Scruton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Scruton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1572
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1615

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Scruton Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Scruton. The index includes information from Quarter Sessions Records Vol. IX Edited by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, D.C.L. Published by The North Riding Record Society for the publication of original Documents relating to the North Riding of York. 1892.

Quarter Sessions Records

The records below have been extracted from the book Quarter Sessions Records Vol. IX Edited by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, D.C.L. Published by The North Riding Record Society for the publication of original Documents relating to the North Riding of York. 1892.

Informations taken before John Hopton, Esq., September 23, 1691 : Against Stephen Cornforth, late of Screwton, for catching twenty unseasonable or kipper salmon in the river Swale at Morton.
Against Marmaduke Etherington, late of Screwton, for the like.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SCRUTON, a village and a parish in Bedale district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the North-allerton and Leyburn railway, 3½ miles N E of Bedale; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Bedale. The parish comprises 2,066 acres. Real property, £4, 194. Pop., 408. Houses, 96. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £550. Patron, H. Coore, Esq. The church is ancient, and was recently restored. There are a national school, and charities £17.

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

Historical Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bedale
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Catterick
  • Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery: Catterick
  • Poor Law Union: Bedale
  • Hundred: East Hang
  • Province: York