Norton Conyers, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  North Riding  Norton Conyers

Parish History
NORTON-CONYERS, a township, in the parish of Wath, wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 3½ miles (N. by E.) from Ripon; containing 60 inhabitants. This was the seat of Richard Norton, lord chief justice of England in the early part of the reign of Henry IV.; and subsequently of the gallant royalist, Sir Richard Graham, who, having received numerous wounds in the battle of Marston-Moor, and finding it lost, fled to his house here, and died the same night. The township comprises 985a. 1r. 9p., of which 368 acres are arable, 377 meadow and pasture, 98 woodland, and115 open common. A rent-charge of £156 has been awarded as a commutation for the tithes.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 442-446. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51186 Date accessed: 22 September 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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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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