Bilton with Harrogate, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Chapel History
BILTON-WITH-HARROGATE, a township and two chapelries in Knaresborough parish and district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the North Midland railway, 2 miles W of Knaresborough; and contains the Post Town of Harrogate. Acres, 4,800. Real property, £29,286. Pop., 4,563. Houses, 905. The two chapelries are Bilton and Harrogate. Bilton was constituted in 1828. Pop., 407. Houses, 91. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £154. Patron, W. Sheepshanks, Esq. A school has an endowed income of £30. Harrogate, town and chapelry, will be noticed in the article Harrogate.

From: John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)

Civil Registration

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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 date.

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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

Web sites
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