Selby, Yorkshire Genealogy
England 
Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes, S-Y West Riding Selby
Parish History
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
Resources
Civil Registration
Church Records
Online Records
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 = ancestory.co.uk (£) | |||||
| HATH = HathiTrust.org | |||||
| JMI = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk |
| SELBY PARISH (1664) Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS | 1746-1901 |
1664,1676-1900 |
1776-1836, 1884-1901 |
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| JMI | None |
None |
None |
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| ANC (£) | None |
None |
None |
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| HATH | None |
None |
None |
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| AO | None |
None |
None |
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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
Parish Records
This ancient parish was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1579.
Census Records
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
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 44-48. Date accessed: 18 October 2013.