Kirby Sigston Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Kirby Sigston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Winton with Hallikeld, Stank and Winton, Winton, Stank and Hallikeld, Winton, Thimbleby, Stank, Sowerby under Cotcliffe, Sowerby under Cotcliff, Sowerby under Catcliffe, Sigston Smithy, and Hallikeld.

Alternative names: Sigston Kirby, Sigston, Kirkby Sigston

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1574
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1692-93

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Kirby Sigston Parish Registers

Bishops Transcripts

Explore the Bishops’ Transcripts for the Diocese of Durham (1639–1919) – This collection offers parish register copies submitted annually to the Bishop, covering baptisms, marriages, and burials across Durham, Northumberland, and parts of Yorkshire and Cumberland. Ideal for tracing ancestors when original registers are missing or incomplete.

Kirby Sigston Bishops Transcripts 1639-1808

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KIRBY-SIGSTON, a township and a parish in Northallerton district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on Cod beck, 3 miles E by N of Northallerton r. station; and has a post office under Northallerton. Acres, 1,216. Real property, £1,275. Pop., 110. Houses, 22. The parish contains also the township of Winton, and that of Sowerby-under-Cotcliff. Acres, 3,369. Real property, £3,566. Pop., 257. Houses, 51. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value and patron, not reported.

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

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Northallerton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Bishop of Durham and the Dean and Chapter in Allerton and Allertonshire
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Cleveland
  • Poor Law Union: Northallerton
  • Hundred: Allertonshire
  • Province: York