Parish records of Market Weighton

Includes register of christenings, 1653-1889 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1778-1784, infrequently); register of marriages, 1653-1954; register of burials, 1653-1960; register of banns, 1897-1976; register of services, 1886-1972; register of confirmations, 1858-1863, 1899-1908, 1932-1941; communicant numbers, 1858-1884; records concerning benefice income, including accounts, 1858, 1863, tithe papers, 1840-1842, glebe farm plans and correspondence, 1897-1957, glebe papers, 1868, 1880, 1941-1957, and papers for sale of prebendal estate, 1846-1853; charity records, including correspondence and papers, 1824-1957, and accounts, 1865-1902, 1952-1958; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1681-1949, fabric papers, 1835, 1858-1884, 1891, 1897, 1902-1903, 1950-1955, and visitors' book, 1938-1971; records of incumbents, including parish visiting papers, 1943, notes for archdeacon's visitation, 1951, dilapidations papers, 1942-1961, and parsonage house mortgage, 1944; overseers’ records, including accounts, 1806-1822, 1845-1848, rates, 1783-1821, and town map with drawings of buildings and names of owners and occupiers, 1848; records concerning parish rooms and societies, including Girls' Friendly Society register, 1897-1917, minutes of meetings of Market Weighton branch of British and Foreign Bible Society, 1927-1961, Church hall papers, 1938, 1951, and Church of England Girls' Club minutes of meetings and reports, 1922-1939; school records, including managers' minutes of meetings, 1841-1883, 1886-1923, accounts, 1867-1903, 1940-1952, letter book and correspondence, 1841-1842, 1888-1889, 1891, 1902-1910, 1915, 1923, 1928-1929, inspectors' reports, 1873-1904, 1907, education authority returns, 1897, 1899-1902, 1904, 1906-1907, 1916, 1918, 1923, exam schedules, 1875-1901, and building papers, 1842, 1856-1858, 1862-1863, 1867, 1887-1888, 1892-1912; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1920-1981, accounts, 1943-1952, 1955-1957, electoral roll, 1920-1935, enclosure award, 1807, magazines, 1861, 1900-1908, 1920-1925, 1942-1958, 1962-1966, roll of honour, 1914-1918, deposited map of Market Weighton to Beverley railway, 1861, Market Weighton drainage and navigation papers, 1873-1912, and correspondence, 1956-1957.

There was a church at Market Weighton from at least the twelfth century, although a church is said to have existed there since Saxon times. It was granted to the Cathedral Church of York during the reign of King Henry I, but was for a short time appropriated by the Prior and Convent of Durham before being restored to York by Archbishop Walter de Grey and made once again subject to the peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebend of Weighton. A vicarage was ordained there in 1255.
The parish church of All Saints has undergone significant alterations over the centuries. The chancel was extended and the tower largely rebuilt in the thirteenth century. At some point a wooden spire was built but this was removed in 1785. The church was restored in 1871, with a new organ by Jones & Sons of South Kensington added in 1883 and the chancel refloored in marble in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The choir and clergy stalls were created in the 1940s by Robert Thompson of Kilburn and include his trademark mouse carvings. More recently a modern kitchen and toilet were added.
The parish historically included the hamlets of Arras and Shipton, the latter of which had its own chapel of ease. Shipton separated from Market Weighton in 1876 to form the new parish of Shiptonthorpe.
As of 2017 the church remains in use.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1969 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1979, 1983 and 1988.

There was a church at Market Weighton from at least the twelfth century, although a church is said to have existed there since Saxon times. It was granted to the Cathedral Church of York during the reign of King Henry I, but was for a short time appropriated by the Prior and Convent of Durham before being restored to York by Archbishop Walter de Grey and made once again subject to the peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebend of Weighton. A vicarage was ordained there in 1255.
The parish church of All Saints has undergone significant alterations over the centuries. The chancel was extended and the tower largely rebuilt in the thirteenth century. At some point a wooden spire was built but this was removed in 1785. The church was restored in 1871, with a new organ by Jones & Sons of South Kensington added in 1883 and the chancel refloored in marble in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The choir and clergy stalls were created in the 1940s by Robert Thompson of Kilburn and include his trademark mouse carvings. More recently a modern kitchen and toilet were added.
The parish historically included the hamlets of Arras and Shipton, the latter of which had its own chapel of ease. Shipton separated from Market Weighton in 1876 to form the new parish of Shiptonthorpe.
As of 2017 the church remains in use.

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 1988.

Registers of christenings, 1653-1885, marriages, 1653-1885, burials, 1653-1858, and banns, 1897-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 732-733, 1762).
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, 25.02.16.

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