Bilsdale, Yorkshire Family History Guide

Bilsdale is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1745 from Helmsley with Sproxton, Rievaulx and Carlton Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Chopgate, Chapgate, Chapelgate, Chapel Yate, Bilsdale West, Bilsdale Low Midcable, West Side, Bilsdale High, Bilsdale East-side, Crossett, Raisdale, Urra, and Bilsdale High-West-side.

Alternative names: Bilsdale Kirkham, Bilsdale Midcable, Bilsdale Priory

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1590
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1609

Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BILSDALE-MIDCABLE, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 7 miles (N. N. W.) from Helmsley; containing, with Bilsdale-Kirkham, 738 inhabitants.

This place is on the east side of Ryedale, and includes the hamlets of Crosett and Chapel-Yate; it comprises by computation 8380 acres, of which a large portion is high moorland. The chapel, built about 20 years since, and dedicated to St. Hilda, is a neat structure with a square tower: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Helmsley, and has a net income of £91.

There is a place of worship for the Society of Friends. Upon Studfast hill, in this district, the site of a Druids’ temple was discovered in 1824.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Bilsdale – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Monumental inscriptions for St. John’s Churchyard, Bilsdale Midcable, 1900-1974

Monumental inscriptions, St. Hilda, Bilsdale (North Yorkshire)
Author:    Cleveland Family History Society

Monumental inscriptions, St. John, Bilsdale Midcable
Author:    Sampson, Alex; Cleveland Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Bilsdale – Census ( 2 )
Census returns for Bilsdale Midcable, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Bilsdale, West Side, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Bilsdale – Census – 1851 ( 1 )
Bilsdale surveys, 1637-1851
Author:    Ashcroft, M. Y. (Michael Yeomans); Hill, Audrey M.

England, Yorkshire, Bilsdale – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Bilsdale, 1609-1864
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bilsdale (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Bilsdale, parish registers, 1813-1894
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bilsdale (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Bilsdale, 1590-1812
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bilsdale (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Bilsdale – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Bilsdale or Bilsdale Midcable, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Bilsdale Midcable, York, England ; christenings, 1728-1812
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Bilsdale Midcable, York, England ; marriages, 1755-1812
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Yorkshire, Bilsdale – Manors ( 1 )
Bilsdale surveys, 1637-1851
Author:    Ashcroft, M. Y. (Michael Yeomans); Hill, Audrey M.

England, Yorkshire, Bilsdale – Maps ( 1 )
Bilsdale maps, 1781-1857

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Helmsley
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Riddal
  • Poor Law Union: Helmsley
  • Hundred: Ryedale
  • Province: York