Cowsby, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Cowsby, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
COWSBY, a parish, in the union of Thirsk, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York, 6¼ miles (N. N. E.) from Thirsk; containing 108 inhabitants.

Cowsby (St Michael and All Angels) is an Ancient Parish which includes Kepwick within it's boundary. It is in the union of Thirsk, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York.

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 Cowsby exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

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

Records deposited at the North Yorkshire Record Office

Baptisms: 1719-1990 Marriages: 1719-1989 Burials: 1719-1978

Bishop's Transcripts:

1661-1662, 1669, 1697, 1718, 1768-1812, (all at Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections Service). The following are at Bothwick Institute University of York : 1813-1826, 1828-1835, 1837-1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1847- 1852, 1860, 1861

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 1719.

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
Thirsk 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