Husthwaite, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Husthwaite St Nicholas is an Ancient parish and had the chapelry of St Mary Carlton Husthwaite, Yorkshire within the parish until St mary became a separate parish.

HUSTHWAITE, a parish, in the union of Easingwould, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York; containing 577 inhabitants, of whom 406 are in the township of Husthwaite, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Easingwould. At Carlton is a chapel of ease.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Husthwaite like this:

HUSTHWAITE, a village, a township, and a parish in Easingwold district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a rising ground, near the Thirsk and Driffield railway, 4 miles N by W of Easingwold; and has a station, of the name of Husthwaite-Gate, on the railway, and a post office under Easingwold.-The township comprises 1, 621 acres. Real property, £2, 613. Pop., 446. Houses, 93.—The parish contains also the township of Carlton-Husthwaite, and comprises 2, 431 acres. Real property, £3, 980. Pop., 616. Houses, 127. The property is much subdivided. Husthwaite House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £108. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is ancient, in tolerable condition; and has a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £ 7.

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 Husthwaite 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 Husthwaite to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the HUSTHWAITE PARISH  page.

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.

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 Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain