Parish records of Bishop Wilton

Includes register of christenings, 1613-1944 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1777-1786); register of marriages, 1613-1973; register of burials, 1613-1866 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1777-1812, ages only from 1793; register of banns, 1833-1927; register of services, 1905-1973; records concerning benefice income, including glebe papers, 1787-1827, and correspondence and papers, 1750, 1798; charity records, including accounts, 1707-1713, 1722, list of lands, 1727, deed, 1929, and notes, 19th century; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1772-1867, 1940-1964, and fabric papers, 1632-1633, 1649, 1654, 1787-1824, 1859, 1927-1929, 1935; records of incumbents, including grant of advowson, 1873, memos on parsonage house, 1787-1824, and deed and mortgage for vicarage house, 1905-1906, 1936; overseers’ records, including accounts, 1887-1907, and survey of parish landholders and acreage, 1827; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1920-1964, 1975-1990, accounts, 1933-2000, enclosure awards for Bishop Wilton, 1726, 1772, enclosure award for Gowthorpe, 1814, magazines, 1968, 1971, ruridecanal magazines, 1914, 1916-1917, Industrial Christian Fellowship magazines, 1956-1959, and parish maps, 1949.

The church of St Edith at Bishop Wilton was first recorded in Domesday in the eleventh century and probably owes its dedication to Ealdred, Archbishop of York from 1061 and previously Bishop of Wiltshire, the county of Edith’s birth and the site of Wilton Abbey where she later took Holy Orders.
The church was appropriated to the Prebendary of Wilton in 1241, and a vicarage ordained therein in 1311. The Prebendary was assigned to the Treasurer of York who held peculiar jurisdiction over Bishop Wilton, Alne and Tollerton and Acomb until the office was dissolved in 1547. The parish was subsequently subject to the jurisdiction of the Peculiar Court of Bishop Wilton within the dissolved Treasurership until 1836.
The parish historically included the townships of Bolton, Besthorpe, Golthorpe and Youlthorpe, as well as Bishop Wilton. It was augmented in 1756, 1787, 1795 and 1797 through Queen Anne’s Bounty, and again in 1823 by parliamentary grant. St Edith’s Church was restored by John Loughborough Pearson in 1858-1859 at the expense of Sir Tatton Sykes of Sledmere Hall (whose family held the advowson for most of the nineteenth century).
In 1873 the advowson was transferred by the Sykes family to the Dean and Chapter of York.

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 1977 by the incumbent. Further additions were made to the archive in 1982 and 2011.

The church of St Edith at Bishop Wilton was first recorded in Domesday in the eleventh century and probably owes its dedication to Ealdred, Archbishop of York from 1061 and previously Bishop of Wiltshire, the county of Edith’s birth and the site of Wilton Abbey where she later took Holy Orders.
The church was appropriated to the Prebendary of Wilton in 1241, and a vicarage ordained therein in 1311. The Prebendary was assigned to the Treasurer of York who held peculiar jurisdiction over Bishop Wilton, Alne and Tollerton and Acomb until the office was dissolved in 1547. The parish was subsequently subject to the jurisdiction of the Peculiar Court of Bishop Wilton within the dissolved Treasurership until 1836.
The parish historically included the townships of Bolton, Besthorpe, Golthorpe and Youlthorpe, as well as Bishop Wilton. It was augmented in 1756, 1787, 1795 and 1797 through Queen Anne’s Bounty, and again in 1823 by parliamentary grant. St Edith’s Church was restored by John Loughborough Pearson in 1858-1859 at the expense of Sir Tatton Sykes of Sledmere Hall (whose family held the advowson for most of the nineteenth century).
In 1873 the advowson was transferred by the Sykes family to the Dean and Chapter of York.

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 2011.

Registers of christenings, 1613-1944, marriages, 1613-1973, burials, 1613-1866, and banns, 1833-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 643, 1593, 1752, 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, 22.12.15.

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Further accruals are expected.

The papers of the Sykes family of Sledmere are held by Hull University and include deeds and other papers relating to Bishop Wilton, 1379-1917.

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