Ackworth

The Parish of Ackworth

The parish of Ackworth is on the south of the area covered by Pontefract and District Family History Society. It includes Ackworth, Ackworth Moor Top, Brackenhill, Hundhill, Low Ackworth and High Ackworth.

The GENUKI website has some general information on Ackworth:

St Cuthbert's Church, Ackworth

Ackworth Parish Registers

The original registers are held at Wakefield Archives (http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/), in WDP 77:

	Baptisms:1558-1935
	Marriages: 1558-1957
	Burials: 1558-1971

The Wakefield collection also includes:

	Terriers 1817-1825
	Vestry minutes 1866-1942
	Churchwardens' accounts 1847-1853, 1874-1945
	Church rate book 1837-1847
	Charities' records 1660-1966
	Enclosure award, no plan 1774
	Plan of the manor of Ackworth 1774
	'Antiquities of Ackworth', manuscript notes and memoranda 1844

Wakefield Archives also holds the registers of All Saints Church, Moor Top, Ackworth, 1888-1947

The IGI covers the following years:
C 1558-1812, 1813-1875;
M 1600-1812, 1813-1837
Baptisms, marriages, burials 1558-1812 can be found on FHL BRITISH Film 560152
Baptisms, marriages, burials 1803-1868 can be found on FHL BRITISH Film 560153
Films are available from any LDS Family History Centre (www.familysearch.org)

Bishop's Transcripts

There are held at the Borthwick Institute in York (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/) for Ackworth St Cuthberts, for the following years:

1600-1605, 1607, 1609, 1610, 1612, 1614, 1615, 1627, 1629, 1630,1632-1640, 1667-1669, 1671, 1673, 1677, 1678, 1681-1684, 1688, 1689, 1691-1695, 1697, 1698, 1700-1746, 1748-1780, 1782-1838, 1843, 1844, 1875-1887, 1889, 1890

Bishop's transcripts can be found on FHL British Film 990852

1813 - 1834

Ackworth, St Cuthbert, Baptisms

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1834 - 1868

Ackworth, St Cuthbert, Baptisms

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1754 - 1837

Ackworth, St Cuthbert, Marriages

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1837 - 1897

Ackworth, St Cuthbert, Marriages