Kilburn, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North of Riding  Kilburn



Parish History
Kilburn St Mary is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1732 from chapelry in Coxwold, Yorkshire Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Hood Grange, Wass, Thorpe le Willows, and Oldstead.

KILBURN (St. Mary), a parish, in the unions of Thirsk and Helmsley, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York, 7 miles (E. by S.) from Thirsk; comprising the townships of Kilburn, Oldstead, Thorpele-Willows, and Wass; and containing 837 inhabitants, of whom 556 are in the township of Kilburn. This place was within the liberty of Ripon, from which jurisdiction it was separated by an act of the 1st of Victoria. It was anciently the retreat of Robert de Alneto, one of the monks of Whitby, who lived in solitary seclusion in a small hermitage at Hood Grange, within two miles of the present village: this hermitage, in 1138, was converted by Robert de Mowbray into a Cistercian abbey, but the monks subsequently removed to Old Byland, and afterwards to Byland, near Coxwold. The parish comprises by computation 5900 acres. At Hood Hill is a sandstone-quarry, now rarely wrought, the material being of a soft and perishable nature. The village consists of High and Low Kilburn, the former situated on the acclivity of a lofty eminence, commanding extensive and interesting views, and the latter on the banks of a small rivulet at its base. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £99; patron and appropriator, the Archbishop of York, whose tithes have been commuted for £405: the glebe comprises nearly 4 acres. The church is an ancient structure. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 667-672. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51074 Date accessed: 28 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 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.

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Census records
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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

Web sites
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