Osmotherley, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Osmotherley

Parish History
Osmotherley St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Harlsey Castle, Harsley Castle, Foxton, West Harlsey, Ellerbeck, and Thimbleby.

OSMOTHERLEY (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Northallerton, wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 7 miles (E. N. E.) from Northallerton; containing, with the townships of Ellerbeck, West Harsley, and Thimbleby, 1354 inhabitants, of whom 1029 are in Osmotherley township. The parish comprises by admeasurement 7740 acres, and is watered by the Wiske and Cod-beck. There are some flax-mills and a manufactory of linen drills, &amp;c., carried on by Messrs. Yeoman and Company for thirty years, and employing about three hundred hands; also some quarries of freestone, extensive bleach-works, and cornmills. The village is romantically situated about half a mile from the road between Stokesley and Thirsk; the scenery of the neighbourhood presents a beautiful combination of hill and dale, and commands a fine view of the vale of Mowbray. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8. 10., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Ripon, with a net income of £120; impropriators, the mortgagees of Benjamin John Wetherell, Esq.: a vicarage-house was built in 1841. The church is a small neat structure, built about 50 years since, and incorporating the porch and tower of the original edifice. Here are places of worship for Quakers, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 486-491. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51196 Date accessed: 10 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 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.

The Durham Bishop's transcripts for the parish may be searched free online at FamilySearch Historical Records.

Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/200 Parish Register Transcripts Osmotherley Yorkshire


 * March [? 1660]-March [1663]
 * [April 1668]-April 1669 this is a photocopy of the [April 1668]-April 1669 transcript the original being held elsewhere as noted on the photocopy. The original is held at the Borthwick Institute York but their reference is not shown on their photocopy.
 * 1697-[?February 1698]
 * [March 1712-March 1713]
 * [March] 1714-[March 1715]
 * [March] 1718-[March 1719]
 * [March 1721- March 1722]
 * [March] 1726-[March 1727]
 * March 1759-March 1760
 * March 1760-1812

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Northallerton 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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