Felkirk Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Felkirk is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Upper Hiendley, South Hiendley with Upper Hiendley, South Hiendley, Shafton, Havercroft with Cold Hiendley, Havercroft, Grimethorpe, Cold Hiendley, Brierly, Brierley with Grimethorpe, and Brierley.

Alternative names: Felkirk with Brierly

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1701
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FELKIRK, a parish in Hemsworth district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Rotherham railway, 1 ½ mile NE of Royston and Notton r. station, and 5 NE by N of Barnesley.

It contains the townships of Brierley, Shafton, South Hiendley, and Havercroft-with-Cold-Hiendley; the first of which has a post-office under Barnesley.

Acres, 5, 872. Real property, £8, 831. Pop., 1, 106. Houses, 248.

The place which gives name to the parish is only a single farm-house. Building-stone is quarried.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, 136. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is ancient but good, and has an embattled tower.

There is a Wesleyan chapel. An endowed school has £19; and other charities £14.

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 John Skipton, Pontefract, and Margaret Finch, Felkirk—either place.

1630 Robert Scholey, Felkirk, and Beatrice Wykeham, widow, Normanton—either place.

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

England, Yorkshire, Felkirk – Census ( 3 )
Census returns for Havercroft, 1841-1891 Author: Great Britain. Census Office

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

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

England, Yorkshire, Felkirk – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Felkirk, 1598-1834 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Felkirk (Yorkshire)

Easter dues, 1706-1723 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Felkirk (Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1598-1706 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Felkirk (Yorkshire); Arnold, Hilary

Parish registers for Felkirk, 1701-1934 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Felkirk (Yorkshire)

The registers of the parish church of Felkirk in the Diocese and County of York from May, 1701, to December, 1812 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Felkirk (Yorkshire); Royds, A. Nora J.

England, Yorkshire, Felkirk – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Felkirk, Yorkshire, England

England, Yorkshire, Felkirk – History ( 1 )
The ancient parish of Felkirk Author: Webster, T. Boyard

England, Yorkshire, Felkirk – Land and property ( 1 )
Parish registers for Felkirk, 1701-1934 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Felkirk (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Felkirk – Taxation ( 4 )
Land tax assessments for Brierley township, 1781-1830 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Havercroft township, 1781-1831 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Shafton township, 1781-1830 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for South Hiendley township, 1783-1832 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Hemsworth
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Doncaster
  • Poor Law Union: Hemsworth
  • Hundred: Staincross
  • Province: York