The Joiner Marriage Index

West Riding of Yorkshire (WRY) Marriage Records

In the West Riding of Yorkshire the Joiner Marriage Index currently has 253903 marriage records in 146 parishes between 1538 and 18174.

For a list of the surnames of our grooms in the West Riding of Yorkshire, click here, and for our brides, click here.

For genealogical information regarding Yorkshire please visit : www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/

For a great range of books and other literature regarding genealogy in the West Riding of Yorkshire, please click here to see what is currently available.

To carry out a search for marriage records within a particular parish in West Riding of Yorkshire please click the parish name in the table below :

"Yorkshire, maritime county of England; bounded N. by Durham and the Tees, NE. and E. by the North Sea, S. by the Humber and Lincolnshire, Notts, and Derbyshire, SW. by Cheshire, W. by Lancashire, and N.W. by Westmorland; length, E. and W., 96 miles; breadth, 80 miles; area, 3,882,851 acres, population 2,886,564. Yorkshire is the first county of England in point of size, and the third in point of population. From the mouth of the Tees to Flamborough Head the coast is bold and rocky; from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head it lies low. The interior presents the appearance of a great central valley stretching SE. to the Humber, and flanked on either side by heights - on the E. by the Cleveland Hills and the Wolds, and on the W. by the Pennine chain. Yorkshire takes high rank as an agricultural, manufacturing, and mining county. It is well supplied with every means of communication. It has from an early period been divided into 3 Ridings - viz., East, North, and West, besides the Ainsty or Liberty of the city of York. Each Riding has a lord-lieutenant and a separate court of quarter sessions and a commission of the peace, and statistically is treated as a distinct county. It contains 26 wapentakes; 3 liberties; 1636 pars. with parts of 2 others; It is in the dioceses of York, Ripon, and Manchester." [Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887]

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