Egton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Egton



Parish History
Egton St Hilda is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1807 from Lythe, Yorkshire Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Egton Bridge, Newbegin, Lumberhill, and Limber Hill.

EGTON (St. Hilda), a parish, in the union of Whitby, E. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh,N. riding of York, 6¼ miles (W. S. W.) from Whitby;containing 1102 inhabitants. The parish is intersected by the river Esk, and comprises 13,600 acres, of which nearly 7000 are open moorland: the vale of the Esk is richly wooded, and in many parts of romantic character:the soil, naturally of inferior quality, has been much improved by careful management. The principal substrata are, ironstone, freestone of good quality for building and for engineering purposes, and whinstone affording excellent materials for the roads; they are all wrought, and large quantities are sent by the Whitby and Pickering railway, which passes for several miles along the south and south-east boundaries of the parish,to Whitby, whence they are shipped to various places.The inhabitants obtained from William III. the grant of a weekly market and four annual fairs. The market is now held only on the Tuesday before Palm-Sunday, and on the Tuesdays following till Midsummer; there is a large market for cattle, on the Tuesday before Old Michaelmas-day. The fairs are held on the Tuesdays immediately preceding the 15th of February, the 11th ofMay, the 4th of September, and the 22nd of November,for horned-cattle, and for boots and shoes.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £120;patron and appropriator, the Archbishop of York, whose tithes have been commuted for £175. The church,which is situated about half a mile from the village, is said to have been consecrated by the Bishop of Damascusin 1349; but it is evidently of much earlier foundation,and, from the style of the doorway and the south aisle,which are of Norman character, must have been built soon after the Conquest. A second church, dedicated to St. Matthew, has been recently erected. There is a place of worship for Independents in the village; also a Roman Catholic chapel at Egton-Bridge. A fine spring here, called Cold Kell well, which is much resorted tofor strengthening weakly children, is supposed to have been connected with an ancient baptistry, of which the remains of the bath and the steps leading into it are ingood preservation. A priory was founded about the year 1200, by Johanna, wife of Robert de Turnham,who endowed it with lands in the parish, for the support of monks from the monastery of Grosmont, in Normandy: the priory was situated on the north bank of the Esk, in a beautifully sequestered spot now forming part of the line of the Whitby and Pickering railway;and at present, part of an old tomb, and a few sculptured stones, are the only remains of the establishment.When clearing some ground on the farm of Julian Park,a few years since, the foundations were discovered of an extensive range of buildings supposed to have been the baronial seat of the lords de Mauley.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 150-154. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50942 Date accessed: 06 May 2011.

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.

This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1622.

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St Hedda (Roman Catholic) known locally as the 'Cathedral of the Moors'. St Hedda's has strong links with priest and martyr Nicholas Postgate who was born in this area and ministered to the Catholic population of this part of the moors.



Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Whitby 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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Web sites
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