Thorne is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Waterside, Quay, Moor Ends, Levels, Hangman Hill, Ditchmarsh, and Bradholme.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1565
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
Nonconformists include: Â Independent/Congregational, Methodist, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Unitarian, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
THORNE, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in W. R. Yorkshire.
The town stands on the river Don, the Keadby canal, and the South Yorkshire railway, amid a flat but fertile tract, 10 miles NE of Doncaster; and has a post-office under Doncaster, a r. station with telegraph, two banking offices, an ancient church, six dissenting chapels, endowed schools with £200 a year, a workhouse, charities £342, ship-yards, roperies, timber-yards, wharves, a weekly market on Wednesday, and a cattle fair on 11 Oct. Pop. in 1861, 2,591. Houses, 628.
The parish includes four hamlets, and comprises 11,900 acres. Real property, £17,610; of which £75 are in gasworks. Pop., 3,381. Houses, 775.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £200. Patron, the Hon. H. A. Coventry.
The sub-district contains three parishes. Acres, 39,220. pop., 7,153. Houses, 1,694.
The district includes Crowle and Epworth sub-districts, in Lincolnshire; and comprises 71,946 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £6,801. Pop. in 1851, 15,886; in 1861, 16,011. Houses, 3,631 Marriages in 1863, 112; births, 619, of which 46 were illegitimate; deaths, 370, of which 159 were at ages under 5 years, and 10 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,145; births, 5,607; deaths, 3,404.
The places of worship, in 1851, were 11 of the Church of England, with 3,996 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 380 s.; 1 of Baptists, with 96 s.; 1 of Quakers, with 250 s.; 2 of Unitarians, with 200 s.; 16 of Wesleyans, with 3,391 s.; 6 of New Connexion Methodists, with 1,228 s.; 14 of Primitive Methodists, with 1,633 s.; and 1 undefined, with 10 attendants.
The schools were 12 public day-schools, with 639 scholars; 49 private day-schools, with 1,039 s.; and 39 Sunday schools, with 2,505 s.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Thorne – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Nicholas Church, Thorne : monumental inscriptions
Author: Doncaster Society for Family History
England, Yorkshire, Thorne – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Thorne, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Thorne – Church records ( 17 )
Births and burials, 1646-1807
Author: Society of Friends. Balby Monthly Meeting (Yorkshire)
Births, and baptisms of Thorne Independent Church, 1805-1837
Author: Ebenezer Chapel (Thorne, Yorkshire : Independent)
Births, baptisms and burials of Thorne, Yorkshire, Unitarian Christian, 1817-1837
Author: Unitarian Christian (Thorne, England)
Births, marriages and burials, 1646-1837
Author: Society of Friends. Monthly Meeting of York (England)
Bishop’s transcripts for Thorne, 1601-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thorne (Yorkshire)
Church records, 1841-1928
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Thorne, Yorkshire)
Church records, 1872-1957
Author: Methodist New Connexion Chapel (Levels, Yorkshire)
Church records, 1899-1935
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Moor-Ends, Yorkshire)
Church records, 1909-1928
Author: Primitive Methodist Chapel (Thorne, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Thorne, parish registers, 1565-1956
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thorne (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute
Marriage records, 1565-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thorne (Somerset)
Marriages, 1655-1768
Author: Society of Friends. Balby Monthly Meeting (Yorkshire)
Parish register transcripts, 1565-1635
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thorne (Somerset)
Register of marriages at Thorne near Doncaster [1565-1679]
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thorne (Somerset)
Registers of Thorne Congregational Church 1805-1931, Unitarian Church 1813-1837, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel 1841-1928
Author: Lindley, Pamela
Selected baptisms, marriages and burials of various parishes in Yorkshire
Thorne, St. Nicholas : baptisms 1565 to 1936, burials 1565 to 1896, marriages 1750 to 1837 index & much more
Author: Doncaster & District Family History Society
England, Yorkshire, Thorne – Church records – Indexes ( 5 )
Computer printout of Thorne, Ebenezer Independent, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Thorne, Unitarian Christian, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Thorne, Yorks., Eng
Parish register printouts of Thorne, Yorkshire, England (Independent Church, Ebenezer Chapel) ; christenings, 1805-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Thorne, Yorkshire, England (Unitarian Christian) ; christenings, 1817-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Yorkshire, Thorne – History ( 2 )
The history and antiquities of Thorne : with some account of the drainage of Hatfield Chase
A topographical history and description of Bawtry and Thorne : with the villages adjacent
Author: Peck, W.
England, Yorkshire, Thorne – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Thorne township, 1784-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments, Thorne, 1802-1900
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Thorne – Voting registers ( 1 )
Register of persons entitled to vote … within the Thorne Polling district
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Thorne
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Doncaster
- Poor Law Union: Thorne
- Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
- Province: York