Parish records of Hambleton with Gateforth

Includes register of marriages at Hambleton, 1917-1996; register of marriages at Gateforth, 1921-1945; register of banns, 1915-1958; register of services at Hambleton, 1915-1995; register of services at Gateforth, 1914-1927, 1938-1976; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1916-1943, and fabric papers, 1938-1982; records concerning benefice income, including vicarage correspondence and papers, 1937-1956, and correspondence, 1923, 1948; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1920-1981, accounts, 1951-1970, and reports and accounts, 1997-1999; papers concerning the establishment and demolition of Gateforth Church, 1881-1981.

Hambleton was a chapel of ease and Gateforth a perpetual curacy within the parish of Brayton, both subject to the peculiar jurisdiction of Selby until the nineteenth century. A church, dedicated to St Mary, was built at Gateforth in 1825, at the expense of Humphrey Osbaldeston. A church was also built at Hambleton, also dedicated to St Mary, in 1881 and consecrated the following year.
Hambleton and Gateforth remained part of the parish of Brayton until 1914 when the district chapelry of Gateforth cum Hambleton was created. In 1915 St Mary’s Church, Hambleton, was substituted as parish church in place of St Mary’s, Gateforth. The church at Gateforth was demolished in 1948.
In 1960 the parish of Hambleton with Gateforth became part of the benefice of Monk Fryston and Hambleton and in 1984 it joined the new benefice of Haddlesey, Hambleton and Birkin.

This arrangement was designed to reflect the principal activities of the parish and its associated organisations, and to aid researchers in identifying the records these activities generate. This arrangement was introduced in 2020. Records are arranged within the following alphabetical series but retain their original archival reference at file/item level:
A: Parish Registers
B: Church Ceremonial
C: Parish Clergy
D: Property - Religious
E: Property - Secular
F: Parish Administration and Officers
G: Parish Social and Evangelical Activities
H: Overseer of the Poor and Parish Charity
J: Schools
K: Promotional and Informational Material

Records are open to the public, subject to the overriding provisions of relevant legislation, including data protection laws. 24 hours' notice is required to access photographic material.

The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1985 by the incumbent. A further addition was made to the archive in 2008.

Hambleton was a chapel of ease and Gateforth a perpetual curacy within the parish of Brayton, both subject to the peculiar jurisdiction of Selby until the nineteenth century. A church, dedicated to St Mary, was built at Gateforth in 1825, at the expense of Humphrey Osbaldeston. A church was also built at Hambleton, also dedicated to St Mary, in 1881 and consecrated the following year.
Hambleton and Gateforth remained part of the parish of Brayton until 1914 when the district chapelry of Gateforth cum Hambleton was created. In 1915 St Mary’s Church, Hambleton, was substituted as parish church in place of St Mary’s, Gateforth. The church at Gateforth was demolished in 1948.
In 1960 the parish of Hambleton with Gateforth became part of the benefice of Monk Fryston and Hambleton and in 1984 it joined the new benefice of Haddlesey, Hambleton and Birkin.

A typescript finding aid, to file level, is available for consultation in the searchroom of the Borthwick Institute. This includes all material received up to and including 2008.

Registers of marriages, 1917-1945, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 693).
Our collection of parish baptism, marriage and burial registers has been digitised by both Ancestry and Find My Past. Copies of digitised records can be viewed online on Ancestry or Find My Past, as part of larger UK-wide parish registers datasets. You can find out more about these record sets, and how to find our registers, here: https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/are-you-looking-for-parish-registers.

Created by S. A. Shearn, 19.02.16.
Revised (Schema arrangement and retroconversion) 06.04.2022 by N Adams

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Further accruals are expected.

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