Brompton (near Northallerton), Yorkshire Genealogy

Parish History
Brompton St Thomas (near Northallerton) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from chapelry in Northallerton, Yorkshire Ancient Parish.

BROMPTON, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Northallerton, wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 1¾ mile (N. N. E.) from Northallerton; containing 1535 inhabitants. In this chapelry is Standard Hill, where the memorable battle of the Standard was fought, on the 23rd of August, 1138; the battle being thus named from a large banner having been placed on a lofty pole, which was fixed on a waggon and borne with the troops. The manufacture of linen is carried on. The living is a perpetual curacy in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, with an income of £120: the chapel is ancient. Tithe rentcharges have been awarded amounting to £590. 0. 7., of which £423. 3. are payable to the impropriators, and £166. 17. 7. to the vicar; the glebe consists of 47 acres. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists; and two schools endowed with £10 per annum each.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 395-400. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50834 Date accessed: 06 April 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 Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Durham Bishop's Transcripts: The Howe Manuscript Collection and the image only collection of the Durham Bishop's Transcripts DDR/EA/PBT/2/42 at Record Search contain images of the two sequences of Bishop's transcripts.April 1660-April 1663 [March] 1697-[March 1698] March 1712-March 1713 [March ] 1726-[March 1727] April 1731-March 1732 This is a photostat copy of the April 1731-March 1732 transcript, the original of which is among the Durham Cathedral Chapter Muniments. 1769 1776 1780 1785 1806 1808 Including transcript for DEIGHTON (in Northallerton parish Yorkshire [March] 1726-[March 1727] See also separate series of transcripts for Deighton In 1998 the Howe Transcript manuscripts were found in the Dean and Chapter library at Durham. John James Howe had received the original transcripts from Cuthbert Mills Carlton who died in 1892 and bequeathed them to Howe who was Chief Clerk in the Durham Probate registry. The transcripts for Brompton referenced HBT 2-12 include: Lady Day [25 March] 1710-Lady Day [25 March] 1711 25 March 1714-25 March 1715 25 March 1716-25 March 1717 1724-1725 undated William Wood curate [25 March 1726 – 25 March 1726] undated (William Wood,curate) 1727-1728 undated William Wood curate 1729-1731 1732-1735 These were presented at visitation by the Dean and Chapter Durham member on 22 April 1735 at Northallerton. Brompton transcript 1727-1728 is included in the Northallerton transcript in the Howe collection. Judith Smeaton, of the North Yorkshire County Record Office compared the original parish register with the Howe Transcript for 1725-1726. She noted that although the transcript is easier to read than the original it is not an accurate or complete copy of the original.

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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.

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