Fordon Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Fordon is a chapelry of Hunmanby Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.

Alternative names: Forden, Hunmanby St James

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1840
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FORDON, a chapelry in Hunmanby parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 3¾ miles WSW of Hunmanby r. station, and 10 NW of Bridlington. Post town, Hunmanby, under York. Acres, 1, 460. Pop., 38. Houses, 5. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Hunmanby, in the diocese of York.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Fordon – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Wold Newton & Fordon monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Newton-Wold (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Fordon (Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Hunmanby (Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Fordon – Church records ( 3 )
Chapel-wardens accounts, 1830-1861
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Fordon (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Fordon, parish registers, 1814-1979
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Fordon (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Burton-Fleming, 1538-1892
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Burton-Fleming (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Fordon (Yorkshire)

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bridlington
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Dickering
  • Poor Law Union: Bridlington
  • Hundred: Dickering
  • Province: York