Bawtry Yorkshire Family History Guide

Bawtry, situated in the West Riding of Yorkshire, is a chapelry of Blyth Ancient Parish in Nottinghamshire. 

Alternative names: Bowtry

Riding: West Riding

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1653
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1627

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Everton, Nottinghamshire
• Austerfield
• Harworth, Nottinghamshire
• Scrooby, Nottinghamshire

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BAWTRY, a small town, a chapelry, and a subdistrict in the district of Doncaster, W. R. Yorkshire.

The town stands on the verge of the county, on the river Idle, and on the Great Northern railway, 8 miles SE of Doncaster. Part of it is low, and used to be subject to inundation; but part is high, and contains a market-place.

It has a station on the railway, a head post office, a banking office, a hotel, a good supply of water, a church, and two dissenting chapels, Independent and Wesleyan. The church is later English; consists of Roche abbey limestone; was built in 1350; and has a tower, added in 1712. A weekly market is held on Thursday; and fairs on Holy Thursday and 22 Nov.

An hospital for a priest and certain poor was founded in the neighbourhood about 1316. A farmhouse, a mile distant, occupies the site, and was formed of the materials of a palace of the Archbishops of York, inhabited by Cardinal Wolsey and Archbishop Sandis. Bawtry-Hall is a seat of Lord Houghton. Acres of the town, 244. Real property, £3,514. Pop., 1,011. Houses, 229.

The chapelry includes also the township of Austerfield. Pop., 1,400. Houses, 318. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £500. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The subdistrict comprises six parishes, and part of three others. Acres, 31,765. Pop., 5,623. Houses, 1,202.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Bawtry – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Nicholas’ Church, Bawtry, monumental inscriptions
Author: Doncaster Society for Family History

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

England, Yorkshire, Bawtry – Church records ( 5 )
Births and baptisms, 1819-1837
Author: Independent Church (Ranskill)

Bishop’s transcripts for Bawtry, 1627-1860
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Bawtry (Yorkshire)

Church records
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Bawtry, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Bawtry, St. Nicholas parish registers, 1760-1882
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Bawtry (Yorkshire); Nottinghamshire Archives Office

West Doncaster Deanery burials : directories, notes & graphics
Author: Doncaster & District Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Bawtry – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Bawtry, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Bawtry, York, England ; christenings, 1813-1860
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Yorkshire, Bawtry – History ( 1 )
A topographical history and description of Bawtry and Thorne : with the villages adjacent
Author: Peck, W.

England, Yorkshire, Bawtry – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Bawtry township, 1784-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments, Bawtry, 1801-1900
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Historical Maps

Bawtry 1901 Yorkshire Sheet 291.12 This map covers the small town of Bawtry, just south of Doncaster and at the southern edge of Yorkshire. Features include town centre with individual buildings shown, St Nicholas church, railway with southern edge of Bawtry station, River Idle, chapels, Bawtry Hall, Town Hall, High Street, St Mary Magdalene church, Bawtry Bridge etc. On the reverse we include a large extract of the 1st edition six-inch map of 1850, covering Bawtry and Austerfield. View Map Details*

Administration

• County: Yorkshire
• Civil Registration District: Doncaster
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Nottingham
• Diocese: York
• Rural Deanery: Retford
• Poor Law Union: Doncaster
• Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
• Province: York