Parish records of Walton

Includes register of christenings, 1619-1987; register of marriages, 1619-1960; register of burials, 1619-1993 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1777-1812); register of banns, 1823-1955; register of services, 1913-1971; records concerning benefice income, including glebe papers, 1861-1939, tithe papers, early 20th century, and table of fees, [early 20th century]; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1815-1928, fabric papers and photograph, 1889-1986, restoration fund account book, 1889-1898, and churchyard plan, 1980s; constables’ accounts, 1816-1837; records of incumbents, including envelope scheme accounts, 1965-1967, 1975-1983, service papers, n.d, 1960, and parsonage house papers, 1858-1861; overseers’ accounts, 1816-1857; surveyors’ accounts, 1768-1860; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including enclosure award and map, 1829, and minutes of meetings, 1921-1966, 1981-1990.

There was a church at Walton from at least the twelfth century. It was originally a chapel of ease within the parish of Thorp Arch and was given to Nun Monkton Priory at an early date and later appropriated, with its mother church, to the collegiate Chapel of St Mary and the Holy Angels (also known as St Sepulchre’s) in York.
Parts of the present church, which is dedicated to St Peter, date to the twelfth century, although it was largely rebuilt in the fourteenth. The church was restored in 1891. In 1877 a new organ was installed, made by Foster and Andrews of Hull. The village was owned for many years by the Fairfax family. It later passed to the Lane Fox family of Bramham Park and it was George Lane Fox who funded the 1891 restoration work.
Walton appears to have been a separate parish by at least 1821. In 1977 the benefices of Thorpe Arch and Walton were united.
Today Walton is part of the parish of Lower Wharfe and benefice of Bramham, the latter of which also includes Thorp Arch, Bramham and Boston Spa.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1963 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1978, 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1997.

There was a church at Walton from at least the twelfth century. It was originally a chapel of ease within the parish of Thorp Arch and was given to Nun Monkton Priory at an early date and later appropriated, with its mother church, to the collegiate Chapel of St Mary and the Holy Angels (also known as St Sepulchre’s) in York.
Parts of the present church, which is dedicated to St Peter, date to the twelfth century, although it was largely rebuilt in the fourteenth. The church was restored in 1891. In 1877 a new organ was installed, made by Foster and Andrews of Hull. The village was owned for many years by the Fairfax family. It later passed to the Lane Fox family of Bramham Park and it was George Lane Fox who funded the 1891 restoration work.
Walton appears to have been a separate parish by at least 1821. In 1977 the benefices of Thorpe Arch and Walton were united.
Today Walton is part of the parish of Lower Wharfe and benefice of Bramham, the latter of which also includes Thorp Arch, Bramham and Boston Spa.

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 1997.

Registers of christenings, 1619-1987, marriages, 1619-1960, burials, 1619-1993, and banns, 1823-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 803, 1581, 1755, 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, 22.03.16.

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Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 'The parish register of Walton in Ainsty. Vols. I-IV. 1619-1837.' Transcribed and edited by George Edward Kirk (Wakefield, 1963).

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