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

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)

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