Fewston Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Fewston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Thurcross, Thruscross with Bramley Head, Thruscross, Great Timble with Gillbeck and White Cragg, Great Timble, Clifton with Norwood, Blubberhouses, and West End and Low Mill.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Fewston

  • Parish registers: 1594
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Thurcross

  • Parish registers: 1846
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FEWSTON, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in Otley district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Washburn, in Knaresborough forest, 4¼ miles SSW of Darley r. station, and 6 N of Otley.

Acres, 1, 760. Real property, £1, 950. Pop. in 1851, 399; in 1861, 496. Houses, 100. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of a large silk mill.

The parish contains also the townships of Blubberhouses, Great Timble, and Clifton-with-Norwood; the first of which has a post-office under Otley. Acres, 16, 584. Rated property, £8, 235. Pop., 1, 485. Houses, 313. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Thurcross, in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The parish church has a square tower, and is good. The church of Thurcross is small.

There is also a new chapelry of Blubberhouses, with p. curate; but no statistics of it, either civil or ecclesiastical, are returned.

There are three Wesleyan chapels, a Primitive Methodist chapel, two public schools, and charities £36.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Fewston – Cemeteries ( 4 )
Fewston Parish Church memorial inscriptions Author: Wharfedale Family History Group

Fewston St. Michael & Laurence parish churchyard : monumental inscriptions Author: Wharfedale Family History Group

Meagill Lane Cemetery, Fewston, memorial inscriptions Author: Ascough, Gwen; Oliver, Ivy

Monumental inscriptions from St. Lawrence’s church and churchyard at Fewston North Yorkshire

England, Yorkshire, Fewston – Census ( 2 )
Census returns for Clifton with Norwood, 1841-1891 Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Fewston, 1841-1891 Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Fewston – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Index to Fewston census returns 1851 Author: Wilde, K., Mrs.; Wharfedale Family History Group

England, Yorkshire, Fewston – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Fewston, 1600-1871 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Fewston (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Fewston, parish registers, 1594-1983 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Fewston (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Fewston parish church : burials 1593-1896 Author: Wharfedale Family History Group

Fewston St. Michael & All Angels : baptisms, burials and marriages 1593-1812 Author: Wharfedale Family History Group

The registers of the parish church (St. Michael and All Angels) of Fewston, in the county of York, A.D. 1593 to A.D. 1812 Author: Parkinson, Thomas; Church of England. Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels (Fewston)

England, Yorkshire, Fewston – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Fewston, Yorkshire, England, 1593-1845

England, Yorkshire, Fewston – Taxation ( 4 )
Land tax assessments for Clifton township, 1781-1832 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Fewston township, 1781-1832 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Great Timble township, 1781-1832 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Thurcross township, 1781-1832 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Otley
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Honour of Knaresborough
  • Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery: Pontefract
  • Poor Law Union: Wharfedale
  • Hundred: Claro
  • Province: York