Cherry Bourton, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Cherry Bourton or Cherry Burton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Alternative names: Burton Cherry, Cherry Bourton, Cherry Burton, Cheriburton, North Burton

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1561
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Cherry Burton Parish Registers

Yorkshire Cherry Burton Parish Register, 1561-1740

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 William Johnson, gen., Cheriburton, and Catherine Buck, Carnaby — either place. (Not at Cherry Burton.)

1630 William Thornton and Mary Miklethwaite, Cheriburton—there. (At Cherry Burton, 7 Dec, 1630.)  

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 History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BURTON, CHERRY (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Beverley, Hunsley-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, E. riding of York, 3 miles (W. N. W.) from Beverley; containing 455 inhabitants.

The parish is situated on the road from Beverley to Malton, and comprises 3438a. 3r. 7p., of which 2683 acres are arable, 653 meadow, and 50 wood. The soil is clayey, and in most situations suitable for the growth of wheat; and the surface generally level, but in some parts undulated: about a third comes under the denomination of wold land.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £23. 6. 8.; patron, Robert Ramsden, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £1050, and the glebe comprises 25a. 3r. 27p. The church, a small ancient edifice with a square tower, has traces of Norman and early English architecture; it was repaired in 1842. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Beverley
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of St Leonard’s Hospital, York, Court of the Peculiar of Provost of the Collegiate Church of St John, Beverley
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Harthill and Hull
  • Poor Law Union: Beverly
  • Hundred: Harthill
  • Province: York