Selby, Yorkshire Genealogy

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England Gotoarrow.png Yorkshire Gotoarrow.png Yorkshire Parishes, S-YGotoarrow.png West Riding Gotoarrow.png Selby

Parish History[edit | edit source]

SELBY (St. Mary and St. German), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the Lower division of the wapentake of Barkstone-Ash, W. riding of York, 14½ miles (S. by E.) from York, and 177 (N. by W.) from London. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians; and a Roman Catholic chapel.[1]

Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Online Records[edit | edit source]

Online data content from chapelry registers of Selby exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

AO = Archive.org
FS = FamilySearch.org
ANC = ancestry.co.uk (£)
HATH = HathiTrust.org
JMI = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk
SELBY PARISH (1664) Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

Indexes Images Indexes Images Indexes Images
FS 1746-1901

1664,1676-1900

1776-1901

JMI None

None

None

ANC (£) None

None

None

HATH None

None

None

AO None

None

None

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding **Chapelry** and comprising the whole ancient parish of Selby to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Selby page.

Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

Parish Records[edit | edit source]

This ancient parish was created before 1813.  Church of England records began in 1579.

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.


References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 44-48. Date accessed: 18 October 2013.

Bibiography[edit | edit source]

Genealogy and History Websites[edit | edit source]