Parish records of Warthill

Includes register of christenings, 1689-1991; register of marriages, 1689-1752, 1763-1811, 1814-1962, December 1991-November 2016; register of burials, 1689-1992 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1777-1812, ages only); register of banns, 1864-2011; register of services, 1929-2013; records concerning benefice income, including account books, 1968-1978, modus account, 1831, 1912, notes on tithes, 18th century, and Canal Company payment for glebe, 1716; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1834-1928, and churchyard papers, 1876; centenary service sheet, 1976; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1860-1901, 1913-1995, enclosure award and map, 1826; photograph of chalice, paten and flagon.

The church of Warthill was appropriated to the Prebend of Warthill in the See of York at an early date and remained subject to its peculiar jurisdiction until the nineteenth century. In 1840 the patronage of the church was transferred to the Archbishop of York. The living was augmented in 1715, 1767, 1791 and 1806.
The medieval parish church was demolished in the 1780s and replaced by a brick building, dedicated to St Mary, in 1787. The present church was built in 1873-1876 to a design by J. G. Hall of Canterbury and at the expense of Mrs and Miss Agar of Brockfield.
Today the parish of Warthill is part of the benefice of Rural East York, which also includes Dunnington, Holtby and Stockton on the Forest.

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 1968 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1983, 1986, 1992, 2002 and 2021.

The church of Warthill was appropriated to the Prebend of Warthill in the See of York at an early date and remained subject to its peculiar jurisdiction until the nineteenth century. In 1840 the patronage of the church was transferred to the Archbishop of York. The living was augmented in 1715, 1767, 1791 and 1806.
The medieval parish church was demolished in the 1780s and replaced by a brick building, dedicated to St Mary, in 1787. The present church was built in 1873-1876 to a design by J. G. Hall of Canterbury and at the expense of Mrs and Miss Agar of Brockfield.
Today the parish of Warthill is part of the benefice of Rural East York, which also includes Dunnington, Holtby and Stockton on the Forest.

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 2022.

Registers of christenings, 1689-1991, marriages, 1689-1900, and burials, 1689-1992, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 805, 1581, 1755, 1756).
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, 22.03.16. Updated 11.08.21.
Revised (Schema arrangement and retroconversion) 03.01.2023 by N Adams

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Further accruals are expected.

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