Lund Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Lund is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1587
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LUND, a village and a parish in Beverley district, E. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands on the wolds, 4 miles W by N of Lockington r. station, and 7 NW by N of Beverley; and has a post office under Beverley.

The parish comprises 2,950 acres. Real property, £4,641. Pop., 505. Houses, 102. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a vicarage, recently united with Kilnwick, in the diocese of York. Value, £289. Patron,Grimston, Esq. The church is good, has an embattled tower, and contains a number of monuments.

There are two Wesleyan chapels, and a parochial school.

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 Henry Hodgson, Lund, and Hesther Burton, widow, St. Mary, Beverley — either place.

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, Lund – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Lund monumental inscriptions

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

England, Yorkshire, Lund – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Lund, 1600-1867
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Lund (Yorkshire)

Churchwardens accounts, 1736-1861
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Lund (Yorkshire)

Driffield Wesleyan (later Trinity) Methodist Circuit baptisms 1878-1891 : Circuit eventually comprised chapels at Bainton, Beeford, Brigham, Cranswick, Driffield, Fimber, Frodingham, Foston, Fridaythorpe, Garton, Lockington, Lund, Middleton, Nafferton, North Dalton, Skerne, Sledmere, Southburn, Tibthorpe, Wansford, Wetwang
Author:    Petch, Della

England, Yorkshire, Lund, parish registers, 1697-1968
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Lund (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1586-1680
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Lund (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Lund, 1587-1891
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Lund (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Lund – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Lund near Beverley, Yorkshire, England

England, Yorkshire, Lund – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Lund, 1782-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

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