East Cowton, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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East Cowton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Alternative names: Long Cowton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1754
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1614

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COWTON (East), a parish in Northallerton district, N. R. Yorkshire; on the Great North of England railway, ¾ of a mile S of Cowton r. station, and 6 ½ miles NNW of Northallerton. It has a post office under Northallerton.

Acres, 3, 310. Real property, £4, 923; of which £1, 312 are in railways. Pop., 472. Houses, 98. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £202. Patron, Kirby-Ravensworth Hospital. The church is good; and an endowed school has £27.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, East Cowton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions, All Saints & cemetery, East Cowton, N. Yks.
Author:    McLee, Carol A.; Cleveland Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, East Cowton – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census for Deighton, East and West Harlsey, East and South Cowton, Hutton Bonville, Birkby, and Little Smeaton
Author:    Cleveland Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, East Cowton – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for East Cowton, 1614-1870
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of East Cowton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, East Cowton, parish registers, 1754-1970
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of East Cowton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for East Cowton, 1754-1880
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of East Cowton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, East Cowton – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of East Cowton, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of East Cowton, York, England ; christenings, 1752-1848
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of East Cowton, York, England ; marriages, 1752-1836
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Yorkshire, East Cowton – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
England, Yorkshire, East Cowton, poor law records, 1894-1974
Author:    East Cowton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Administration

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