Letwell Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Letwell is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from Letwell with Gildingwells Ecclesiastical Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Gildingwells.

Alternative names: Laughton en le Morthen St Peter

Parish church: St Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1813
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

View Location on UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey (1:1 million-1:10,560), 1900s – Full Screen

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LETWELL, a township-chapelry in Laughton-en-le-Morthen parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the boundary with Notts, 4 miles SSW of Tickhill, and 5 N of Shireoak r. station. It has a post office under Worksop.

Acres, 1,090. Real property, £1,380. Pop. in 1851, 115; in 1861,139. Houses, 27. The manor belongs to Sir Thomas W. White, Bart. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Firbeck, in the diocese of York. The church consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with a tower.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Letwell – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Peter’s Church, Letwell, South Yorkshire : record of plaques etc. inside the church and gravestones etc. in the churchyard, 1800-1984
Author:    Stratford, Gerald Howland, 1934-

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

England, Yorkshire, Letwell – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Firbeck, 1596-1836
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Firbeck (Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Letwell (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Letwell, 1601-1727
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Letwell (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Letwell, parish registers, 1813-2010
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Letwell (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute

Parish register transcripts, 1596-1961
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Firbeck (Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1601-1955
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Letwell (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Letwell – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Letwell township, 1781-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments, 1836-1899
Author:    Letwell (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Worksop
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Peculiar of the Chancellor of York with the Prebendal
  • Jurisdiction of Laughton en le Morthen
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    Doncaster
  • Poor Law Union:    Worksop
  • Hundred:    Strafforth and Tickhill
  • Province:    York