Hickleton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Hickleton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1694
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1626

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Hickleton Parish Registers

Yorkshire Hickleton Parish Register, 1626-1812

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 Henry Tyndall, gentleman, Brotherton, and Lucy Jackson, Hickleton —there. (He died 8 June, 1651. She daughter of Sir John Jackson, Knt. Both families entered their pedigrees at Dugdale’s Visitation.)

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 History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HICKLETON, a parish in Doncaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; near the river Dearne, 3¾ miles ENE of Darfield r. station, and 6 W by N of Doncaster. It has a post office under Doncaster. Acres, 1,047. Real property, £1 487. Pop., 127. Houses, 26. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with Hickleton Hall, belongs to Sir Charles Wood, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £150. Patron, Viscount Halifax. The church is old but good; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains an ancient font, and monuments of the Wentworths.

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

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