Sowerby (near Thirsk) Yorkshire Family History Guide

Sowerby (near Thirsk) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1763 from Thirsk Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1569
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Thirsk
• Carlton Miniott
• Topcliffe with Dalton
• Thirkleby
• Kirby Knowle

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SOWERBY, a township-chapelry, with a village, in Thirsk parish, N. R. Yorkshire; within Thirsk borongh, and adjacent on the SE to Thirsk r. station. It has a post-office under Thirsk.

Acres, 2,528. Real property, £7,044. Pop. in 1851, 1,079; in 1861, 1,248. Houses, 296. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £331. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is partly Norman.

There are a national school, and charities £8.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Sowerby (near Thirsk) – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Oswald, Sowerby, N. Yorkshire, monumental inscriptions
Author:    McLee, Carol A.; Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Sowerby (near Thirsk) – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Sowerby, near Thirsk, 1601-1864
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Sowerby (near Thirsk, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Sowerby (near Thirsk) – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Sowerby by Thirsk, Yorks., Eng

Administration

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