Bainton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Bainton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Neswick.

Alternative names: 

Riding: East Riding

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1561
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BAINTON, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Driffield, E. R. Yorkshire.

The township lies on the Wolds, 4½ miles W by S of Hutton Cranswick r. station, and 6 SW of Great Driffield. It has a post office under Driffield, and is a seat of petty sessions. Acres, 2,320. Real property, £4,411. Pop., 399. Houses, 78.

The parish includes also the township of Neswick. Acres, 3,280. Real property, £6,086. Pop., 465. Houses, 90. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £757. Patron, St. John’s college, Oxford. The church is ancient but very good.

The subdistrict comprises seven parishes and part of another. Acres, 31,014. Pop., 4,009. Houses, 759.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Paver’s Marriage Licences

It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.

1630 Ellis Foster, Bainton, and Frances Harrison, Kirkburn — either place.

Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Bainton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions, Bainton
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Bainton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Bainton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Bainton – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Bainton, 1600-1882
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bainton (Yorkshire)

Churchwardens accounts, poor rates, highway accounts, and poor law papers, 1794-1861
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bainton (Yorkshire)

Driffield Wesleyan (later Trinity) Methodist Circuit baptisms 1878-1891 : Circuit eventually comprised chapels at Bainton, Beeford, Brigham, Cranswick, Driffield, Fimber, Frodingham, Foston, Fridaythorpe, Garton, Lockington, Lund, Middleton, Nafferton, North Dalton, Skerne, Sledmere, Southburn, Tibthorpe, Wansford, Wetwang
Author:    Petch, Della

England, Yorkshire, Bainton, parish registers, 1873-1979
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bainton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Bainton, 1561-1892
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bainton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Bainton – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Bainton, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Bainton – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Churchwardens accounts, poor rates, highway accounts, and poor law papers, 1794-1861
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bainton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Bainton – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Bainton, 1782-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Neswick, 1782-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Driffield
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Harthill and Hull
  • Poor Law Union: Driffield
  • Hundred: Harthill
  • Province: York