Place:Stainforth (near Doncaster), West Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

source: Family History Library Catalog

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Stainforth is a small town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England. It is around 7 miles (11 km) northeast of the centre of Doncaster, close to Hatfield and Thorne. It has a population of 6,342, reducing slightly to 6,282 at the 2011 Census.

From 1894 until the municipal reorganization of 1974, Stainforth was located in Thorne Rural District. It was also in the ecclesiastical parish of Hatfield in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill.

Stainforth was a mining village, with the Hatfield Main Colliery at its centre. The colliery was open for around 80 years, from when it entered full production in 1921 up to it closing in August 2001.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Stainforth, South Yorkshire.

Bramwith Sand

GENUKI quotes from a gazetteer of the 1820s:

"BRAMWITH SAND, (or South Bramwith) in the parishes of Barnby Dun and Hatfield, and wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5 miles SW. of Thorne."

The settlement is not found independently amongst entries in Wikipedia or A Vision of Britain through Time, but is mentioned in the gazetteer reference for Stainforth (near Doncaster).

In the 1891 census, an area is referred to as Stainforth with Bramwith. From this and a list of boundary changes of 1884 in A History of Britain through Time would appear that Bramwith was absorbed into Stainforth at this time.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Stainforth. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Hatfield provides a list of useful resources for the local area. (The FamilySearch reference for Stainforth leads to the Stainforth (near Giggleswick) entry.)
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Stainforth.
• A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.