Cottam Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Cottam is a chapelry of Langtoft Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.

Alternative names: Langtoft Holy Trinity, Cotham

Riding: East Riding

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1837; see also Langtoft
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Society of Friends/Quaker.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COTTAM, or Cotton, a township in Langtoft parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 5½ miles N of Great Driffield. Acres, 2, 540. Real property, £2, 272. Pop., 95. Houses, 9. It forms a curacy with Langtoft; has an ancient chapel and font; and was the birth-place of Langtoft, the chronicler.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Yorkshire, Cottam – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Langtoft, 1587-1892
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Langtoft (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Cottam (Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Cottam – Probate records ( 1 )
Original wills, bonds, inventories, 1520-1845
Author:    Church of England. Prebendal Court (Langtoft, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Cottam – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Cottam, 1783-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Driffield
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Langtoft
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Dickering
  • Poor Law Union: Driffield
  • Hundred: Dickering
  • Province: York