Acomb Yorkshire Family History Guide

Acomb is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Knapton in Acomb, Knapton, Drinkhouses, and Dringhouses.

Alternative names: Akeham

Parish church: St. Stephen

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1634
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1634

Separate registers exist for Dringhouses

Parish registers: 1824
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1849

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Table of Contents

Adjacent Parishes

Acomb Parish Registers

Acomb Yorkshire Parish Register, 1663-1837

Marriage Licences and Allegations

An index of parish records of people from Acomb. The index includes information from Paver’s Marriage Licences V.3 1674 to 1717.

Paver’s Marriage Licences V.3 1674 to 1717

Acomb

1700 Robert Waller, esq., 22, Acomb, and Grace West, spinster, 19, Harton, Bossall at Bossall, Cathedral or Bishophill. (f.n. Not at York Minster)

1707 John Harrison, gen., 50, Acomb, and Sarah Ramsden, widow, 45, Bilbrough—at All Saints, North Street or Trinity, Micklegate. (f.n. Not at Trinity)

1708 Robert Broadbelt, yeoman, 24, Acomb, and Jane Whitweild, spinster, 21, Bilbrough — there or at St. Olave.

1709 Hungerford Blanshard, gen., 21, Acomb, and Judith Wilson, spinster, 21, Gargrave — at Burnsall, Rilston or All Saints, North Street.

1710 James Buttery, linenweaver, 39, York, and Elizabeth Leedam, spinster. 34, Acomb — at St. Olave or Fulford.

1712 Thomas Marling, yeoman, 39, Acomb Grange, and Margaret Bowes, widow, 30, St. Olave—there or at St. Michael-le-Belfrey. (f.n. Not at St. Michael)

Dringhouses

1684 Richard Grainger, agriculturer, 30, Catterton, Tadcaster, and Elizabeth Hood, spinster, 22, Drinkhouses — at St. Michael-le-Belfrey. (f.n. At Belfreys 3 July 1683)

1693 Thomas Watkinson, yeoman, 49, Leeds, and Mary Craven, widow, 39, Dring Houses — at Trinity Micklegate. (f.n. At Trinity, 23 Dec, 1693. She called Carver.)

1693 Thomas Appleyard, yeoman, 28. Bolton Percy, and Sarah Houseman, widow, 24, Dring Houses—at Bolton Percy.

1699 Richard Hartley, gen., 40, and Priscilla Armytage, widow, 38, Smaws—at Dring Houses.

1703 William Chapman, yeoman, 49, Dring Houses, and Edan Smeeton, widow, 49, Bishophill Senior — there.

1704 William Chapman, junior, 21, Dringhouses, and Eliza Weddell, spinster, 19, York — at St. Martin, Micklegate. p Wm Chapman, senr., Dringhouses. (f.n. At St. Martin’s, Mick., 27 Feb., 1704-5.)

1708 John Browne, agriculturer, 25, and Jane Turner, spinster, 22, Dring Houses—at Trinity, King’s Court.

1713 John Richmond, yeoman, 44, Dring Houses, and Ann Field, widow, 34, Trinity, Micklegate—at Thirsk, Tadcaster or Easingwold.

1713 William Stonehouse, yeoman, 23, Copmanthorpe, and Mary Buttery, spinster, 27, Dringhouses—at All Saints, North Street.

Acomb Parish Records

School Records

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Acomb School 1870-1881 Admissions

Acomb School 1870-1888 Admissions

Acomb School 1888-1913 Admissions

Acomb School 1903-1913 Admissions

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ACOMB, a township and a parish in York district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 2 miles W of York, and has a post office under that city. Acres, 1,440. Pop., 897. Houses, 195. The parish includes also most of the township of Knapton and part of the township of Drinkhouses, and is traversed by the North-eastern railway. Acres, 2,273. Real property, £5,361. Pop., 1,034. Houses, 226. The property is much sub divided.

An eminence called Sivers’ hill is traditionally said to have been the place where the body of the Emperor Severus was consumed to ashes. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £190. Patron, F. Barlow, Esq. The church is old, but good. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Charities, £12.

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

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840

Acomb, or Akeham, a parish in the ainsty of the city of York; 2¼ miles west from York, comprising the townships of Acomb and Knapton. Living, a discharged vicarage and a peculiar of the dean and chapter of York; rated at £3 9s. 2d., and in the parliamentary return at £80; gross income £109. The patronage belonged, in 1835, to T. Tyreman, Esq. There is also a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the village.

The sum of £5 from Lady Hewley’s charity for education, was applied to the education of ten poor children in this parish. Pop. of the township of Acomb, in 1801, 587; in 1831, 762; of the parish, in 1831, 882. Houses 186. Acres 7,330. A. P. £4,930. Poor rates, in 1837, £244. The great North of England railway intersects this parish.

In the neighbourhood is an eminence called Sivers’ hill, from a tradition that the body of the emperor Severus was brought from York, where he died, and here consumed to ashes; the remains being collected in a golden urn, or vessel of porphyry stone, and sent to Rome.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.

Acomb – Langdale A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire 1822

Acomb, (Ainsty), a parish town, in the liberty of St. Peter; 2½ miles from York, 8½ from Tadcaster, 12¾ from Wetherby. – Pop. 733. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Stephen, value,3l. 9s. 2d. p.r. 80l. Patron, the Rev. Thomas Tireman.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire By Thomas Langdale. Second Edition. Printed and Sold by J. Langdale; and sold by T. Langdale, Ripon. 1822.

Acomb Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom Capper 1808

Acomb, a parish in the liberty of York Ainstey, E. R. of York, 1½ miles from York city; containing 116 houses and 587 inhabitants. It is a vicarage, value 3l. 9s. 2d.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom. Benjamin Pitts Capper. 1808.