Parish records of Ellerton

Includes register of christenings, 1675-1980 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1778-1785); register of marriages, 1675-1971; register of burials, 1675-1813, 1818-1987 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1780-1809, ages only); register of banns, 1824-1981; register of services, 1939-1982; records concerning benefice income, including correspondence and papers, 1874-1941, and lease, 1884; charity records, including accounts, 1891-1913, plan of almshouses, 1966, and correspondence, 1887; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1891-1904, 1936-1958, rates, 1828, fabric papers, 1848, c.1970, and church photograph, 19th century; records of incumbents, including correspondence regarding union of benefice with Aughton, 1920; overseers’ records, including accounts, 1801-1829, 1837-1886, rates, 1868-1901, and apprenticeship indentures, 1751, 1799; school records, including reports of religious instruction, 1891-1896, 1899-1904, 1912, 1918, deeds, 1872, 1967, and valuation, 1966; surveyors’ records, including accounts, 1843-1895, rates, 1875-1890, and notes of men employed and work done, 1893-1895; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including enclosure agreement, 1781, enclosure award and map, 1810, rates under Cattle Diseases Prevention Act, 1866, and roll of honour, 1914-1918; correspondence, report and plans regarding redundant church of Ellerton Priory, St Mary and St Lawrence, 1996–2004.

William Fitz-Peter founded a Priory at Ellerton c.1221 for the Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Priory, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St Lawrence, was granted to Sir John Aske. The nave of the Priory church subsequently became the parish church of Ellerton.
The advowson of the church was augmented in 1732 and 1794 through Queen Anne's Bounty. By the 1840s the medieval church building had fallen into considerable disrepair and the architect John Loughborough Pearson was commissioned to design a new parish church, dedicated to St Mary, which was completed and consecrated in 1848. The medieval church was demolished.
The church was made redundant and appropriated for use as joiner's workshop on the 14th Nov 1979. In 1995 it was taken over by the newly formed Ellerton Church Preservation Trust and has since been restored.
Today Ellerton is part of the parish of Bubwith with Ellerton and Aughton.

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 1967 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1968, 1980, 1983, 1992 and c.2004.

William Fitz-Peter founded a Priory at Ellerton c.1221 for the Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Priory, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St Lawrence, was granted to Sir John Aske. The nave of the Priory church subsequently became the parish church of Ellerton.
The advowson of the church was augmented in 1732 and 1794 through Queen Anne's Bounty. By the 1840s the medieval church building had fallen into considerable disrepair and the architect John Loughborough Pearson was commissioned to design a new parish church, dedicated to St Mary, which was completed and consecrated in 1848. The medieval church was demolished.
The church was made redundant and appropriated for use as joiner's workshop on the 14th Nov 1979. In 1995 it was taken over by the newly formed Ellerton Church Preservation Trust and has since been restored.
Today Ellerton is part of the parish of Bubwith with Ellerton and Aughton.

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 2004.

Registers of christenings, 1675-1885, marriages, 1675-1885, burials, 1675-1987, and banns, 1824-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 679, 882, 176).
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, 04.02.16.

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