Kildwick Yorkshire Family History Guide
Kildwick is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Sutton near Kildwick, Sutton, Sturton with Thorlby, Streeton with Eastown, Stotthill, Stirton with Thorlby, Steeton with Eastburn, Ickornshaw, Glusburn, Farnhill with Cononley, Farnhill, Crosshills, Cononley with Bradley, Cononley, and Bradley’s Both.
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1572
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Christians, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Kildwick Parish Registers
Yorkshire Kildwick-in-Craven Parish Register, 1575-1622
Yorkshire Kildwick-in-Craven Parish Register, 1623-1678
Kildwick-in-Craven Parish Registers 1678-1743
Kildwick-in-Craven Parish Registers 1744-1789
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 George Morden and Elizabeth Wilson, Kildwick—there.
1630 Edward Sawley, Kildwick, and Margaret Windle, Broughton—either place.
1630 William Baldwin, Kildwick, and Margaret Bulcock, Colne—either place.
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
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KILDWICK, a township and a sub-district in Skipton district, and a parish partly also in Keighley district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool canal, adjacent to the North Midland railway, 4 miles SSE of Skipton; and has a station on the railway, jointly with Cross Hills, and a post office under Leeds. Acres, 873. Real property, £1,351. Pop., 170. Houses, 36.
The sub-district contains also the townships of Cononley, Cowling, Glusburn, Farnhill, Bradleys-Both, and Silsden. Acres, 17, 717. Pop. in 1851, 8, 763; in 1861, 7, 853. Houses, 1, 676.
The parish contains likewise the townships of Sutton and Steeton-with-Eastburn. Acres, 22, 079. Real property, £39, 378; of which £4, 783 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 11, 712; in 1861, 10, 893. Houses, 2, 292. The decrease of pop. was mainly in Cononley, Cowling, and Bradleys-Both; and was caused chiefly by the stoppage of lead mines in the first of these townships, and by the decline of hand loom weaving in all the three. Considerable increase of pop. occurred in Glusburn and Steeton. The property is much subdivided.
The manor of Kildwick, with Kildwick Hall, belongs to the Wilsons; that of Cowling, to R. B. Wainman, Esq.; and Farnhill Hall, with much of Farnhill township, to G. L. Fox, Esq. Lead mines, belonging to the Duke of Devonshire, are in Cononley; quarries are all over the parish; worsted mills are in Cononley, Cowling, Silsden, and Steeton; and other manufacturing works are in Steeton and Sutton.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £395 Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is very ancient; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower; is popularly known as “the langkirk of Craven;” and contains an interesting monument of the 14th century to the Knight Templar, Sir Robert De Styveton. The p. curacies of Cowling and Silsden are separate benefices.
Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels are in all the townships; a Baptist chapel is in Sutton; and national schools are in Kildwick, Cononley, Silsden, Cowling, and Sutton. Charities, £56.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Skipton
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Craven
- Poor Law Union: Skipton
- Hundred: Staincliff and Ewcross
- Province: York