Austerfield Yorkshire Family History Guide

Austerfield is a chapelry of Blyth Ancient Parish in Nottinghamshire. 

Alternative names: 

Riding: West Riding

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Methodist and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

AUSTERFIELD, a township-chapelry in Blyth parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to Notts, and to the Retford and Doncaster railway, 1½ mile NNE of Bawtry. Post Town, Bawtry.

Acres, 2,776. Real property, £3,477. Pop., 389. Houses, 89. A Roman camp occurs here on the line of North Watling-street; and a great battle is supposed to have been fought adjacent between the Britons and the Romans under Ostorins.

The living is a curacy, joined with Bawtry, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is Norman.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Austerfield – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Austerfield : birthplace of William Bradford
Author:    Doncaster & District Family History Society

St. Helena’s Church, Austerfield (Doncaster), monumental inscriptions
Author:    Doncaster Society for Family History

England, Yorkshire, Austerfield – Census ( 2 )
Austerfield : birthplace of William Bradford
Author:    Doncaster & District Family History Society

Census returns for Austerfield, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Austerfield – Church records ( 9 )
Austerfield : birthplace of William Bradford
Author:    Doncaster & District Family History Society

Bishop’s transcripts for Austerfield, 1813-1860
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Austerfield (Yorkshire)

Church records, 1871-1898
Author:    Retford Circuit (Nottinghamshire : Methodist)

England, Nottinghamshire, Austerfield, Saint Helena parish registers, 1653-1812
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Austerfield (Yorkshire); Nottinghamshire Archives Office

England, Yorkshire, Austerfield Saint Helena parish records, 1559-1653
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Austerfield (Yorkshire); Nottinghamshire Archives Office

Methodist non-register materials, 1802-1955
Author:    East Retford Circuit (Nottinghamshire : Methodist)

The record of Governor Bradford’s baptism, on the parish register at Austerfield
Author:    Bowman, George Ernest, 1860-1941

The registers of the chapel of Austerfield, in the parish of Blyth and in the County of York, 1559-1812
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Austerfield (Yorkshire); Lumb, George Denison, 1858-1939

West Doncaster Deanery burials : directories, notes & graphics
Author:    Doncaster & District Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Austerfield – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Austerfield, 1600-1812
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Austerfield (Yorkshire)

Computer printout of Austerfield, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Austerfield – Genealogy ( 1 )
Pedigrees and deeds of Cannon Hall (Yorkshire)
Author:    Preston, W. E. (William Easterbrook)

England, Yorkshire, Austerfield – History ( 1 )
A topographical history and description of Bawtry and Thorne : with the villages adjacent
Author:    Peck, W.

England, Yorkshire, Austerfield – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Austerfield township, 1784-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments, Austerfield, 1801-1900
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Doncaster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Nottingham
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Retford
  • Poor Law Union: Doncaster
  • Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
  • Province: York