Cawood Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Cawood is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1810 from a chapelry in Wistow Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: 

Riding: West Riding

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1591
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1636

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CAWOOD, a village and a parish in Selby district, W. R Yorkshire.

The village stands on the river Ouse, 3 miles ESE of Ulleskelf r. station, and 4½ WNW of Selby. It was formerly a market town; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post office under Selby, and fairs on 13 May and 23 Sept.

A castle was built at it, about 920, by King Athelstane; given to the see of York; rebuilt, in a palatial style, in the time of Henry VI., by Archbishops Bowett and Kempe; held, for two years, by the royalists, in the wars of Charles I.; and taken and dismantled by the parliamentarians.

Many of the archbishops lived in the castle as their chief residence; Archbishop Matthew, famed for extemporaneous preaching, and Archbishop Montaigne, a native of Cawood, died in it; and Cardinal Wolsey retired to it after his fall, and was arrested in it by the Earl of Northumberland. The only remains of it are the gateway tower, square and buttressed, and a brick building, which seems to have been a chapel.

The parish comprises 2,840 acres. Real property, £6,566. Pop., 1,243. Houses, 301. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is early English and good; and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. An hospital has £76 from endowment; a school, £103; and other charities £252.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Cawood – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions Cawood : All Saints church, burial ground & cemetery
Author: City of York & District Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Cawood – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Cawood, 1636-1839
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cawood (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Cawood, 1591-1901
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cawood (Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Cawood – History ( 1 )
The history of the parishes of Sherburn and Cawood : with incidental accounts of the village and prebendal church of Wistow
Author: Wheater, William

England, Yorkshire, Cawood – Manors – Court records ( 2 )
Court rolls, 1690-1753
Author: Manor of Wistow and Cawood. Court (Yorkshire)

Court rolls, 1690-1850
Author: Manor of Cawood with Wistow. Court (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Cawood – Probate records ( 1 )
Original wills, bonds, inventories, 1549-1842
Author: Church of England. Prebendal Court (Wistow, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Cawood – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Cawood township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Selby
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Wistow
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: City of York and Ainsty
  • Poor Law Union: Selby
  • Hundred: Barkstone Ash
  • Province: York