Middleton with Cropton and Lockton, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Middleton with Cropton and Lockton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Lockton, Yorkshire is a chapelry of Middleton with Cropton and Lockton.

Other places in the parish include: Aislaby, Aislaby near Pickering, Cawthorn, Cawthorne, Wrelton, Hartoft, Middleton and Aislaby, Middleton with Cropton St Gregory, and Cropton.

The village and civil parish of Middleton is in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire Middleton Ryedale Wikipedia It should not be confused with the hamlet of Middleton near Harrogate in North Yorkshire.see Middleton Harrogate North Yorkshire Wikipedia

The Parish Church of St Andrew Church Lane Middleton in Ryedale has been designated asa grade I listed building British listed building

MIDDLETON, a parish, in the union and lythe of Pickering, N. riding of York; containing, with the chapelries of Cropton, Lockton, and Rosedale East Side, the townships of Aislaby, Cawthorn, Hartoft, and Wrelton, and the extra-parochial place of Turnhill, 1874 inhabitants, of whom 261 are in the township of Middleton, 1 mile (W. N. W.) from Pickering, on the road to Helmsley. There are chapels of ease at Cropton and Lockton, and a separate incumbency at Rosedale.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cropton like this:

CROPTON, a township in Middleton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Severn, 4½ miles NW by N of Pickering. Acres, 3, 810. Real property, £1, 993. Pop., 360. Houses, 83. Here are some ancient British earth-works, and traces of an ancient road.

The Methodist Chapel at Wrelton has been designated as a grade listed Building British listed building See also Wrelton Wikipedia for the village and civil parish of Wrelton

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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Poor Law Unions
Pickering 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