Coxwold, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes, A-I  North Riding of Yorkshire  Coxwold

Guide to Coxwold, Yorkshire 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.

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Coxwold exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

List of Chapelry's in this Parish

 * Birdforth

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Warrington-Padgate Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Coxwold to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the COXWOLD PARISH  page.

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 1583.

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 FamilySearch Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain