Felixkirk, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Felixkirk, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
FELIX-KIRK (St. Felix), a parish, in the union of Thirsk, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York, 4 miles (N. E. by E.) from Thirsk; comprising the townships of Boltby, Felix-Kirk, Sutton-under-WhitestoneCliffe, and Thirlby; and containing 931 inhabitants, of whom 119 are in the township of Felix-Kirk.

Felixkirk with Boltby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Boldby, Boltby, Felixkirk Holy Trinity, Whitestone Cote, Sutton under Whitstone Cliffe, Thirlby, and Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Felixkirk like this:

FELISKIRK, or Felixkirk, a township and a parish in Thirsk district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies under the Hambleton hills, 3¾ miles NE of Thirsk r. station. Acres, 1, 170. Real property, £1, 561. Pop., 111. Houses, 21. The parish contains also the townships of Thirlby, Boltby, and Sutton-under-Whitstone-Cliffe; and its post town is Thirsk. Acres, 8, 381. Real property, £10, 466. Pop., 878. Houses, 193. The property is divided among a few. Mount St. John here, now belonging to the Elsley family, was anciently the site of a preceptory of the Knights of St. John. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £450. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church was almost entirely rebuilt in 1860; and was constructed on the model of the previous church, which had a Norman chancel and an early English nave. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans.

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 data content from chapelry registers of Felixkirk exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Warrington-Padgate Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Felixkirk to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the FELIXKIRK PARISH  page.

Deposited regiseters at the North Yorkshire Record Office

Baptisms: 1598-1993 Marriages: 1606-1982 Burials: 1598-1993

Bishop's Transcripts:

1598, 1600-1602, 1604, 1605, 1613, 1617, 1632-1641, 1661-1663, 1666,1668, 1673, 1677-1686, 1688, 1689, 1692, 1694-1698, 1700-1709, 1711-1716, 1718-1791, 1793-1805, 1807-1809, 1811-1844, 1847-1850, 1856-1859, 1861- 1866

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 1598.

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
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