Wistow Yorkshire Family History Guide

Wistow is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1590
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1635

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WISTOW, a parish, with a village, in Selby district, W. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles NW by N of Selby r. station. It has a post-office under Selby.

Acres, 3,870. Real property, £7,327. Pop., 849. Houses, 185. The property is subdivided.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is ancient but good.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, a free school, and charities £30.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Yorkshire, Wistow – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Wistow, 1635-1839
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Wistow (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Wistow, parish registers, 1590-1965
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Wistow (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers of Wistow, 1590-1812
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Wistow (Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Wistow – Manors – Court records ( 2 )
Court rolls, 1690-1753
Author:    Manor of Wistow and Cawood. Court (Yorkshire)

Court rolls, 1690-1850
Author:    Manor of Cawood with Wistow. Court (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Wistow – Probate records ( 1 )
Original wills, bonds, inventories, 1549-1842
Author:    Church of England. Prebendal Court (Wistow, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Wistow – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Wistow township, 1780-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Selby
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Wistow
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    City of York and Ainsty
  • Poor Law Union:    Selby
  • Hundred:    Barkstone Ash
  • Province:    York