Cantley, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Cantley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: High and Low Ellers, Gatewood, Branton, Brampton, and Bessecar.

Parish church: St. Wilfrid

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1539
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Cantley Parish Registers

Yorkshire Cantley Parish Register, 1539-1812

Parish History

Cantley

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CANTLEY, a parish in Doncaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; near the river Idle, 3 miles N by W of Rossington r. station, and 3½ ESE of Doncaster. It includes the hamlets of Bessecar, Branton, Gatewood, and High and Low Ellers; and has a post-office under Doncaster. Acres, 5,160. Real property, £5,373. Pop., 663. Houses, 127. The property is divided between two. Cantley House is the seat of J. W. Childers, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £233. Patron, J. W. Childers, Esq. The church is good: and there is a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CANTLEY (St. Wilfrid), a parish, in the union of Doncaster, S. division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Doncaster; containing 651 inhabitants.

This parish, of which large portions were anciently possessed by different religious foundations, including those of Worksop, Kirkstall, and Hampole, comprises about 5160 acres, and contains the hamlets of Branton, Bessecar, High and Low Ellers, Gatewood, and Kilholme. The surface is level, and in some parts is well wooded. The parish is intersected by the road between Doncaster and Bawtry, which leaves it at Rossington bridge; and the Torn forms its southern boundary, dividing it from those portions of Finningsby parish which are in Yorkshire.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6. 6. 5½., and in the patronage of John Walbanke Childers, Esq., who is the impropriator: the vicarial tithes have been commuted for land producing £175 per annum, and there is a good glebehouse. The church was formerly in the hands of a religious community; it is a small cemented structure, with a low tower.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Branton, or Brampton

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BRANTON, or Brampton, a hamlet, in the parish of Cantley, union of Doncaster, S. division of Strafforth and Tickhill wapentake, W. riding of York, 4 miles (S. E.) from Doncaster; containing 286 inhabitants. The river Torne passes at a short distance east of the village. A national school was opened in 1835, which is also used as a chapel of ease on Sunday evenings.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Doncaster
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Doncaster
  • Poor Law Union: Doncaster
  • Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
  • Province: York