Womersley Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Womersley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Walden Stubbs, Stubbs Cridling, Stubbs, Little Smeaton near Pontefract, Little Smeaton, Cridling Stubbs, Cridling Park, and Criding Stubbs.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1564
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOMERSLEY, a township in Pontefract district, and a parish partly also in Hemsworth district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on a branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 5½ miles ESE of Pontefract; and has a post-office under Pontefract, and a r. station. Acres, 3,850. Real property, £3,766; of which £170 are in quarries. Pop., 445. Houses, 84.

The parish includes three other townships, and comprises 7,780 acres. Pop., 996. Houses, 201. W. Hall is the seat of Lord Hawke. Wood Hall was formerly moated. Limestone is quarried and calcined. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £258. Patrons, Trustees of Lord Hawke. The church is early English, and was restored in 1868. There is a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Womersley – Census ( 3 )
Census returns for Cridling-Stubbs, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Little Smeaton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Womersley, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Womersley – Church records ( 3 )
Baptisms, 1884-1956
Author:    Wesleyan Methodist Church (Little Smeaton, Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Womersley, 1600-1865
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Womersley (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Womersley, 1564-1938
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Womersley (Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Womersley – History ( 1 )
Ancient Womersley and her people : using archaeological surveys of pre-history to 11thc.; archaeology and documentation 12th to 20thc., and 20thc. recollections
Author:    Hind, Catharine Ann Brough

England, Yorkshire, Womersley – Taxation ( 4 )
Land tax assessments for Cridling-Stubbs township, 1781-1825
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Little Smeaton township, 1781-1825
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Walden-Stubbs township, 1781-1825
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Womersley township, 1781-1825
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Pontefract
  • Probate Court:    Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    New Ainsty
  • Poor Law Union:    Great Preston Gilbert Union
  • Hundred:    Osgoldcross
  • Province:    York