Yorkshire Parish Records Digitised

The Telegraph & Argus reports that the West Yorkshire Archive Service is now available via Ancestry.co.uk (which unfortunately and quite frustratingly requires a subscription to see the complete document). The Brontës' parish records are there too, of course.

Details of some of the district’s most famous sons and daughters can be accessed via the internet as part of a new online archive.
More than eight million Yorkshire parish records, spanning almost 500 years, have been digitised by family history website Ancestry.co.uk and the West Yorkshire Archive Service and are available online from today.
The records detail baptisms, marriages and burials which took place in hundreds of West Yorkshire parishes between 1538 and 1980.
They include the baptisms of Charlotte Brontë and her siblings, who were born in the parish of Thornton between 1816 and 1820. The famous author’s burial record is also listed following her premature death at the age of 38. (Hannah Baker)

Picture: Charlotte Brontë's marriage certificate (1854).

The Yorkshire Post and the Yorkshire Evening Post also cover the story.  EDIT: Also, The Ilkley Gazette, Keighley News, Halifax Courier.

Categories: Brontëana