Parish records of Thormanby

Includes register of christenings, 1658-1991; register of marriages, 1658-1812, 1814-1991; register of burials, 1658-1812, 1814-1993 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1784-1812); register of banns, 1823-1931, 1957; register of services, 1906-1954; records concerning benefice income, correspondence regarding glebe sale, 1905, glebe lands, 1936-1948, and sequestration accounts, 1968-1978; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1886-1898, 1921-1947, fabric papers, 1908-1953, and plans of church, 1898; records of incumbents, including notes of parish affairs, 1894-1938, and statistical returns, 1915-1933; overseers’ deeds for poor's lands, 1742; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including enclosure award, 1785, magazines, 1970-1975, and deed, 1632.

The present parish church of Thormanby dates to the twelfth century. It may have belonged to the Augustinian double monastery at Marton, and was certainly given to the nuns of Marton when they separated to form the Priory of Moxby before 1167. The advowson was shared by the Prioress and the successors of the founder of Marton, Bertram de Bulmer, and remained divided following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century. By the 1920s it was alternately in the gift of the Cayley and Dawney families.
The church is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, although there appears to have been some confusion over this, with some early nineteenth century sources giving it as St Mary the Virgin and Thomas Bulmer recording a dedication to All Saints in 1890. The building dates to the twelfth century. A north aisle was added c.1200, but was later taken down. The south porch was added in the eighteenth century and the church tower was building in 1822. The north vestry was added c.1900. The church was repaired in 1955 by York architects Brierley, Syme and Leckenby. There was a Rectory House by 1859.
Today Thormanby is part of the benefice of Brafferton with Pilmoor and Myton on Swale.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1956 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1967, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1993, 1994, and 1999.

The present parish church of Thormanby dates to the twelfth century. It may have belonged to the Augustinian double monastery at Marton, and was certainly given to the nuns of Marton when they separated to form the Priory of Moxby before 1167. The advowson was shared by the Prioress and the successors of the founder of Marton, Bertram de Bulmer, and remained divided following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century. By the 1920s it was alternately in the gift of the Cayley and Dawney families.
The church is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, although there appears to have been some confusion over this, with some early nineteenth century sources giving it as St Mary the Virgin and Thomas Bulmer recording a dedication to All Saints in 1890. The building dates to the twelfth century. A north aisle was added c.1200, but was later taken down. The south porch was added in the eighteenth century and the church tower was building in 1822. The north vestry was added c.1900. The church was repaired in 1955 by York architects Brierley, Syme and Leckenby. There was a Rectory House by 1859.
Today Thormanby is part of the benefice of Brafferton with Pilmoor and Myton on Swale.

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 1999.

Selected records, including registers of christenings, 1658-1991, marriages, 1658-1900, burials, 1658-1993, and banns, 1823-1900, marriage licenses, 1812-1857, and terriers, 1743-1825, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 799, 1580, 1760, 1777).
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, 15.03.16.

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