Gawber Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Gawber is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1849 from Darton Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Barugh.

Alternative names: Darton St Thomas

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1849
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1856

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GAWBER, a hamlet and a chapelry in Darton parish, W. R. Yorkshire.

The hamlet is in Barugh township; lies near Darton r. station, 2 miles NW of Barnesley; and has a post office under Barnesley.

The chapelry was constituted in 1849. Rated property, £1, 370. Pop., 1, 421. Houses, 282. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £113. Patron, the Vicar of Darton. The church is good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Gawber – Census – 1861 – Indexes ( 1 )
Barnsley Family History Society index to 1861 census : vol. 24, Gawber inc. Higham & Barugh
Author: Barnsley Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Gawber – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Gawber, 1856-1857
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Gawber (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Gawber, 1849-1920
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Gawber (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Barnsley
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery: Pontefract
  • Poor Law Union: Barnsley
  • Hundred: Staincross
  • Province: York