Bowes, Yorkshire Genealogy
Guide to Bowes, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Bowes, Yorkshire | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | West Gilling |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Poor Law Union | Teesdale |
| Registration District | Teesdale |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1670 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1615 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Richmond |
| Diocese | Pre-1836 - York; Post-1835 - Ripon |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries - Richmond |
| Location of Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BOWES (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Teesdale, wapentake of Gilling-West, N. riding of York, 6 miles (W. by N.) from Greta-Bridge; containing 850 inhabitants, of whom 763 are in the township of Bowes, and 87 in that of Gillmonby. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. [1]
BOWES, a village, a township, and a parish in the district of Teesdale, and N. R. Yorkshire. [2]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Online data content from chapelry registers of Bowes exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:
| IARC = Archive.org | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch.org | |||||
| ANC = Ancestry.co.uk (£) | |||||
| HATH = HathiTrust.org | |||||
| JOIN = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk - (£) |
| BOWES PARISH (1615) Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS | 1615-1858 |
1615-1843 |
1690-1785 |
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| JOIN | None |
1615-1837 |
None |
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| AC | None |
None |
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To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the North Yorkshire County Record Office.
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Teesdale Poor Law Union, Durham
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 317-320. Date accessed: 03 January 2014.
- ↑ John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870-72
