Yarkhill, Herefordshire Genealogy
Guide to Yarkhill, Herefordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Yarkhill, Herefordshire | |
|---|---|
 Yarkhill St John the Baptist Herefordshire | |
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Radlow |
| County | Herefordshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Ledbury |
| Registration District | Ledbury |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1559 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1661 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Frome |
| Diocese | Hereford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Herefordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
YARKHILL (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Ledbury, hundred of Radlow, county of Hereford, 7¼ miles (E. by N.) from Hereford. It is situated on the right bank of the river Froome, and consists of 1644 acres. [1]
Yarkhill is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire Yarkhill Wikipedia
Yarkhill St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish in Herefordshire
Fabian Stedman was born in the village and baptised at St John's church on 7 December 1640. Fabian's father Francis Stedman was Rector of Yarkhill from 1625–1671. Francis's time as Rector saw the installation of the current ring of four bells seen today. Fabian Stedman pioneered the skill of change ringing beloved of campanologists all over the world. See Church website
The Parish church of St John the Baptist Watery Lane Yarkhill has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building
See also Herefordshire Churches
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Yarkhill parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Yarkhill Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS BTs | 1583-1898 | 1583-1898 | 1583-1898 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FMP | 1538-1935 | 1538-1936 | 1541-1992 | |||
| NBI | 1813-1839 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
The Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre houses many parish registers. See The records we hold for a list of records available there. How to contact them:
- Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
Fir Tree Lane
Rotherwas
Hereford HR2 6LA
Telephone: +44 (0)1432 260750
Email: archives@herefordshire.gov.uk
Website: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
Census records[edit | edit source]
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK
Introduction to Family History Centers to locate outside UK.
Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.
Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
Find my Past census search 1841-1901
Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.
The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search.Find my Past 1911 census
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Ledbury Poor Law Union, Herefordshire Genealogy
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Herefordshire 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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Yarkhill/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 707-716. Accessed and adapted 16 July, 2013.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
