Coxwold, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Coxwold St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire, which is extensive.Other places in the parish include: Angram Grange, Yearsley, Byland Abbey, Byland cum Membris, Grange Angram, Newbrough, Newburgh, Oulston, Thornton cum Baxby, Thornton on the Hill, Thornton on the Hill and Baxby, Thornton on the Hill cum Baxby, Wass, Wildon Grange, and Baxby.

The Church of St Michael Thirsk Bank Coxwold has been designated as a grade I listed building British Listed Building Coxwold is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yokshire See also Coxwold Wikipedia and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 713-717  here.

Yearsley Church of Holy Trinity was formed from this parish in 1855 for a time as an ecclesiastical parish but was reunited. The civil parish of Yearsley was created in 1866 see also Yearsley Wikipedia

The Church of Holy Trinity was built in 1839 as a a chapel of ease in Well Lane Yearsley and has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

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
Coxwold parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the North Yorkshire County Record Office.

Poor Law Unions
Easingwold 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain