Thornton Dale Yorkshire Family History Guide

Thornton Dale is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Thornton Dale, Farmanby and Ellerburn and Thornton Dale and Ellerburn.

Alternative names: Thornton le Dale

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THORNTON-DALE, a parish, with two townships, in Pickering district, N. R. Yorkshire; 2¾ miles E of Pickering r. station. It has a post-office under York.

Acres, 1,066. Real property, £4,801. Pop., 893. Houses, 201. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £396. Patron, the Rev. J. R. Hill. The church is late decorated English, and was restored in 1866.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, a grammar-school and alms houses with £500 a year, and national schools.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-Dale – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Thornton Dale Cemetery monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

Thornton Dale monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-Dale – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Thornton-Dale, 1604-1855
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornton-Dale (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-Dale, parish registers, 1538-1969
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornton-Dale (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1538-1861
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornton-Dale (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-Dale – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Thornton Dale, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-Dale – Genealogy ( 1 )
The Priestmans of Thornton-le-Dale and some of their descendants : their religious labours and creaturely activities, intermixed with extracts from the earliest records of the monthly meetings of the people call’d Quakers
Author:    Priestman, Sydney H., 1876-1972; Priestman, James Dent; Doncaster, Stephen, 1919-

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-Dale – History ( 2 )
Thornton Dale through the ages
Author:    Snowden, Keith

Thornton-le-Dale : being the history of the people of Thornton, Ellerburn-cum-Farmanby, Roxby, Dalby, and Thornton Marishes from the earliest times to the present day
Author:    Jeffery, Reginald Wellbury

England, Yorkshire, Thornton-Dale – Minorities ( 1 )
The Priestmans of Thornton-le-Dale and some of their descendants : their religious labours and creaturely activities, intermixed with extracts from the earliest records of the monthly meetings of the people call’d Quakers
Author:    Priestman, Sydney H., 1876-1972; Priestman, James Dent; Doncaster, Stephen, 1919-

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