Stainburn Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Stainburn is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1775 from a chapelry in Kirkby Overblow Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Moorside and Braythorne.

Alternative names: Stainburn with Braythorne and Moorside

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1647
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1663

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STAINBURN, a township-chapelry, with two hamlets, in Kirkby-Overblow parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near Weeton r. station, and 4 miles NE by E of Otley. Post town, Otley. Acres, 2,910. Real property, £2,605. Pop., 243. Houses, 41. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £66. Patron, the Rector of Kirkby-Overblow. There is a parochial school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Stainburn – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions in churchyard and church of St. Mary, Stainburn, near, Leathley, North Yorkshire County
Author:    Hardwick, G.

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

England, Yorkshire, Stainburn – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Kirkby-Overblow, 1632-1869
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Overblow (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Ryther, 1603-1888
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Ryther (Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1647-1812
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Overblow (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Stainburn – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Stainburn, Yorks., Eng

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

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