North Otterington with Thornton le Moor and Thornton le Beans, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  North Riding  North Otterington



Parish History
North Otterington with Thornton le Moor and Thornton le Beans is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Crosby Cote, Thornton le Moor, and Thornton le Beans.

OTTERINGTON, NORTH (St. Michael), a parish, in the unions of Northallerton and Thirsk, partly in the wapentake of Allertonshire, and partly in that of Birdforth, N. riding of York, 3½ miles (S.) from Northallerton; containing, with the townships of Thornton-le-Beans and Thornton-le-Moor, 688 inhabitants, of whom 79 are in the township of North Otterington. There is a chapel of ease at Thornton-le-Moor.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 491-495. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51197 Date accessed: 08 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.

Deposited Parish registers at North Yorkshire Record Office Bap 1598-1909 Marr 1598-1986 Bur 1598-1879 Bishop's Transcripts: 1661, 1662, 1669, 1673, 1697, 1711, 1718, 1721, 1725, 1759, 1760-1812, (all at Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections Service). The following are at Borthwick Institute of Historical Research: 1813-1839, 1844-1856

Bishop's Transcripts references see Durham Bishop's Transcripts: The Howe Manuscript Collection

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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
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Web sites
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