Parish records of Long Marston

Includes register of Christenings, 1645-1994 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1796-1813); register of marriages, 1645-1983, 1985-2000; register of burials, 1645-1994 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1796-1813); register of services, 1923-1962; records concerning benefice income, including papers concerning tithe and common rights disputes, c.1630-1670, tithe lease, 1803, correspondence and papers, 1867-1936, and glebe buildings papers, 1929-1936; charity records, including correspondence and papers, 1795, 1825-1826, 1842, 1851-1857, 1891, 1905-1906, 1909, 1925-1932, and bonds for poor's money, 1654-1697; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, 1778-1967, briefs, 1707-1827, fabric papers, 1870, 1914, 1977-1995, churchyard papers including lists of graves, 1876, 1978-1980, and historical notes on the church, 1988; records of incumbents, including contemporary notes on Registration Act of 1812, parsonage house papers, 1848, and statistical returns, 1911-1922; overseers’ records, including rates papers, 1813, 1885, settlement certificates, 1701, 1707, 1711, removal order, 1709, and apprenticeship indenture, 1718; school records, including correspondence and papers, 1858, 1875, 1903-1935, and deeds, 1709, 1859; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1822-1843, 1892-1991, minutes of Standing Committee, 1988-1998, annual meeting minutes, 1991-2005, accounts, 1929, 1987, map of Hutton Wandesley and Angram, early 19th century, and land tax papers, c.1886.

There was a church and chapel of ease in the parish from at least the twelfth century. The church was at Chapel Hill near Angram, whilst the chapel was at Long Marston.
The church had fallen into disrepair by the end of the fourteenth century and in 1400 parishioners were granted a faculty to take down the old church and use the materials to remodel the chapel at Long Marston into their new parish church, dedicated to All Saints. The church tower was added later in the fifteenth century and the church was restored in 1869.
The parish includes Long Marston, Angram and Hutton Wandesley. Noteworthy rectors of the parish include William Akroyd, who died in 1518 leaving money to found the Ackroyd Exhibition, and Dr Thomas Morton, who was rector from 1598 and later became successively Bishop of Chester, Lichfield and Durham.
Today Long Marston is part of the parish of Marston Moor and the united benefice of North Ainsty, both of which also include Askham Richard, Bilbrough, Rufforth and Tockwith.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1963. Further additions were made to the archive in 1978, 1983, 1989, 1996, 2001, 2002 and 2013.

There was a church and chapel of ease in the parish from at least the twelfth century. The church was at Chapel Hill near Angram, whilst the chapel was at Long Marston.
The church had fallen into disrepair by the end of the fourteenth century and in 1400 parishioners were granted a faculty to take down the old church and use the materials to remodel the chapel at Long Marston into their new parish church, dedicated to All Saints. The church tower was added later in the fifteenth century and the church was restored in 1869.
The parish includes Long Marston, Angram and Hutton Wandesley. Noteworthy rectors of the parish include William Akroyd, who died in 1518 leaving money to found the Ackroyd Exhibition, and Dr Thomas Morton, who was rector from 1598 and later became successively Bishop of Chester, Lichfield and Durham.
Today Long Marston is part of the parish of Marston Moor and the united benefice of North Ainsty, both of which also include Askham Richard, Bilbrough, Rufforth and Tockwith.

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 2002.

Selected records, including registers of christenings, marriages, and burials, 1645-1900, churchwardens' accounts, 1778-1900, and poor law papers, 1653-1885, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 734, 1753, 1770).
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, 24.02.16

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For related material held by the Borthwick Institute concerning the Akroyd Foundation, see the records of Akroyd Exhibition.

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