Cowesby, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Cowesby

Parish History
Cowesby St Michael and All Angels is an Ancient Parish which includes Kepwick within it's boundary.

The church of ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS consists of a chancel with a north vestry, a central tower, the ground stage of which is occupied by the quire, and an aisleless nave with a south porch. It was erected in 1846, in the Norman style, and is built of stone and roofed with stone slates.

There are six modern bells.

The plate, which is silver, consists of a cup, paten and flagon. The cup was presented by Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Lloyd in 1851, the paten by Harriet Wray in 1846, and the flagon by George Wray, M.A., rector of Leven, in 1846.

The registers date from 1679.

From A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 (1923), pp. 5-7. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64601&amp;strquery=Cowesby Date accessed: 14 May 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 neighbouring 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 1719.

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Thirsk Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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