Husthwaite, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Husthwaite St Nicholas is an Ancient parish and had the chapelry of St Mary Carlton Husthwaite, Yorkshire within the parish until St mary became a separate parish.

HUSTHWAITE, a parish, in the union of Easingwould, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York; 4 miles (N. by W.) from Easingwould. At Carlton is a chapel of ease. HUSTHWAITE, a village, a township, and a parish in Easingwold district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a rising ground, near the Thirsk and Driffield railway, 4 miles N by W of Easingwold; and has a station, of the name of Husthwaite-Gate, on the railway, and a post office under Easingwold. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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
Husthwaite 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