Cottingham, Yorkshire Family History Guide

Cottingham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Skidby is a chapelry of Cottingham.

Other places in the parish include: Willerby near Hull, Willerby, St John, Newland near Hull, Newland, Kingston upon Hull St John, Clough Road, and Dunswell.

Alternative names: Kingston upon Hull St Mary

Riding: East Riding

Parish church: St. Mary the Virgin

Parish registers begin:

Cottingham

Parish registers: 1563
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598

Kingston upon Hull St John

Parish registers: 1833
Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COTTINGHAM, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Sculcotes district, E. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands near the Hull and Scarborough railway, 4½ miles NW by N of Hull; has a station on the railway, and a post office under Hull; and was once a market-town.

The parish includes also the hamlets of Dunswell and Newland. Acres, 9,495. Real property, £31,275. Pop., 3,131. Houses, 693. The property is much sub-divided. A moated baronial fortalice of the Lords Wake stood here, on Castle Hill; and was burnt down in 1541. A monastery of Augustinian canons also was founded here, in 1324, by the Wakes. Some country residences of the Hull merchants are here. Part of the land is disposed in market gardens. An intermitting spring flows at intervals of two or three years.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £124. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church is cruciform, early English, and perpendicular; has a lofty central tower; and contains several monumental brasses, one of them perhaps the finest in the kingdom.

The p. curacy of Newland is a separate benefice. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. A school has £40 from endowment; and other charities £29.

The sub-district contains also Willerby township Acres, 10, 315. Pop., 3, 391. Houses, 745.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

COTTINGHAM (St. Mary the Virgin), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Sculcoates, Hunsley-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, E. riding of the county of York, 4½ miles (N. W.) from Hull; containing 2618 inhabitants.

This place is of considerable antiquity, and was known as of some importance when Domesday book was compiled. Leland, in his Collectanea, states that William d’Estoteville or Stuteville, sheriff of Yorkshire, entertained King John here, and obtained from that monarch, in the year 1200, permission to hold a market and fair, and to embattle and fortify his residence. This noble mansion, called Baynard Castle, continued for ages a distinguished monument of feudal grandeur; it was in the possession, successively, of the Stutevilles, the Bigods, and de Wakes.

It is stated on credible authority, that Henry VIII., when at Hull, learning that the lady of Lord de Wake, the then owner of the castle, was remarkable for her beauty, sent to apprise her lord of his intention to dine with him on the following day; but Lord de Wake, apprehending that the object of the king was the dishonour of his wife, directed his steward, on the night on which the intimation was received, to set fire to the castle, which was accordingly burnt to the ground, and the royal visit thus prevented.

In the 15th of Edward II., Thomas, Lord de Wake, began to establish here a monastery for Augustine canons, which, about the year 1324, was removed to the extra-parochial liberty of Newton, or Howdenprice; its revenue at the Dissolution was estimated at £178. 0. 10.: there are no remains.

The parish comprises 9495a. 3r. 8p., of which 4562 acres are arable, 4536 meadow and pasture, 144 wood, and 251 garden land, a large portion of the last being appropriated to the cultivation of vegetables and other horticultural produce for the market at Hull, which place is also in a measure supplied with milk and butter from this neighbourhood.

A great part of the parish is a plain, lying between the Wolds and the river Hull, which forms the eastern boundary, and separates Cottingham from the parishes of Sutton and Waghen; about 2000 acres are upon the declivity of the hills, lying immediately on limestone rock. There is much diversity of soil, from a light gravel to a strong tenacious clay.

The village is large, very agreeably situated at the eastern foot of the Wolds, and contains several highly respectable houses: there are two breweries, and a carpet manufactory; and the Tweeddale Patent Tile Company have lately erected extensive works for the manufacture of bricks and tiles by steam. The Hull and Bridlington railway has a station here, about midway between the stations of Hull and Beverley; and the river affords easy conveyance for agricultural produce, coal, lime, &c. The market and one of the fairs have been discontinued, but a fair is held on the festival of St. Martin.

The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Skidby annexed, valued in the king’s books at £106. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £124; appropriator, the Bishop of Chester. The great tithes of Cottingham have been commuted for £918, and the bishop’s glebe consists of 442 acres. The church is a spacious and handsome edifice built in 1272, with a light and beautiful tower rising from the centre; and contains several elegant monuments, particularly of the family of Burton, and in the chancel an ancient tombstone to the memory of the founder, Nicholas de Stuteville.

A small additional church was built by subscription, at Newland, in 1833. There are places of worship for Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans. A free school is principally supported from a bequest of land, now producing about £45 per annum, by Mr. Mark Kirby, in 1712. Some remains exist of the ramparts and ditches of Baynard Castle. Adjoining the ancient road called Keldgate, are intermitting springs, which sometimes flow copiously after remaining quiescent for several years.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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 George Farrer, Newland, Cottingham, and Elizabeth Bellard, widow Sculcoates
— either place.

1630 Michael Hatherwick, St. Nicholas, Beverley, and Trifenam Wilson, Cottingham
— either place.

1630 Thomas Woodmansey, Trinity, Hull, and Elizabeth Hudson, Cottingham — either
place.

1630 Peter Wrieth ? and Cecily Shotton, Cottingham — there.

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.

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Administration

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