Harrogate, Yorkshire Genealogy
England 
Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R North Riding of Yorkshire Harrogate Low
Guide to Harrogate, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Harrogate, Yorkshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Claro |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Poor Law Union | Knaresborough |
| Registration District | Knaresborough |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1830 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1830 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Boroughbridge |
| Diocese | Pre-1836 - York; Post-1835 - Ripon |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Peculiar of the Honour of Knaresborough |
| Location of Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Parish History
HARROGATE, a celebrated watering-place, comprising the villages of High and Low Harrogate, of which the former, with the hamlet of Bilton, constitutes a township in the parish of Knaresborough, and the latter is in the parish of Pannal, Lower division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York, 15 miles(N.) from Leeds, 21 (W. by N.) from York, and 200 (N. N. W.) from London. There is a place of worship for Independents in Low Harrogate, and one for Wesleyans in Central Harrogate. [1]
Resources
Civil Registration
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.
Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Low Harrogate exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:
| IARC = Archive.org | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch.org | |||||
| AC = Ancestry - (£)[2] | |||||
| HATH = HathiTrust.org | |||||
| JOIN = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk - (£) |
| LOW HARROGATE PARISH (1786) Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS | 1830-1835 | 1786 |
None | |||
Harrogate Christ Church parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Harrogate Christ Church Parish Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1748-1812 | 1748-1812 | 1748-1812 | 1748-1812 | 1748-1812 | 1748-1812 |
Harrogate St Mark parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Harrogate St Mark Parish Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1717-1812 | 1717-1812 | 1717-1812 | 1717-1812 | 1717-1812 | 1717-1812 |
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.
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. 416-421.Date accessed: 22 October 2013.
- ↑ 'West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812,' Ancestry, accessed 10 May 2014.