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