Parish records of Fairburn

Includes register of marriages, 1946-1985; register of services, 1948-1967; records concerning benefice income, including tithe award, 1839; churchwardens’ accounts, 1869-1936, 1946-1961; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1937-1959.

Fairburn is a chapelry within the parish of Ledsham, dedicated to St James. The church was built in 1846. Burials took place in the new churchyard from this time and in 1946 the church was also licensed to perform marriages.
The chapelry is served by the vicar of Ledsham but a curate resided at Fairburn, and was responsible for that part of the parish, until the 1940s.
Today Fairburn is part of the parish and benefice of Ledsham with Fairburn, which also includes All Saints Church at Ledsham and St Thomas a Becket Chapel at Ledston Hall.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1975. Further additions were made to the archive in 1984, 1992 and 1996.

Fairburn is a chapelry within the parish of Ledsham, dedicated to St James. The church was built in 1846. Burials took place in the new churchyard from this time and in 1946 the church was also licensed to perform marriages.
The chapelry is served by the vicar of Ledsham but a curate resided at Fairburn, and was responsible for that part of the parish, until the 1940s.
Today Fairburn is part of the parish and benefice of Ledsham with Fairburn, which also includes All Saints Church at Ledsham and St Thomas a Becket Chapel at Ledston Hall.

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 1996.

A register of marriages, 1946-1955, is also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 683).
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, 10.02.16.

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For related material held by the Borthwick Institute, see the parish records of Ledsham.

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