Knapton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Knapton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1742 from Wintringham Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Wintringham St Edmund, Knapton near Malton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1760
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Knapton Parish Records

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

Marriage Licences and Allegations

Paver’s Marriage Licences V.3 1674 to 1717

1683 William Kaye, clerk, 35, Kirkby Wharf, and Ruth Sutton, spinster, 30, Knapton — there.

1696 John Burrell, agriculturer, 25, and Margaret Farrer, widow, 30, Knapton—at St. Olave.

1699 John Youngson, lanorius, 39, and Ann Wilson, spinster, 24, Knapton, Winteringham—at All Saints, Pavement or St. Crux.

1699 William Deighton, gen., 20, Knapton, and Ann Cundall, spinster, 19, Easingwold — at St. Olave or Bishophill.

1707 William Gowland, yeoman, 23, Knapton, and Mary Bland, spinster, 22, Bishop Monkton—there or at Ripon.

1710 Francis Horsley, yeoman, 29, Catton, and Grace Raper, spinster, 24, Knapton — at Cathedral, Trinity, Micklegate or Catton. (f.n. At Minster 21 Jan., 1710-11.)

1712 Thomas Barrett, yeoman, 34, Knapton, Trinity, Micklegate, and Ann Purden, spinster, 29, Skelton—at St. Olave.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KNAPTON, a township-chapelry in Wintringham parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on the river Derwent, adjacent to the York and Scarborough railway, 6½ miles NE by E of New Malton. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Rillington, under York. Acres, 2, 740. Real property, £3, 213. Pop., 271. Houses, 47. Knapton Lodge is a chief residence. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £48. Patron, J. Tindall, Esq. The church is ancient, and has a bell turret. There are chapels for Quakers and Wesleyans.

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

Administration

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