Deighton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  West Riding  Deighton



Parish History
Deighton was a chapelry of Northallerton, Yorkshire Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.

DEIGHTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Northallerton, wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 5½ miles (N. by E.) from Northallerton; containing 132 inhabitants. The township comprises by computation 1900 acres. The chapel, a neat edifice, was erected in 1715: the impropriate tithes have been commuted for £200, the vicarial for £108. 10., and within the chapelry are above 45 acres of glebe.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 23-28. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50916 Date accessed: 08 April 2011.

Civil Registration
Records from the Northallerton registration district held at the North Yorkshire Registration Service are included in the online index available at Yorkshire BMD for post 1837 events; view the coverage table to check progress on the availability of index search.

Marriages include


 * Church of England marriages.
 * Civil Marriages at register offices, or non-conformist churches where a registrar was required to be present at the ceremony.
 * Authorised Person marriages. These cover the non-conformist places of worship which applied to keep their own registers as a result of the Marriage Act, 1898 (bringing them into line with Jewish and Quaker marriages which had this status since 1837). In such cases an 'Authorised Person' (usually the minister or priest) recorded the ceremony instead of the registrar. Earlier weddings in these places would be included with civil marriage registers.

A secondary index of 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 however this secondary index may omit the event and may not contain the detail of the Yorkshire BMD index

Church records
The Bishop's Transcripts collection of Durham Bishop's transcripts are available free online at FamilySearch Historical Records.

Deighton (in Northallerton Yorkshire) Parish register Transcripts Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/74 Bishop's Transcripts Image only Collection FamilySearch Historical Records [March 1661]-March [?1663] May 1673-May 1674 March 1715-March 1716 1718- [April 1719] In addition some transcripts for Deighton appear in the Northallerton parish series in Durham Bishop's Transcripts: The Howe Manuscript Collection reference HBT 25-27

25 March 1714-25 March 1715 [25 March] 1727- 25 March 172[8], 25 March 1729- 25 March-1731, (Deighton transcript [25 March] 1727 – [25 March] 1728 in included with Northallerton transcripts)

Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Northallerton 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

Web sites
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