Manston Yorkshire Family History Guide

Manston is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1849 from Barwick in Elmet Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Barwick in Elmet St James

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1847
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1847

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MANSTON, a chapelry in Barwick-in-Elmet parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near the Leeds and Selby railway, 3¼ miles E by N of Leeds.

It was constituted in 1849; and its Post town is Seacroft, under Leeds. Rated property, £2,080. Pop., 606. Houses, 131. The property is subdivided.

The living is a Vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £180. Patron, the Rector of Barwickin-Elmet. The church was built in 1847.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Manston – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions in Yorkshire
Author: Gardner, David Ensign, 1915-2007

Monumental inscriptions, Manston, Yorkshire, England
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. British Mission

England, Yorkshire, Manston – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Manston, 1847-1867
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Manston (Yorkshire)

Administration

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