Bellerby Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Bellerby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1770 from Spennithorne Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Spennithorne St John the Evangelist

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1847
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1847

Nonconformists include: Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BELLERBY, a township-chapelry in Spennithorne parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 1½ mile N of Leyburn r. station. It has a post office under Bedale.

Acres, 2,540. Real property, £3,038. Pop., 391. Houses, 90. Bellerby Park is the seat of J. Chaytor, Esq.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £78. Patron, J. Chaytor, Esq.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BELLERBY, a chapelry, in the parish of Spennithorn, union of Leyburn, wapentake of Hang-West, N. riding of York, 13 miles (N. N. W.) from Bedale; containing 350 inhabitants.

It is situated on the road from Richmond to Leyburn, and comprises 2917a. 2r. 28p.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £70; patron and impropriator, Mr. Chaytor: the tithes were commuted for land in 1770. The chapel is a small edifice.

There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Bellerby – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions Leyburn area
Author:    Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society

St. John, Bellerby, N. Yorks, monumental inscriptions
Author:    Corner, Michael; Pound, Lorna

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

England, Yorkshire, Bellerby – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Bellerby, 1847-1861
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Bellerby (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Bellerby, 1847-1875
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Bellerby (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Leyburn
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Catterick
  • Diocese:    Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery:    Catterick
  • Poor Law Union:    Leyburn
  • Hundred:    West Hang
  • Province:    York