South Cowton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Cowton South

Parish History
The redundant church of St Mary is in an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1783 from Gilling_near_Richmond,_Yorkshire Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: North Cowton, South Cowton with Pepper Hall, Pepperhall, and Pepper Hall.

COWTON, SOUTH, a township and chapelry, in the parish of Gilling, union of Northallerton, wapentake of Gilling-East, N. riding of York, 5¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Catterick; containing 425 inhabitants, of which 152 are in the township. On "Cuton Moor," situated between this place and East Cowton, was fought the famous battle of the Standard, in which the English defeated the Scots, with the loss of 10,000 men: the spot is still called Standard Hill. The township comprises 2118a. 2r. 18p., of rather poor but wellcultivated land, and is intersected by the road from Richmond to Darlington, near which is the hamlet; the York and Newcastle railway passes on the east at a distance of about two miles. There is a beautiful view from Astley hill of the Hambleton range, extending all the way to the sea. Pepper Hall, the seat of the Hon. Richard Pepper Arden, is a handsome mansion with extensive pleasure-grounds. The living is a perpetual curacy in the patronage of the Vicar of Gilling, with a net income of £39; impropriator, John Webb, Esq. The chapel is dedicated to St. Mary.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 710-713. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50901 Date accessed: 09 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.

This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in date.

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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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