Whixley Yorkshire Family History Guide

Whixley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Thornville and Green Hammerton.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1568
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1663

Nonconformists include:  Independent/Congregational, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WHIXLEY, a village and a township in Great Ouseburn district, and a parish partly also in Kirk-Deighton district, W. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands 1¾ mile N of Cattal r. station, and 6 SE by S of Boroughbridge; and has a post-office under York.

The township comprises 2,210 acres. Real property, £4,369. Pop., 605. Houses, 125.

The parish contains two other townships, and comprises 3,470 acres. Pop., 954. Houses, 203. W. manor belongs to the governors of Tancred’s hospital; and Green Hammerton manor, to R. H. Farrer, Esq.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £116. Patrons, the Heirs-at-Law of the lateTancred, Esq. The church is early decorated English.

There are four dissenting chapels, a parochial school, Tancred’s hospital for 12 decayed gentlemen, and other charities £40.

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 Roger Geldart, Trinity Micklegate, and Elizabeth Spence, Whixley—either place. (Not at Trinity)

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

England, Yorkshire, Whixley – Census ( 2 )
Census returns for Thornville, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for Whixley, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Whixley – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Whixley, 1670-1859
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whixley (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Whixley, parish registers, 1586-1914
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whixley (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1568-1812
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whixley (Yorkshire); Kaye, Walter J. (Walter Jenkinson)

Parish registers of Whixley 1568-1812 & Allerton Mauleverer c. 1560-1812 (both West Riding)
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Whixley (Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Allerton-Mauleverer (Yorkshire); Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Parish Register Section; Dougill, Maryon

England, Yorkshire, Whixley – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Whixley, Yorkshire, England

England, Yorkshire, Whixley – Taxation ( 3 )
Land tax assessments for Green Hammerton township, 1781-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Thornville township, 1781-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Whixley 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