Royston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Notton, Low Cudworth, High and Low Cudworth, High Cudworth, Cudworth, Chevet, Carlton near Barnesley, and Carlton.
Alternative names: Roystone
Parish church: St. John the Baptist
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1553
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ROYSTONE (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the wapentake of Staincross, W. riding of York; containing, with the chapelries of Woolley and Monk-Bretton, and the townships of Carlton, Chevet, Cudworth, and Notton, 4341 inhabitants, of whom 612 are in Roystone township, 4¼ miles (N. N. E.) from Barnsley.
The parish comprises by computation 12,700 acres: the soil is fertile, and generally in good cultivation; the surface is boldly varied.
The village is situated on an eminence, near the Barnsley canal. The district abounds with coal, though no mines are in operation; and there are some extensive quarries of good freestone, of which large blocks are raised for railway purposes and buildings of magnitude. The Midland railway passes through the parish.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £17. 3. 4.; net income, £166; patron and appropriator, the Archbishop of York. The church is an ancient and handsome structure in the later English style, with a square embattled tower crowned by pinnacles, and, notwithstanding recent alterations, presents many interesting features within.
At Woolley and Monk-Bretton are separate incumbencies.
The free grammar school is endowed with an annuity of £4. 6. 11. from the revenue of the duchy of Lancaster, and also with a house and some land granted by the crown in 1605. Sir George Wood, baron of the exchequer, who died in 1824, was born in the vicarage-house.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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 Richard Beaumont, Warmfield, and Jane Newton, Royston—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, Roystone – Census ( 3 )
Census returns for Carlton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Census returns for Chevet, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Census returns for Roystone, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Roystone – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Barnsley Family History Society index to 1851 & ’61 census : vol. 22, Royston
Author: Barnsley Family History Society
England, Yorkshire, Roystone – Census – 1861 – Indexes ( 1 )
Barnsley Family History Society index to 1851 & ’61 census : vol. 22, Royston
Author: Barnsley Family History Society
England, Yorkshire, Roystone – Church history ( 2 )
Royston, people of an ancient parish
Author: Elliot, Brian
The story of the parish church of Royston : a short guide and history
Author: Wilkinson, J. G. H.
England, Yorkshire, Roystone – Church records ( 10 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Monk-Bretton, 1842
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Monk-Bretton (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Roystone, 1600-1842
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Roystone (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Woolley, 1600-1866
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Woolley (Yorkshire)
Parish register transcripts, 1557-1633
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Roystone (Yorkshire)
Parish register transcripts, 1601-1898
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Woolley (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Monk-Bretton, 1839-1906
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Monk-Bretton (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for St. John Baptist’s Church, Royston, 1565-1813
Author: Church of England. St. John Baptist’s Church (Royston, Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Woolley, 1651-1954
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Woolley (Yorkshire)
The parish registers of Royston (West Riding) : baptisms 1559-1812, marriages 1562-1812, burials 1557-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Roystone (Yorkshire); Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section
The parish registers of Woolley (West Riding) : baptisms 1600-1837, marriages 1600-1837, banns (only) 1755-1808, burials 1600-1837
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Woolley (Yorkshire); Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section; Lonsdale, A. M.
England, Yorkshire, Roystone – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
Computer printout of Monk Bretton, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Royston or Roystone, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Woolley, Yorkshire, England
St. Peter’s Church, Woolley, baptisms, 1867-1905
Author: Banks, Allen; Smith, Joan P.; Church of England. Chapelry of Woolley (Yorkshire); Wakefield and District Family History Society
England, Yorkshire, Roystone – History ( 1 )
Royston Manor, Yorks; Yorks, history of Royston meadsteads
Author: Oldroyd, Joseph
England, Yorkshire, Roystone – Land and property ( 1 )
Parish registers for Woolley, 1651-1954
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Woolley (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Roystone – Taxation ( 8 )
Land tax assessments for Carlton township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Chevet township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Cudworth township, 1781-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Monk Bretton township, 1781-1830
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Notton township, 1783-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Roystone township, 1782-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Woolley, 1782-1830
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Township book, 1766-1817; survey and valuation, 1823
Author: Roystone (Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Barnsley
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Doncaster
- Poor Law Union: Barnsley
- Hundred: Staincross
- Province: York
