Folkton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Folkton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Fleeceston, East Flotmanby, West Flotmanby, Folkton and East and West Flotmanby, and Flixton.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1665
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FOLKTON, a township and a parish in the district of Scarborough and E. R. Yorkshire.

The township lies near the coast, 3½ miles W by S of Filey r. station, and 5½ S by E of Scarborough. Acres, 2, 540. Real property, £2, 595. Pop., 197. Houses, 29.

The parish contains also the township of Flixton; and its post town is Filey, under York. Acres, 5, 040. Real property, £4, 158. Pop., 559. Houses, 100.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £550. Patron, Admiral Mitford. The church is ancient, and was recently in disrepair.

There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Folkton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Folkton monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society. Scarborough Branch

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

England, Yorkshire, Folkton – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Folkton, 1600-1884
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Folkton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Folkton, parish registers, 1665-1978
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Folkton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Folkton – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Folkton, 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: Scarborough
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Dickering
  • Poor Law Union: Scarborough
  • Hundred: Dickering
  • Province: York