Parish records of East Heslerton

Includes register of marriages, 1859-2002; register of banns, 1890-2002; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1855-1934, and fabric papers, 1938, 1948; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1855-1934; faculty correspondence, 1927.

East Heslerton was originally a chapelry of the parish of West Heslerton. The church, dedicated to St Andrew, was built in 1877 to a design by architect George Edmund Street and at the expense of Sir Tatton Skyes of Sledmere, replacing an earlier structure. It separated from West Heslerton to form an independent parish in 1879.
St Andrew’s Church was declared redundant in 2002 and placed in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Today East Heslerton is part of the parish of West and East Heslerton with Yedingham within the united benefice of Buckrose Carrs.

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 1982. Further additions were made to the archive in 1992, 2003 and 2015.

East Heslerton was originally a chapelry of the parish of West Heslerton. The church, dedicated to St Andrew, was built in 1877 to a design by architect George Edmund Street and at the expense of Sir Tatton Skyes of Sledmere, replacing an earlier structure. It separated from West Heslerton to form an independent parish in 1879.
St Andrew’s Church was declared redundant in 2002 and placed in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Today East Heslerton is part of the parish of West and East Heslerton with Yedingham within the united benefice of Buckrose Carrs.

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 2015.

Registers of marriages, 1859, 1886-1900, and churchwardens' accounts, 1885-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 1760, 1773).
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.

Revised by S. Kent, September 2016.
Revised by C Flockton December, 2022.

A reprographics service is available to researchers subject to the access restrictions outlined above. Copying will not be undertaken if there is any risk of damage to the document. Copies are supplied in accordance with the Borthwick Institute for Archives' terms and conditions for the supply of copies, and under provisions of any relevant copyright legislation. Permission to reproduce images of documents in the custody of the Borthwick Institute must be sought.

Further accruals are not expected.

The records of West Heslerton and Yedingham are also deposited at the Borthwick Institute.

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