Birkin Yorkshire Family History Guide
Birkin is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: West Haddlesey, Temple Hurst, Temple Hirst, Hurst Courtney, Hirst Courtney, and Chapel Haddlesey.
Alternative names:
Riding: West Riding
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1649
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1631
Nonconformists include:Â
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BIRKIN, a township in Pontefract district, and a parish in Pontefract and Selby districts, W. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies on the river Aire and on the Selby canal, 3¾ miles NE of Knottingley r. station, and 7½ SW of Selby. Acres, 2,064. Real property, £3,515. Pop., 168. Houses, 35.
The parish contains also the townships of Hurst-Courtney, Temple-Hurst, Chapel-Haddlesey, and West Haddlesey; the last of which has a post office under Selby. Acres, 5,509. Real property, £9,438. Pop., 821. Houses, 184.
The living is a rectory, with Chapel-Haddlesey chapelry, in the diocese of York. Value, £1,008. Patron, the Rev. T. Hill. The church is ancient.
There are three Wesleyan chapels.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Paver’s Marriage Licences
It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.
1630 Arthur Hill and Ann Bromley, Birkin—there.
1630 Anthony Metcalfe, Birkin, and Judith Whitehouse, St. Sampson—there.
Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Pontefract
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: New Ainsty
- Poor Law Union: Pontefract
- Hundred: Barkstone Ash
- Province: York