Nafferton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Nafferton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Nafferton with Pockthorpe, Wansford, and Pockthorpe.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NAFFERTON, a village, a township, and a parish, in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Hull and Scarborough railway, 2 miles E N E of Great Driffield; is a considerable place; and has a station on the railway and a post-office under Driffield.

The township comprises 4, 330 acres. Pop., 1, 311 Houses, 292.

The parish contains also the township of Wansford, and comprises 5, 130 acres. Real property, £7, 764. Pop., 1, 535. Houses, 340. The property is much subdivided. There are malting-houses, a large corn mill, and small manufactures of linen cloth and cordage.

A place called Danes-Graves is supposed to have been a Danish cemetery in the times of the Danish ascendency.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York Value, £300. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is ancient; was restored in 1846; has a memorial E window of 1854, and a pinnacled tower; and contains an ancient font, restored in 1846.

There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, an endowed national school, and charities £92.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Nafferton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Nafferton & Wansford, monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Nafferton – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Nafferton, 1600-1902
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Nafferton (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, Nafferton, parish registers, 1653-1950
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Nafferton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Nafferton – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Nafferton, York, Eng

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

Administration

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