Lists from Yorkshire records

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Really a lot of Names! --Lists from Yorkshire Records

More than 10,000 entries from Yorkshire genealogical records for the surnames: Bradley, Edgehill, Gill, Harrison, Herrington, Maud, Meggitt, Metcalf, Nelson, Pearson, Shaw, Thornton, Turner (probate only), Waslin. Also for most variations of those spellings.

I update & add to these lists as research continues. If you have lists you would like to have posted here, please contact me.

Please feel free to copy, use, and share the data in these lists. Feel free to provide a link to any and all of these lists from your own website. But please do not take any portion of these lists and publish them as your own research. And please don't copy and post any portion of these lists on another website. --I update the lists regularly and you wouldn't get the updates.

Pre-1858 Probate Indexes

On 12 January 1858 British probate matters were put under the jurisdiction of civil authorities. Post 1858 probate records are kept at the Principal Probate Registry in London. Prior to January 1858, probates were handled by a multitude of ecclesiastic courts. This web site posts indexes from various pre-1858 Yorkshire jurisdictions.

Yorkshire Probate Jurisdictions are especially difficult to understand compared to the other English Counties. There are 10 major probate courts and at least 60 minor probate courts that claim some jurisdiction in Yorkshire. The indexes posted here by no means cover all of the probate records in Yorkshire. In other words: if you don't find it here, DON'T GIVE UP! Don't understand English Probate Jurisdictions? Here's a Tutorial and Glossary of Terms. My goal for these pages is to eventually cover all the major jurisdictions in Yorkshire and at least some of the minor jurisdictions. Also note that the calendars and indexes are not entirely complete or entirely accurate. . .if you're sure there was a probate record but don't find it in any indexes, maybe you need to go straight to the Wills, Administrations or Act Books!

Major Courts:

Archbishop of York: Exchequer Court & Prerogative (PCY) Court

Sorted by Given Name (helpful when looking for probates of known individuals)

Sorted by Date (helpful when looking for probates of unknown relatives)

Court of the Archdeacon of Richmond, Eastern Deaneries

Court of the Dean and Chapter of York

Minor Courts:

Dean & Chapter of Durham, Peculiar of Howdenshire

Court of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in the Manors of Crossley Bingley Cottingley & Pudsey

Parish Registers
Mostly parishes in the area from Hull to Howden, also some York parishes, etc...

I have extracts from several parish registers combined into a single list. That list is posted in two forms for each surname: Sorted by Given Name & Sorted by Year. Consult the Document Index to see source information on included parishes and what surnames have been extracted from what parishes.

[Note to Turner researchers: Turns out I don't have a Turner line after all - Turner was a first husband! I'll continue to post Turner probates because I have them, but I'm not researching or posting other Turner data any more. I didn't have much other than the probate indexes anyway...]

Parish Register Document Index (Index of document codes found in the Parish lists)

Parish Registers - Sorted by Given Name (helpful when looking for known individuals)

Parish Registers - Sorted by Year (helpful for finding unknown family members)

Miscellaneous Other Resources

Some Civil Registration Index entries for the surname WASLIN/WASLING/WASTLING

Sorted by Surname

Sorted by Year (helpful when looking for siblings etc.)

The Maudes of Airedale - from the Yorkshire Genealogist, 1888

Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire - With Additions, Edited by J.W. Clay, F.S.A.

Preface

Volume I.

Shaw of Sheppard Castle.

Thornton of Tiersall.

Gill of Carr-House.

Volume II.

Thorneton of East Newton.

Volume III.

Harrison of Hornesey.

Harrison of Allerthorpe.

Metcalfe of North-Allerton & Metcalf of Thornborough.

Pearson of Lowthorpe.

Mould of Yorke.

Harrison of Caton.

Coats of Arms

First read the Society of Genealogists Leaflet No. 15 The Right to Arms. (Off-Site Link)

The Coat of Arms of John Maude, of Moor House

The Metcalfe Society Website has a Metcalfe Coat of Arms (click on History of the Name.)

(Off-Site Link) Lists of names from various sources are often posted by generous researchers on the various RootsWeb Genealogical Mailing Lists. Old messages are archived and can be searched through The RootsWeb Mailing Lists Interactive Search feature. If Yorkshire is your interest, put YORKSGEN where it asks for the name of the list. For other mailing lists, you'll need to search RootsWeb to find the name of the appropriate list.
This just in: RootsWeb is trying out a RootsWeb Threaded Mailing List Archive which looks to me to have a goal to allow the searcher to search all Mailing Lists with one query. Cool.

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