Escrick Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Escrick is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Deighton and Deighton near York.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1617
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ESCRICK, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in York district, E. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on an affluent of the river Ouse, 4½ miles ESE of Copmanthorpe r. station, and 7 SSE of York; and has a post-office under York. Acres, 4, 120. Real property, £4, 913. Pop., 654. Houses, 128.

The parish contains also the township of Deighton, and part of that of Naburn. Acres, exclusive of the Naburn portion, 6, 067. Real property, exclusive of Naburn, £7, 498. Pop. Of the whole, 1, 237. Houses, 234. The property is divided among three.

Escrick Park belonged, in the time of James I., to Sir Thomas Knivet, the discoverer of the gunpowder plot, and gave him the title of Baron, on his being raised to the peerage; and it belongs now to Lord Wenlock.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £530. Patron, Lord Wenlock. The church is recent.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Escrick – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Escrick monumental inscriptions
Author: East Yorkshire Family History Society

Monumental inscriptions, Naburn
Author: East Yorkshire Family History Society

St. Matthew-Naburn [monumental inscriptions]
Author: York Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Escrick – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Index to 1851 census, Ouse & Derwent area : Naburn, Escrick, Dunnington
Author: East Yorkshire Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Escrick – Church records ( 7 )
Account books for Naburn, 1735-1772
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Naburn (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Escrick, 1608-1866
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Escrick (Yorkshire)

Parish chest material, 1654-1894
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Escrick (Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1653-1835
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Naburn (Yorkshire); Smith, Margaret E.

Parish registers for Escrick, 1617-1901
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Escrick (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Naburn, 1653-1901
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Naburn (Yorkshire)

Tithe rents for Naburn, 1880-1888
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Naburn (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Escrick – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Escrick, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Naburn, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Escrick – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest material, 1654-1894
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Escrick (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Escrick – Taxation ( 3 )
Land tax assessments for Deighton (near York), 1783-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

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

Land tax assessments for Naburn, 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: York
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Bulmer
  • Poor Law Union: York
  • Hundred: Ouse and Derwent
  • Province: York