Saxton, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Saxton or Saxton in Elmet is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Towton, Scarthingwell, Saxton with Scarthingwell, Saxton cum Scarthingwell, and Barkston.

Alternative names: Saxton in Elmet

Riding: West Riding

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Saxton Parish Registers

Saxton-in-Elmet Parish Registers 1538-1812

Paver’s Marriage Licences

It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.

1630 Robert Woodhall, Kippax, and Isabell Freeman, Saxton—either place.

Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.

Poll Books

Barkston Poll Book W.R. Yorkshire 1841

Poll Book of the West-Riding Election, July 1841 for Two Knights of the Shire for the West-Riding of Yorkshire.

Aberford Polling District

Barkston Township

N. В. The o after an Electors name, signifies that he is a yearly occupier at a rental of £50.

Name of ElectorsResidence
Ainsworth JosephBarkston
Bradley ThomasAberford
Clayford Jesse oBare arse [sic]
Dixon JohnSelby
Handley JohnScarthingwell Lodge
Kent JohnBarkston
Liddell RichardBarkston
Lawn John oSaxton
Lazenby CharlesBarkston
Nicholson S. Edward,Barkston
Squire WilliamBarkston
Simpson JosephBarkston
Standidge WilliamBarkston
Sissons RobertSherburn
Sissons JosephSherburn
Sissons JohnMethley
Sissons WilliamBarkston
Thompson JosephBarkston
Thirkhill GeorgeBarkston Inn
Wrightson RichardBarkston
Yeadon BenjaminStream field

Parish History

Saxton The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SAXTON, a village, a township, and a parish, in Tadcaster district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 2 miles W by S of Church-Fenton r. station, and 4¼ S by W of Tadcaster: and has a post-office under Tadcaster. The township contains also Scarthingwell village, and comprises 2,662 acres. Real property, £3,117. Pop., 360. Houses, 73.

The parish includes also the township of Towton, and comprises 4,022 acres. Pop., 461. Houses 97. The property is divided among a few. Towton Heath was the battlefield of the great battle of the Roses in 1461. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £76. Patron, Lord Ashtown. The church is tolerable. The churchyard contains the graves of some of the noblemen and gentlemen who fell on Towton field. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Roman Catholics, and a church school.

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

Barkston Langdale A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire 1822

Barkston, (which gives name to the wapentake) in the parishes of Sherburn and Saxton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Abberford, 5 from Tadcaster, 11 from Pontefract. – Pop. 251.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire By Thomas Langdale. Second Edition. Printed and Sold by J. Langdale; and sold by T. Langdale, Ripon. 1822.

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Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Tadcaster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of St Leonard’s Hospital, York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: New Ainsty
  • Poor Law Union: Great Preston Gilbert Union
  • Hundred: Barkstone Ash
  • Province: York