Middleton with Cropton and Lockton, Yorkshire, England Genealogy
Guide to Middleton with Cropton and Lockton, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Hundred | Pickering-Lythe |
| Poor Law Union | Pickering |
| Registration District | Pickering |
| Records Begin | |
| Parish registers | 1671; Separate registers exist for Middleton with Cropton St Gregory beginning 1713 |
| Bishop's Transcripts | 1622; Separate records exist for Middleton with Cropton St Gregory beginning 1603 |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Riddal |
| Diocese | York |
| Province | York |
| Probate Court | Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York |
| Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Middleton with Cropton and Lockton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Lockton, Yorkshire is a chapelry of Middleton with Cropton and Lockton.
Other places in the parish include: Aislaby, Aislaby near Pickering, Cawthorn, Cawthorne, Wrelton, Hartoft, Middleton and Aislaby, Middleton with Cropton St Gregory, and Cropton.
The village and civil parish of Middleton is in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire Middleton Ryedale Wikipedia It should not be confused with the hamlet of Middleton near Harrogate in North Yorkshire.see Middleton Harrogate North Yorkshire Wikipedia
The Parish Church of St Andrew Church Lane Middleton in Ryedale has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building
MIDDLETON, a parish, in the union and lythe of Pickering, N. riding of York; containing, with the chapelries of Cropton, Lockton, and Rosedale East Side, the townships of Aislaby, Cawthorn, Hartoft, and Wrelton, and the extra-parochial place of Turnhill, 1874 inhabitants, of whom 261 are in the township of Middleton, 1 mile (W. N. W.) from Pickering, on the road to Helmsley. There are chapels of ease at Cropton and Lockton, and a separate incumbency at Rosedale.[1]
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cropton like this:
CROPTON, a township in Middleton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Severn, 4½ miles NW by N of Pickering. Acres, 3, 810. Real property, £1, 993. Pop., 360. Houses, 83. Here are some ancient British earth-works, and traces of an ancient road.
The Methodist Chapel at Wrelton has been designated as a grade listed Building British listed building See also Wrelton Wikipedia for the village and civil parish of Wrelton
Resources[edit | edit source]
Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
- Type the name of the parish in the search bar
- Click on the location pin on the map
- Choose Options from the pop up box
- Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
- See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
NonConformist Records refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.
Church of England[edit | edit source]
Due to the increasing access of online records:
- Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
- Dates in the following table are approximate
Hover over the collection's title for more information
| Middleton with Cropton and Lockton Online Parish Records | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-Yorkshire | ||||||
| FamilySearch Parish Registers-Yorkshire | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-Yorkshire ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Banns-Yorkshire ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry Church of England (Early)-West Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry Church of England (Late)-West Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 1500s-1900s |
1500s-1900s |
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| Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
| National Burial Index-FMP (Free) | ||||||
Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
- Joiner Marriage Index - West Riding of Yorkshire ($)
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - Yorkshire ($)
- 1611-1861 Archdeaconry of Richmond, England, Church of England Marriage Bonds, 1611-1861 at Ancestry – index & images ($)
- UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
- Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]
"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Pickering Poor Law Union, Yorkshire
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 306-310. Date accessed: 23 October 2013.