Middleton with Cropton and Lockton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Middleton with Cropton and Lockton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Lockton is a chapelry of Middleton with Cropton and Lockton.

Other places in the parish include: Wrelton, Middleton with Cropton St Gregory, Middleton and Aislaby, Hartoft, Cropton, Cawthorne, Cawthorn, Aislaby near Pickering, and Aislaby.

Alternative names: Middleton, Middleton near Pickering, Middleton with Cropton, Middleton in Pickering Lythe

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Middleton with Cropton and Lockton

  • Parish registers: 1671
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622

Middleton with Cropton St Gregory

  • Parish registers: 1713
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1603

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Middleton

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MIDDLETON, a township and a parish in Pickering district, N. R. Yorkshire.

The township lies adjacent to the Whitby railway, 1¼ mile NW of Pickering. Acres, 1,310. Real property, £1,409. Pop., 283. Houses, 59.

The parish contains also the townships of Aislaby, Wrelton,.Cawthorne, Hartoft. Cropton, and Rosedale East-Side, and the chapelry of Lockton. Post town, Pickering, under York. Acres, 25,450. Real property, £10,535; of which £100 are in mines, and £4 in quarries. Pop. in 1851,1,942; in 1861,2,100. Houses, 430. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to T. Mitchelton, Esq.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £100. Patrons, the Rev. A. Cayley and T. Smith, Esq. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower.

There are chapels of ease at Cropton and Lockton, chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a parochial school, and charities £52.

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

Cropton

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CROPTON, a township in Middleton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Severn, 4½ miles NW by N of Pickering. Acres, 3, 810. Real property, £1, 993. Pop., 360. Houses, 83. Here are some ancient British earth-works, and traces of an ancient road.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Pickering) – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Middleton near Pickering, monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

Monumental inscriptions Saint Gregory’s, Cropton, Pickering, North Yorkshire, 1760-1983
Author:    Aconley, B. E.

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Pickering) – Census ( 5 )
Census returns for Aislaby, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Cawthorn, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Lockton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Middleton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Wrelton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Pickering) – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Cropton, 1603-1868
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Cropton (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Lockton, 1608-1868
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Lockton (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Middleton, near Pickering, 1622-1868
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Middleton (near Pickering, Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Lockton (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Cropton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Cropton, parish registers, 1754-1980
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Cropton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Pickering), parish registers, 1671-1940
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Middleton (near Pickering, Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Pickering) – Church records – Indexes ( 6 )
Computer printout of Cropton, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Lockton, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Middleton by Pickering, Yorks., Eng

Cropton Chapelry in the parish of Middleton : index of the m.s. transcripts of the above registers
Author:    Harland, Neville; Church of England. Chapelry of Cropton (Yorkshire)

Parish of Middleton in Pickering Lythe : index of the m.s. transcripts of the above registers
Author:    Harland, Neville; Church of England. Parish Church of Middleton (near Pickering, Yorkshire)

Parish register printouts of Rosedale, Yorkshire, England ; christenings, 1616-1783
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Yorkshire, Middleton (near Pickering) – Schools ( 1 )
School register of admission, progress and withdrawal of Cropton Undenominational School from May 1865 to May 1912
Author:    Barteltt, Carol H.

Administration

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