Brodsworth, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Brodsworth is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Scawsby, Scausby, Scansby, and Pigburn.

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Brodsworth Parish Registers

Yorkshire Brodsworth Parish Register, 1538-1813

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BRODSWORTH (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Doncaster, N. division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 5½ miles (N. W. by W.) from Doncaster; containing, with the township of Brodsworth and the hamlets of Pigburn and Scawsby, 467 inhabitants. It abounds with limestone of superior quality, which is extensively quarried.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6. 6. 10½.; net income, £367; patron, the Archbishop of York. An allotment of land was given in lieu of tithes, in 1815.

The Brodsworth estate belonged to Peter Thellusson, Esq., and is now vested in trustees, according to the singular will of that gentleman, who directed that the greater part of his immense property should be allowed to accumulate, and at a future fixed period, in default of a male heir, be applied towards discharging the national debt.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

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