Wickersley Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Wickersley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Alternative names: Wikersley

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1567
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WICKERSLEY, a parish, with a village, in Rotherham district, W. R. Yorkshire; 3¾ miles E by S of Rotherham r. station. It has a post-office under Rotherham.

Acres, 1,230. Real property, £2,672; of which £199 are in quarries. Pop., 709. Houses, 148. The property is subdivided. W. Hall is the seat of Dr. H. Yates. The quarries here furnish grindstones for the Sheffield cutlers.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £400. Patron, the Rev. J. Cox. The church was rebuilt in 1834.

There are two Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £7.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Yorkshire, Wickersley – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Wickersley, 1600-1843
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Wickersley (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Wicker, parish records, 1847-1932
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Wicker (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute

England, Yorkshire, Wickersley, St. Alban’s, parish registers
Author:    University of York. Borthwick Institute

Parish register transcripts, 1567-1841
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Wickersley (Yorkshire); Robson, M. W.; Coe, L.; Hodges, S.

England, Yorkshire, Wickersley – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Wickersley, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Wickersley – Maps ( 1 )
Wickersley, 1901 : with a six-inch map of Bramley, Hellerby & Wickersley in 1891
Author:    Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

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

Land tax assessments, 1884-1899
Author:    Wickersley (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Rotherham
  • Probate Court:    Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    Doncaster
  • Poor Law Union:    Rotherham
  • Hundred:    Strafforth and Tickhill
  • Province:    York