Crakehall Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Crakehall is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1840 from Bedale Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Langthorne.

Riding: North Riding

Parish church: St Gregory

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1840
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1869

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CRAKEHALL, a township in Bedale parish, and a chapelry in Bedale and Patrick-Brompton parishes, N. R. Yorkshire.

The township lies on an affluent of the river Swale, and on the Northallerton and Leyburn railway, 2¼ miles NW by W of Bedale; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Bedale. Acres, 1,752. Real property, £4,405. Pop., 583. Houses, 144.

The chapelry was constituted in 1840. Pop., 817. Houses, 195. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, the Rector of Bedale. The church is Gothic; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Crakehall – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions Patrick Brompton & Finghall area
Author: Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society

St. Gregory, Crakehall, N. Yks., monumental inscriptions
Author: McLee, Carol A.; McLee, Carol A.; Cleveland Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Crakehall – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census for Crakehall, Aiskew and Leeming Bar (North Yorkshire)
Author: Cleveland Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Crakehall – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Crakehall, 1869-1870
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Crakehall (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Crakehall, parish registers, 1840-1978
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Crakehall (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

FamilySearch – Birth Marriage & Death Census Migration & Naturalization Military Probate & Court

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bedale
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery: Catterick
  • Poor Law Union: Bedale
  • Hundred: East Hang
  • Province: York