The parish of South Kirkby is on the south of the area covered by Pontefract and District Family History Society. It includes the villages of Minsthorpe, Moorthorpe, North Elmsall, South Elmsall and Skelbrook, as well as South Kirkby itself.

The GENUKI website has some general information on South Kirkby:

The parish church of All Saints is an ancient one and its registers that survive date back to 1620. Registers deposited at the Wakefield Headquarters of the Wakefield Archive Service (http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/). Deposits in D168, most of which are available on fiche, include:

	Baptisms (1620 – 1903)
	Marriages (1620 – 1894)
	Marriage register and banns (1754 – 1831)
	Burials (1620 – 1969)

The registers are also available as FHL BRITISH Film 1542263, available from any LDS Family History Centre (www.familysearch.org)

South Kirkby Bishop’s Transcripts

Bishop’s transcripts held at the Borthwick Institute, York (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/).

The South Kirkby All Saints BTs are also available on FHL British Film 919308 Item 1:

Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1601, 1602, 1604, 1608, 1627-1636, 1639-1641, 1661-1668, 1671-1673, 1675, 1677, 1679, 1682-1684, 1686 (2 versions), 1688, 1689, 1692-1694, 1696-1716, 1718-1837, 1839-1853.

Marriages to 1837 only.

The Chapelry of Skelbrook

Skelbrook registers

Skelbrook was a chapelry in South Kirkby and so had its own registers. Original registers are at Doncaster Archives, reference P61:

	Baptisms 1592-1812, and 1813-1901 (Note that some pages are torn or missing and in otherwise poor condition. The very early records are also mixed and not in consistent chronological sequence.)
	Marriages 1592-1754, 1756-1901, banns 1824-1909 (not complete)
	Burials 1592-1812.

The registers of Skelbrook are also available on FHL BRITISH Film 1545733 Items 12-14 and on FHL BRITISH Film 1545734 Items 1-6.

Skelbrook Bishop’s Transcripts

The Bishop Transcripts for Skelbrook Chapelry are held the Borthwick Institute, York:

	Christenings, marriages, and burials, 1609, 1627, 1633, 1635-1639, 1660-1669, 1671, 1672, 1675, 1676, 1683, 1684, 1689, 1691, 1692, 1694, 1696-1716, 1718, 1719, 1721-1725, 1727-1732, 1734-1743, 1745-1813, 1815-1853, 1855-1859, 1863-1880.
	Marriages to 1836 only.

Skelbrook BTs are also available on FHL BRITISH Film 919308 Item 2

South Elmsall Wesleyan Methodist Church

The registers of South Elmsall Wesleyan Methodist Church, which is part of the Pontefract Methodist Circuit, are also held at the Wakefield Headquarters of the West Yorkshire Archive Service, reference C6/13/1.

The registers are also available on FHL BRITISH Film 1657057 Item 34.

South Kirkby web links

Information on South Kirkby Colliery