Kirkby Malzeard is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Upper Stonebeck, Stonebeck Up, Stonebeck Down, Stone Beck Up, Stone Beck Down, Skelden, Sigsworth, Moor, Lofthouse, Laverton, High and Low, Galphay, Fountains-earth, Down Stonebeck, Cozenley, Coal Hill, Bowthwaite, and Azerley.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Andrew
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1683
Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
KIRKBY-MALZEARD (St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the Lower division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York; comprising the townships of Azerley, Fountains-Earth, Grewelthorpe, Kirkby-Malzeard, Laverton, Stonebeck-Down, and Upper Stonebeck, and the chapelry of Hartwith with Winsley; and containing 5180 inhabitants, of whom 900 are in the town, 6 miles (W. N. W.) from Ripon.
This place was the property of the Mowbray family, afterwards dukes of Norfolk, whose castle here was demolished in the reign of Henry II., and one of whom, John de Mowbray, obtained for the inhabitants in the reign of Edward I. a charter for a weekly market and two annual fairs, which, after having been discontinued for several centuries, were revived in 1816. The market is on Wednesday, and the fairs are on Whit-Monday and October 2nd.
The parish comprises by computation 53,000 acres, of which 3421 are in the township of Kirkby-Malzeard; of the latter, 862 are common or waste. The surface is beautifully diversified with hills and dales, and the scenery abounds with interesting features; the soil in the valleys is fertile, and in good cultivation, but a considerable portion of the parish is high moor, affording only tolerable pasture.
The living is a vicarage, with that of Masham united; net income, as returned in 1831, £384; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The great tithes of the township of Kirkby-Malzeard have been commuted for £180, and the small for £55. The church has been repewed, and 350 additional sittings provided.
There are separate incumbencies at Dallowgill in Laverton, Grewelthorpe, Hartwith, Mickley in Azerley, Middlesmoor, and Ramsgill in Stonebeck-Down.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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England, Yorkshire, Kirkby-Malzeard – Census ( 8 )
Census returns for Azerley, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Census returns for Down Stonebeck, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Census returns for Fountains Earth, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Census returns for Grewelthorpe, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Census returns for Hartwith with Winsley, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Census returns for Kirkby Malzeard, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Census returns for Laverton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
Census returns for Upper Stonebeck, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Kirkby-Malzeard – Church records ( 15 )
Baptismal register, 1813-1837
Author: Ripon Parish Circuit (Yorkshire : Wesleyan Methodist)
Bishop’s transcripts for Grewelthorpe, 1854-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Grewelthorpe (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Hartwith, 1869-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hartwith (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Kirkby-Malzeard, 1840-1872
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Malzeard (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Mickley, 1854-1902
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Mickley (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Middlesmoor, 1840-1901
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Middlesmoor (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Ramsgill, 1847-1881
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Ramsgill (Yorkshire)
Circuit baptismal register, 1848-1870
Author: Yorkshire Circuit (Primitive Methodist)
England, Yorkshire, Grewelthorpe, parish registers, 1850-2004
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Grewelthorpe (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Hartwith, parish registers, 1751-1931
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hartwith (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Kirby-Malzeard, parish registers, 1653-1995
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Malzeard (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Middlesmoor, parish registers, 1700-1971
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Middlesmoor (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Ramsgill, parish registers, 1847-1976
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Ramsgill (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)
Kirkby Malzeard area registers : [transcription]
Author: Ripon, Harrogate & District Family History Group
Kirkby Malzeard register transcripts, 1683-1833 : copied from originals at Leeds Archives Department, MP18/2
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Malzeard (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Kirkby-Malzeard – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Hartwith-cum-Winsley, Yorkshire, England
Computer printout of Kirkby Malzeard, Yorkshire, England
England, Yorkshire, Kirkby-Malzeard – Taxation ( 7 )
Land tax assessments for Azerley township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Fountains-Earth township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Grewelthorpe township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Hartwith-cum-Winsley township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Kirkby-Malzeard township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Laverton township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Upper Stonebeck township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Ripon
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Masham
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Catterick
- Poor Law Union: Ripon
- Hundred: Claro
- Province: York