Kellington Yorkshire Family History Guide
Kellington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Alternative names: Kellington with Whitley
Other places in the parish include: Whitley, Low Eggbrough, Kellington with Rowall, Kellingley, Hut Green, High Eggbrough, Eggbrough, Eggborough, Egborough, Beal, and Beaghall.
Status: Ancient Parish
Parish church: St Edmund
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1705
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include:Â Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KELLINGTON, a village, a township, and a parish, in Pontefract district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the river Aire, 1 mile N by W of Whitley r. station, and 6½ ENE of Pontefract; and has a post office under Normanton.
The township comprises 1,679 acres. Real property, £3,231. Pop., 300. Houses, 67.
The parish contains also the townships of Beaghall, Whitley, and Eggbrough. Acres, 7,233. Real property, £12,557. Pop., 1,443. Houses, 320. The property is much subdivided. Earl Cathcart is a landowner. Roall, a picturesque old house, with remains of a fine gateway, was long the seat of the Earnshaws. The pastures are notable for their sheep and cattle. Malting is largely carried on; and there are corn and bone mills.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £370. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is old but good, and has a tower. There are a chapel of ease in Whitley, erected in 1860, Wesleyan chapels in all the four townships, and charities £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Acaster Thomas, Beal, Kellington, Yorkshire, ale-house keeper, July 10, 1821.
Shillito Michael, sen., Beal, Kellington, Yorkshire, dealer, Dec. 6, 1833.
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 Thomas Wood, gentleman, Badsworth, and Alice Anby, Kellington—there. (She was daughter of John Awnby of Sherwood Hall, Kellington (see Dugdale’s Visitation).)
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
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Pontefract
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: New Ainsty
- Poor Law Union: Pontefract
- Hundred: Osgoldcross
- Province: York