Thorner Yorkshire Family History Guide
Thorner is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Scarcroft and Birkby.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1622
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
THORNER, a township, with a village, in Tadcaster district, and a parish partly also in Wetherby and Hunslet districts, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 5½ miles S by W of Wetherby r. station, and has a post-office under Leeds. Acres, 2,190. Real property, £4,748. Pop. in 1851, 951; in 1861, 809. Houses, 192.
The parish includes Scarcroft and Shadwell townships, and comprises 4,380 acres. Pop., 1,500. Houses, 336. There are many good residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £189. Patron, the Earl of Mexborough. The church was restored and enlarged in 1855.
The p. curacy of Shadwell is a separate benefice. There are two Wesleyan chapels, a free school, two national schools, and charities £27.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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 William Emerson, Thorner, and Jane Ruston, Stonegate —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
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: Carlton Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Skyrack
- Province: York