Roos, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Roos is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Bracken Hill.
Alternative names: Rooss
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1571
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Burton Pidsea
- Garton in Holderness with Grimston
- Halsham
- Owthorne
- Tunstall in Holderness
- Hilston
- Humbleton with Elsternwick
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ROOS (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Patrington, Middle division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. riding of York, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Patrington; containing, with part of the township of Owstwick, 640 inhabitants.
The parish comprises by measurement 2324 acres, of which two-thirds are arable and one-third pasture; the surface is undulated, and the soil a clayey loam, with gravel.
The manor was from the reign of Henry I. the seat and property of the noble family of Roos, one of whose barons had the glory of leading the second division of the English army at the battle of Cressy. The site is still visible of the castle of the former barons; and in part of the old moat have been lately found a misericorde dagger and some amber beads. The place confers the original title on the present family of De Ros.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £19, and in the patronage of the Rev. Christopher Sykes, with a net income of £602: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1783. The church is chiefly in the early rectilinear style, but there is one fine curvilinear window in the north side of the chancel; the aisles were rebuilt, and the interior generally repaired and refitted, in 1842, at the expense of the rector.
There are places of worship for Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Patrington
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: South Holderness
- Poor Law Union: Patrington
- Hundred: Holderness
- Province: York