Thornthwaite Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Thornthwaite is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1744 from Hampsthwaite Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Hampsthwaite St Saviour, Thornthwaite with Padside

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THORNTHWAITE, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Pateley-Bridge district, W. R. Yorkshire.

The township lies 2¾ miles W by S of Darley r. station, and 4½ S by E of Pateley-Bridge; and is called T.-with-Padside. Acres, 1,960. Pop., 257. Houses, 56.

The chapelry extends much beyond the township, and is in Hampsthwaite parish. Post town, Ripley, under Leeds. Pop., 930.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £109. Patron, the Vicar of Hampsthwaite.

The sub-district contains 4 townships. Acres, 12,450. Pop., 1,925. Houses, 438

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

Parish Registers

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 Christopher Spence, Hampsthwaite, and Isabel Wiseman, Thornthwaite—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.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

See Hampsthwaite Yorkshire Family History Guide

Administration

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