Parish records of South Milford

Includes register of christenings, 1846-1994; register of marriages, 1847-2001; register of burials, 1847-1998; banns of marriage register, 1969-2005; register of services, 1908-2005; register of communicants, 1902-1907; records concerning benefice income, including tithe grant, 1858, land exchange, 1859, and papers, 1860; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1916-1949, and fabric papers, 1878, 1898, 1963; records of incumbents, including accounts for church history lectures, 1892; Vestry/Parochial Church Council minutes of meetings, 1920-2009; account book, 1949-1962; offertory account book, 1874-1916; electoral roll, 1959-1997; terrier and inventory, 1984, with photographs and negatives of stained glass windows, organ, church plate and church furniture, 1984-1998; faculty to build new choir vestry, 1878; agreement with the National Coal Board relating to mining subsidence damage, 1982, with related correspondence; papers relating to Pastoral Scheme: union of benefices of Monk Fryston and South Milford and disposal of South Milford parsonage house, 1986; suspension of presentation to the Benefice of South Milford, 1968, 1977; copy of licence granted to Rev Gwyn Murfet to perform the office of Priest in Charge, 1977, with related correspondence; papers relating to Churchyard, 1959-1996; papers relating to St Mary's Church Hall, 1848-1982; papers relating to purchase of 'Vidal', Westfield Lane as the new Rectory 1968; correspondence and papers relating to sale of The Old Rectory, Back Lane, 1968-1969; correspondence and papers relating to church fabric including surveyor's report and correspondence relating to renewal of the stone arch to the west doorway, re-plastering the Vestry, Chancel and Nave, renewal of the lead flat roof over the Vestry and repairs to timbers and boarding, 1947-1948; report on Church central heating system, 1957.

South Milford was a chapelry within the parish of Sherburn in Elmet until 1859, when it separated to form an independent parish. The new church, which was dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, had been consecrated in 1846 by the Bishop of Ripon. The site was donated by University College, Oxford, and Benjamin Crosland of Milford House.
The church was designed by George Fowler Jones and built by Benjamin Bulmer of Thorp Arch. The pulpit was carved by Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson and given to the church in 1954 by the Crosland family. A new organ chamber and choir vestry was added in 1899.
A rectory was built in 1866 and then replaced in 1966. It was sold in 1985 when the parish merged with that of Monk Fryston. The new rectory is situated in Hillam.
Today the parish is part of the united benefice of Monk Fryston and South Milford.

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 1985. A further addition was made to the archive in 1999 and 2016.

South Milford was a chapelry within the parish of Sherburn in Elmet until 1859, when it separated to form an independent parish. The new church, which was dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, had been consecrated in 1846 by the Bishop of Ripon. The site was donated by University College, Oxford, and Benjamin Crosland of Milford House.
The church was designed by George Fowler Jones and built by Benjamin Bulmer of Thorp Arch. The pulpit was carved by Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson and given to the church in 1954 by the Crosland family. A new organ chamber and choir vestry was added in 1899.
A rectory was built in 1866 and then replaced in 1966. It was sold in 1985 when the parish merged with that of Monk Fryston. The new rectory is situated in Hillam.
Today the parish is part of the united benefice of Monk Fryston and South Milford.

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.

Registers of christenings, 1846-1885, and marriages, 1847-1885, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 785).
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, 02.03.16.
Revised (Schema arrangement and retroconversion) 03.12.2021 by N Adams

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Further accruals are expected.

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