Cowthorpe, Yorkshire Genealogy
Guide to Cowthorpe, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Cowthorpe, Yorkshire | |
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Type | Ancient Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Claro |
County | Yorkshire |
Poor Law Union | Wetherby |
Registration District | Knaresborough |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1568 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1604 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Pontefract |
Diocese | Pre-1836 - York; Post-1835 - Ripon |
Province | York |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York |
Location of Archive | |
Yorkshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
COWTHORP (St. Michael), a parish, in the Upper division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York, 3¾ miles (N. E. by N.) from Wetherby; containing 115 inhabitants. [1]
Resources
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
Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Cowthorpe exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:
FREG = FreeREG - free[2] | |||||
FS = FamilySearch.org | |||||
JOIN = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk - (£) |
COWTHORPE PARISH (1568) Online Records | ||||||
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FREG | 1568-1797 | 1566-1812 | 1568-1797 | |||
FS | 1569-1855 |
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1568-1836 |
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1844-1855 |
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JOIN | None |
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1568-1812 |
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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 1568.
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848) pp. 710-713. Date accessed: 14 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Yorkshire West Riding,' FreeREG, accessed 22 October 2014.