Carnaby Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Carnaby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Alternative names: 

Riding: East Riding

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1596
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CARNABY, a parish in Bridlington district, E. R. Yorkshire; on the Hull and Scarborough railway, 2¼ miles SW of Bridlington. It has a station on the railway; and its Post Town is Bridlington under Hull.

Acres, 2,000. Real property, £2,616. Pop., 152. Houses, 25. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Fraisthorpe, in the diocese of York. Value, £82. Patron, Sir G. Strickland, Bart. The church shows some early English features; has a good later English tower; and contains a circular Norman font.

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 William Johnson, gen., Cheriburton, and Catherine Buck, Carnaby — either place. (Not at Cherry Burton.)

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, Carnaby – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Carnaby and Bessingby, monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Carnaby – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Auburn, 1633-1702
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Auburn (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Bessingby, 1600-1836
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bessingby (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Carnaby, 1600-1868
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Carnaby (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Fraisthorpe, 1600-1775
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Fraisthorpe (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Carnaby and Fraisthorpe, parish registers, 1596-1988
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Carnaby (Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Fraisthorpe (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1631-1641
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Carnaby (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Carnaby – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Carnaby, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Carnaby – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Carnaby, 1783-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bridlington
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of St Leonard’s Hospital, York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Dickering
  • Poor Law Union: Bridlington
  • Hundred: Dickering
  • Province: York