images
1544-1812 Ancestry baptisms, marriages, and burials[2]
Indexes 1585-1642 Joiner[3]

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

This ancient parish was created before 1813.  Church of England records began in 1842.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Census records[edit | edit source]

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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.

Web sites[edit | edit source]

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 586-593. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51218
  2. West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1512-1812 at Ancestry (£). Described as Pontefract, St Giles and St Mary. Partially indexed.
  3. 'Search Marriage Records in West Riding of Yorkshire,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 2 October 2012.