Parish records of Full Sutton

Includes register of christenings, 1713-1977; register of marriages, 1713-1811, 1813-1836; register of burials, 1713-1978; register of banns, 1827-1970; register of services, 1923-1940; charity records, including accounts, 1889-1956, and list of bequests, 1659-1736; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1898-1903, and churchyard deed, 1909; records of incumbents, including statistical returns, 1895-1916, and exchange of advowson, 1880; overseers’ accounts, 1726-1780; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1942-1943, accounts, 1943-1956, copy of Catton enclosure award, 1766, and census returns, naming heads of and numbers in households, 1811, 1821.

A church at Full Sutton was first mentioned in the early thirteenth century when the chapel there was granted independence from its mother church at Catton. The advowson of the new parish was held by the Dawtry family by 1234, and descended with them as lords of the manor of Full Sutton until the seventeenth century, when the advowson was sold to Francis Elwick and subsequently to John Eyre of Bramley. By the nineteenth century it was held by Lord Feversham who transferred it to the Crown in 1868 in return for the advowson of Kirbymoorside.
The present parish church is dedicated to St Mary and dates from 1844-1845, although it incorporates masonry from the original medieval building. The rectory house was also replaced in the first half of the nineteenth century and the churchyard of St Mary was enlarged in 1909.
In 1919 the benefice was united with that of Skirpenbeck. Today the parish is part of the united benefice of Garrowby Hill, which also includes Bishop Wilton, Bugthorpe, Kirby Underdale and Skirpenbeck.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1966 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1979, 1980 and 1982.

A church at Full Sutton was first mentioned in the early thirteenth century when the chapel there was granted independence from its mother church at Catton. The advowson of the new parish was held by the Dawtry family by 1234, and descended with them as lords of the manor of Full Sutton until the seventeenth century, when the advowson was sold to Francis Elwick and subsequently to John Eyre of Bramley. By the nineteenth century it was held by Lord Feversham who transferred it to the Crown in 1868 in return for the advowson of Kirbymoorside.
The present parish church is dedicated to St Mary and dates from 1844-1845, although it incorporates masonry from the original medieval building. The rectory house was also replaced in the first half of the nineteenth century and the churchyard of St Mary was enlarged in 1909.
In 1919 the benefice was united with that of Skirpenbeck. Today the parish is part of the united benefice of Garrowby Hill, which also includes Bishop Wilton, Bugthorpe, Kirby Underdale and Skirpenbeck.

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 1982.

Registers of christenings, 1713-1900, marriages, 1713-1836, burials, 1713-1900, and banns, 1827-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 688, 1753, 1760).
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, 11.02.16.

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