Marton cum Grafton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Marton cum Grafton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Grafton.

Alternative names: Marton, Marton with Grafton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1648
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1650

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MARTON-CUM-GRAFTON, a parish in Great Ouseburn district, W. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles S by E of Aldborough, and 3¾ SSE of Boroughbridge r. station. Post town, Ouseburn, under York.

Acres, 1,198. Real property, £3,796. Pop., 454. Houses, 105. The property is subdivided. Wood Hills, on the border of Grafton, command an extensive and beautiful view.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £200. Patron, St. John’s College, Cambridge. The church is a small old structure, with a belfry; and was reported in 1859 as needing to be rebuilt.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, a handsome national school, and charities £8.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Marton-cum-Grafton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Marton with Grafton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Marton-cum-Grafton – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Marton-cum-Grafton, 1650-1867
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Marton-cum-Grafton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Marton-cum-Grafton, parish registers, 1648-1956
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Marton-cum-Grafton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Marton-cum-Grafton – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Marton cum Grafton, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Marton with Grafton, York, England ; marriages, 1738-1836
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Marton-cum-Grafton, Yorkshire, England ; christenings, 1738-1844
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Knaresborough
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the
  • Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Boroughbridge
  • Diocese:    Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery:    Boroughbridge
  • Poor Law Union:    Great Ouseburn Gilbert Union
  • Hundred:    Claro
  • Province:    York