Rathmel in Craven Yorkshire Family History Guide

Rathmel in Craven is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from Giggleswick Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Giggleswick Holy Trinity, Rathmell

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1842
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1843

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RATHMELL, a township, with a village, in Gigggleswick parish, and a chapelry partly also in Long Preston parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Ribble, 2¼ miles S of Settle r. station. Acres, 3, 382. Real property, £2, 990. Pop., 304. Houses, 55. The property is divided chiefly among three. The chapelry was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Settle. Pop., 342. Houses, 63. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £101. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The church is modern, in the pointed style; and has a low tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Rathmell – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Rathmell, Holy Trinity [monumental inscriptions]
Author:    Farrow, Dorothy; Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society. Ribble Valley Branch; Church of England. Chapelry of Rathmell (Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Rathmell – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Rathmell, 1843-1906
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Rathmell (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Rathmell, parish registers, 1856-1979
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Rathmell (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Rathmell – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Giggleswick, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Rathmell, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Rathmell – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Rathmell township, 1781-1831
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Settle
  • Probate Court:    Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese:    Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery:    Craven
  • Poor Law Union:    Settle
  • Hundred:    Staincliff and Ewcross
  • Province:    York