Parish records of Holtby

Includes register of christenings, 1679-1992; register of marriages, 1679-1977, June 1984-March 2019; register of burials, 1679-1992; register of services, 1911-1970; records concerning benefice income, including tithe and modus papers, 1912-1913, glebe papers, 1847, 1881-1918, and fee table, 1911; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1843-1935, and fabric papers, 1915-1917, 1936; records of incumbents, including correspondence regarding exchange of patronage, 1880, and statistical returns, 1910-1911; records concerning parish rooms and societies, including Church Missionary Society accounts, 1896-1918, and faculty, 1922; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1913-1958, sales catalogues for Holtby, Warthill and Strensall, 1868, 1887, 1899; book entitled ‘Holtby Church Millennium Window,’ 2000.

The earliest reference to a church at Holtby was in a twelfth century charter of Henry II. At this time it belonged to Durham Priory and the advowson descended with the Priory manor until 1600 when it was granted to William Tancred of Great Langton and thereafter passed into private hands. In 1880 the then patron the Earl of Feversham transferred the patronage to the Crown in exchange for the advowson of Kirby Moorside.
The parish was subject to the peculiar jurisdiction of the Priory until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century, and was afterwards part of the Howdenshire peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Durham.
The present parish church of Holy Trinity dates to 1792, although it was restored in 1841 and then largely rebuilt in 1881. In 1939 the benefice of Holtby and Warthill was united with that of Stockton on the Forest.
Today the parish forms part of the united benefice of Rural East York, which also includes Warthill, Stockton on the Forest and Dunnington.

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 1977 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1983, 1984, 1993 and 2006.

The earliest reference to a church at Holtby was in a twelfth century charter of Henry II. At this time it belonged to Durham Priory and the advowson descended with the Priory manor until 1600 when it was granted to William Tancred of Great Langton and thereafter passed into private hands. In 1880 the then patron the Earl of Feversham transferred the patronage to the Crown in exchange for the advowson of Kirby Moorside.
The parish was subject to the peculiar jurisdiction of the Priory until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century, and was afterwards part of the Howdenshire peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Durham.
The present parish church of Holy Trinity dates to 1792, although it was restored in 1841 and then largely rebuilt in 1881. In 1939 the benefice of Holtby and Warthill was united with that of Stockton on the Forest.
Today the parish forms part of the united benefice of Rural East York, which also includes Warthill, Stockton on the Forest and Dunnington.

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 2006.

Registers of christenings, 1679-1992, marriages, 1679-1836, and burials, 1679-1992, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 707, 882).
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, 23.02.16.

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