Middleton on the Wolds Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Middleton on the Wolds is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Alternative names: Middleton, Middleton (near Lockington).

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1678
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MIDDLETON, a village and a parish in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands on the Wolds, 5½ miles WNW of Lockington r. station, and 8½ NW of Beverley; and has a post office, of the name of Middleton-on-the-Wolds, under Beverley.

The parish comprises 3,340 acres. Real property, £5,733. Pop., 701. Houses, 150. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to Lord Londesborough.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £917. Patron, the Rev. H. D. Blanchard. The church has a tower, and is good.

There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Use for:
England, Yorkshire, Middleton-on-the-Wolds

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Lockington) – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Middleton on the Wolds
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

Middleton on the Wolds Cemetery : monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Lockington) – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Middleton on the Wolds, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Lockington) – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Middleton, near Lockington, 1600-1867
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Middleton (near Lockington, Yorkshire)

Churchwardens accounts, 1829-1862
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Middleton (near Lockington, Yorkshire)

Driffield Wesleyan (later Trinity) Methodist Circuit baptisms 1878-1891 : Circuit eventually comprised chapels at Bainton, Beeford, Brigham, Cranswick, Driffield, Fimber, Frodingham, Foston, Fridaythorpe, Garton, Lockington, Lund, Middleton, Nafferton, North Dalton, Skerne, Sledmere, Southburn, Tibthorpe, Wansford, Wetwang
Author:    Petch, Della

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Lockington), parish registers : St. Andrew’s Church, 1836-2000
Author:    Church of England. St. Andrew’s Church (Middleton, Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Middleton-on-the-Wolds : parish registers 1678 to 1837
Author:    Cawley, Andrea; East Yorkshire Family History Society

Parish registers for Middleton, near Lockington, 1678-1892
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Middleton (near Lockington, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Lockington) – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Middleton on the Wolds, Yorks., Eng.

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Lockington) – Probate records ( 1 )
Wills, 1539-1555
Author:    Church of England. Peculiar Court of the Provost of the Collegiate Church of St. John (Beverley)

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Lockington) – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Middleton, 1782-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Driffield
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Peculiar of the Provost of the Collegiate Church of St John, Beverley
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    Harthill and Hull
  • Poor Law Union:    Driffield
  • Hundred:    Harthill
  • Province:    York