East Heslerton, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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East Heslerton is a chapelry of West Heslerton Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1859
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Heslerton, a parish in the E.R. Yorkshire, 9 miles NE by E of New Malton. It has a station on the N.E.R., and a post and money order office, of the name of West Heslerton, under York; telegraph office, at railway station.

It consists of the two townships of East and West Heslerton, and part of Yedingham township. Acreage of East Heslerton, 3586; of West Heslerton, 2955; population of East Heslerton township and ecclesiastical parish, 220; of West Heslerton township, 226; of the ecclesiastical parish, 232.

The living of East Heslerton is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £340 with residence. That of West Heslerton is a rectory in the diocese of York; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church of West Heslerton is ancient, with a turret, and contains monuments of the Foulis family, a monument to Sir C. Sykes, and a font of Caen stone presented in 1855 by Lord Downe. It was restored throughout in 1888.

A new and beautiful church was built in 1879 at East Heslerton by Sir T. Sykes, at a cost of £12, 000, from designs by Street. In the tower, visible from the road, are the four statues of the early fathers expelled by order of the Dean (Elliot) from the cathedral at Bristol during its restoration.

There are two Wesleyan chapels in this parish. Heslerton Hall is the seat of the lord of the manor.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

Parish Records

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England, Yorkshire, East Heslerton
England, Yorkshire, Heslerton, East
England, Yorkshire, West Heslerton

England, Yorkshire, Heslerton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
East & West Heslerton, monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Heslerton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for East and West Heslerton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Heslerton – Census – 1811 ( 1 )
Parish records, census and churchwardens’ accounts from West Heslerton, 1804-1879
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Heslerton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Heslerton – Census – 1821 ( 1 )
Parish records, census and churchwardens’ accounts from West Heslerton, 1804-1879
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Heslerton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Heslerton – Church records ( 9 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Heslerton, 1626-1866
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Heslerton (Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of East Heslerton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Heslerton, parish registers, 1886-1979
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of East Heslerton (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute

England, Yorkshire, West Heslerton, parish registers, 1859-1935
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Heslerton (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute

Parish chest materials from East Heslerton, 1855-1890
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Heslerton (Yorkshire)

Parish records, census and churchwardens’ accounts from West Heslerton, 1804-1879
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Heslerton (Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1560-1840
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Heslerton (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for East Heslerton, 1859-1900
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of East Heslerton (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Heslerton, 1561-1901
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Heslerton (Yorkshire)

The parish registers of West Heslerton (East Riding) : baptisms 1561-1837, marriages 1584-1837, burials 1561-1840
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Heslerton (Yorkshire); Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section; Catterick, Lily

England, Yorkshire, Heslerton – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of West Heslerton and East Heslerton, Yorkshire, England

England, Yorkshire, Heslerton – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for East Heslerton, 1783-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for West Heslerton, 1783-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

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