Ardsley East Yorkshire Family History Guide

Ardsley East is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. 

Alternative names: East Ardsley

Riding: West Riding

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1654
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ARDSLEY (East), a parish in Wakefield district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Wakefield railway, 1½ mile from Ardsley station, and 3½ NW of Wakefield. It has a post office under Wakefield. Acres, 1,630. Real property, £3,963. Pop., 1,069. Houses, 219. The property is not much divided. Coal abounds; and there is a large woollen factory. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £369. Patron, the Earl of Cardigan. The church is good; and there are a U. Free Methodist chapel and charities £14.

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

Parish Records

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England, Yorkshire, Ardsley (East)

England, Yorkshire, East Ardsley – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for East Ardsley, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, East Ardsley – Census – 1841 – Indexes ( 1 )
West Ardsley & East Ardsley census index, 1841
Author:    Morley and District Family History Group

England, Yorkshire, East Ardsley – Church records ( 7 )
Baptisms, 1879-1912
Author:    Wesleyan Methodist Church. Morley Circuit (Yorkshire)

Baptisms, 1899-1951
Author:    Zion Chapel (East Ardsley, Yorkshire : United Methodist)

Bishop’s transcripts for East Ardsley, 1598-1857
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of East Ardsley (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Woodkirk, 1600-1887
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Woodkirk (Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of East Ardsley (Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1655-1812
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of East Ardsley (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for East Ardsley, 1654-1823
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of East Ardsley (Yorkshire)

The parish registers of East Ardsley (West Riding) : baptisms 1663-1837, marriages 1654-1837, burials 1654-1837 (and surviving earliers BT’s)
Author:    Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section

England, Yorkshire, East Ardsley – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
Computer printout of East Ardsley, Yorks., Eng

East Ardsley Primitive Methodist Chapel : baptism index 1916-1964
Author:    Morley and District Family History Group

East Ardsley St. Michael’s Church : baptism index 1834-1864
Author:    Morley and District Family History Group

East Ardsley Zion Chapel : baptism index 1863-1898
Author:    Morley and District Family History Group

England, Yorkshire, East Ardsley – Public records ( 1 )
Constables accounts, 1653-1692
Author:    East Ardsley (Yorkshire). Constable

England, Yorkshire, East Ardsley – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for East Ardsley township, 1781-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Yorkshire Historical Directories

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wakefield
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery: Pontefract
  • Poor Law Union: Wakefield
  • Hundred: Agbrigg
  • Province: York