Brompton by Sawdon, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Brompton All Saints (near Snainton) is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Snainton Snainton,_Yorkshire is a chapelry of Brompton (near Snainton). Other places in the parish include: Troutsdale and Sawdon.

BROMPTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Scarborough, Pickering lythe, N. riding of York; containing, with the townships of Sawdon and Troutsdale, and also the township of Snainton, part only of which is in the parish, 1534 inhabitants, of whom 609 are in the township of Brompton, 8 miles (S. W. by W.) from Scarborough. This is said to have been the residence of the kings of Northumberland; and on an eminence called Castle Hill, are the foundations of an ancient castle, about half a mile from which is Gallows' Hill, the place of execution for criminals within the barony. The Cayley family, of whom Sir William Cayley was distinguished for his services to King Charles I. and II., have been located here for more than two centuries. The parish comprises by measurement 10,180 acres, of which about 6000 are arable; the pasture, meadow, and heath cover 4000 acres, and about 180 are wood: the soil varies in quality in different situations, and the scenery in many parts is picturesque and beautiful. Limestone, in which some fossils are found, is quarried for building, for agricultural purposes, and the repair of roads; and a kind of slate is also obtained, used for roofing houses: a factory for bricks, coarse pots, &amp;c., employs about fifteen persons. A fair is annually held for the sale of pigs, from which the name of Swine Brompton is sometimes given to the parish. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £12; net income, £103; patron, Sir George Cayley, Bart., to whom the impropriation also belongs: the tithes were commuted in 1768, for land and a money payment. The church, which is one of the most spacious and elegant in the county, is in the decorated style, with a square tower surmounted by a graceful spire. At Snainton is a chapel of ease. There are three places of worship for Wesleyans, and one for Primitive Methodists, John of Brompton, a monkish historian, who compiled a laborious work on the early annals of England, including the period between the years 558 and 1198, is supposed to have been born here: he lived twenty years in the Benedictine abbey of Whitby, during the abbacy of John of Skelton, which commenced in 1413.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 395-400. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50834 Date accessed: 06 April 2011.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1584. Durham Bishop's Transcripts: The Howe Manuscript Collection and the image only collection of the Durham Bishop's Transcripts DDR/EA/PBT/2/42 at Record Search contain images of the two sequences of Bishop's transcripts.April 1660-April 1663 [March] 1697-[March 1698] March 1712-March 1713 [March ] 1726-[March 1727] April 1731-March 1732 This is a photostat copy of the April 1731-March 1732 transcript, the original of which is among the Durham Cathedral Chapter Muniments. 1769 1776 1780 1785 1806 1808 Including transcript for DEIGHTON (in Northallerton parish Yorkshire [March] 1726-[March 1727] See also separate series of transcripts for Deighton In 1998 the Howe Transcript manuscripts were found in the Dean and Chapter library at Durham. John James Howe had received the original transcripts from Cuthbert Mills Carlton who died in 1892 and bequeathed them to Howe who was Chief Clerk in the Durham Probate registry. The transcripts for Brompton referenced HBT 2-12 include: Lady Day [25 March] 1710-Lady Day [25 March] 1711 25 March 1714-25 March 1715 25 March 1716-25 March 1717 1724-1725 undated William Wood curate [25 March 1726 – 25 March 1726] undated (William Wood,curate) 1727-1728 undated William Wood curate 1729-1731 1732-1735 These were presented at visitation by the Dean and Chapter Durham member on 22 April 1735 at Northallerton. Brompton transcript 1727-1728 is included in the Northallerton transcript in the Howe collection. Judith Smeaton, of the North Yorkshire County Record Office compared the original parish register with the Howe Transcript for 1725-1726. She noted that although the transcript is easier to read than the original it is not an accurate or complete copy of the original.

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Census records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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