Little Driffield Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Little Driffield is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1821 from chapelry in Great Driffield Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1579
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1630

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DRIFFIELD (Little), a township-chapelry in Driffield parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 1 mile WNW of Driffield. Post town, Driffield. Rated property, £3, 398. Pop., 197. Houses, 41. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Driffield, in the diocese of York. The church is good; and has a stone tablet, bearing that the body of Alfred, king of Northumbria, who died in 705, was buried here.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Little Driffield – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Garton on the Wolds & Little Driffield, monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Little Driffield – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Emswell with Little Driffield, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Little Driffield – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Driffield, 1600-1875
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Driffield (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Little Driffield, 1630-1875
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Little Driffield (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Little Driffield, parish registers, 1813-1968
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Little Driffield (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Little Driffield, 1578-1891
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Little Driffield (Yorkshire)

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

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Driffield
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Peculiar of the Precentor of York with Prebendal Jurisdiction of Driffield
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    Harthill and Hull
  • Poor Law Union:    Driffield
  • Hundred:    Harthill
  • Province:    York