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Sockburn Girsby, All Saints Parish

Reference: EP/Soc Catalogue Title: Sockburn Girsby, All Saints Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1580-2007

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  • Sockburn Girsby, All Saints Parish
    • Sockburn All Saints Parish (Ref: EP/Soc)
    • Registration (Ref: EP/Soc 1/)
    • Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 01)
    • Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 02)
    • Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 03)
    • Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 04)
    • Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 05)
    • Acts of Parliament concerning registration (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 06)
    • Clergy (Ref: EP/Soc 2/)
    • Registers of services (Ref: EP/Soc 2/section 01)
    • Benefice (Ref: EP/Soc 2/section 02)
    • Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Soc 2/section 03)
    • Tithe (Ref: EP/Soc 3/)
    • Tithe plans and apportionments (Ref: EP/Soc 3/section 01)
    • Redemption of tithes (Ref: EP/Soc 3/section 02)
    • Altered apportionments (Ref: EP/Soc 3/section 03)
    • Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Soc 4/)
    • Church (Ref: EP/Soc 4/section 01)
    • Vicarage (Ref: EP/Soc 4/section 02)
    • Quinqennial inspections (Ref: EP/Soc 4/section 03)
    • Financial records (Ref: EP/Soc 4/section 04)
    • Church rate (Ref: EP/Soc 4/)
    • Churchwardens accounts (Ref: EP/Soc 4/)
    • Churchwardens receipts (Ref: EP/Soc 4/)
    • Schools (Ref: EP/Soc 11/)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Soc 14/)

Catalogue Description

Sockburn is an ancient parish, which includes the Yorkshire towns of Girsby and Over Dinsdale.

The original church was disused from 1838 and is now a ruin. The remains of the building are to the southwest of Sockburn Hall. The "new" church was erected in Girsby (See EP/Soc 2/2). In spite of the Victoria County History of Yorkshire proclaiming "The new church at Girsby is an uninteresting building with round-headed windows", it has been designated a grade II listed building by English Heritage.

'Parishes: Sockburn', A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1 (1914), pp. 449-454. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64784 Date accessed: 31 October 2013.

http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1116153 accessed 31 October 2013

Catalogue Contents

Sockburn All Saints Parish (Ref: EP/Soc)Registration (Ref: EP/Soc 1/)Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 01)

1/1-2

Ref: EP/Soc 1/1

Register of baptisms, 28 February 1580 - 26 January 1730/31; register of marriages, 1593 - 15 November 1733; register of burials, March 1580 - 29 July 1731. Also includes: Memorandum of the reading of the book of articles of religion, 2 September 1604 (p.9) Memorandum of the induction of William Harrison M.A., 13 January 1620/21 (p.18) Memorandum of the reading of the book of articles of religion, 4 February 1620/21 (p.20) Memorandum of induction of and reading of articles of religion by William Hutton, B. A., 8 July 1662 (p.26) Memorandum of archdeacon's visitation, 26 April 1697 and induction of Robert Dent, 20 June 1729 (p.34) Memoranda of induction of and reading of articles of religion by Richard Newhouse, B. A., 10 and 11 September 1699 and reading of 39 articles by vicar of Dinsdale, 22 June 1729 (p.36) Memorandum of a gift by the archdeacon of a book entitled Two Select Discourses, 24 June 1704 (p.39) Memorandum of affidavits sworn concerning burials in woolen, Long Newton, 2 January 1678 (p.45) Memoranda of induction of and the reading of the 39 articles by Alexander Christie, M.A., 5 and 17 July 1726 and induction of Robert Lakeland, 12 October 1728 (p.47) Memorandum of the reading of the 39 articles by Rev. Thomas Nicholson, 1 April 1688 (p.51) Memorandum of induction of John Perkin, B. A., 8 July 1722 (p.55)
(1 volume, calf bound)

Ref: EP/Soc 1/2

Register of baptisms, 24 February 1732 - 18 October 1812; register of marriages, 5 November 1735 - 28 November 1752, one entry for 27 April 1778; register of burials, 21 May 1733 - 4 November 1811 Also includes: Memorandum of licency to the curacy of Rev. Thomas Ewbank, 29 July 1788 (p.3) Memorandum of induction of John Robson, M.A., 1 December 1759 (p.10)
(1 volume, leather bound)

Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 02)

1/7

Ref: EP/Soc 1/7

Register of baptisms, 1 January 1813 - 10 October 1993 At beginning and on p.17: note of payment of £20 p.a. by the Master of Sherburn Hospital to the Vicar of Sockburn, in lieu of the gift by the Master of an ox to the bishop of Durham at the time of the summer assizes, 29 July 1832
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 03)

1/3-4, 6

Ref: EP/Soc 1/3

Register of marriages, 29 April 1756 - 4 July 1812; register of banns, 16 March 1755 - 28 June 1812
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: EP/Soc 1/4

Register of marriages, 10 July 1813 - 21 November 1835
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Soc 1/6

Register of marriages, 2 January 1838 - 18 December 1982 (closed by Superintendent Registrar on 8 October 1987)
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 04)

1/5

Ref: EP/Soc 1/5

Register of banns, 16 June 1833 - 19 April 1953
(1 volume, calf bound)

Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 05)

1/8

Ref: EP/Soc 1/8

Register of burials, 24 January 1813 - 9 September 1992
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Acts of Parliament concerning registration (Ref: EP/Soc 1/section 06)

2/7-9

Ref: EP/Soc 2/7

Circular letter from the Bishop of Durham concerning the improved form of parochial registers, 30 September 1797
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: EP/Soc 2/8

Burial Laws Amendment Act, 7 September 1880
(1 file, printed)

Ref: EP/Soc 2/9

Circular to the clergy relative to the provisions of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874, 19 June 1885

Clergy (Ref: EP/Soc 2/)Registers of services (Ref: EP/Soc 2/section 01)

2/1

Ref: EP/Soc 2/1

Register of services, 1 March 1921 - 14 March 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Benefice (Ref: EP/Soc 2/section 02)

2/6

Ref: EP/Soc 2/6

Papers concerning the union of the benefice of Sockburn and Dinsdale and the proposed alteration of the boundaries between Dinsdale and Middleton St. George, 23 June 1928
(1 file)

Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Soc 2/section 03)

2/10

Ref: EP/Soc 2/10

Programme of Collation and Induction of Rev. Leonard A. Piper to the united benefice of Dinsdale with Sockburn, 28 March 1968
(1 booklet, printed)

Tithe (Ref: EP/Soc 3/)Tithe plans and apportionments (Ref: EP/Soc 3/section 01)

3/4-5

Ref: EP/Soc 3/4

Tithe plan and apportionment of the township and manor of Sockburn, 22 February 1840 Scale: 4 chains to 1 inch [1 : 3168]
(1 plan, 65.5 cm. x 114 cm., 1 file, parchment)

Ref: EP/Soc 3/5

Tithe plan and apportionment of the townships of Girsby and Over Dinsdale in the parish of Sockburn in the North Riding of the County of York, 1847 Scale: 6 chains to 1 inch [1 : 4752]
(1 plan, 143 cm. x 67 cm.; 1 file, parchment)

Redemption of tithes (Ref: EP/Soc 3/section 02)

3/1-3

Ref: EP/Soc 3/1

Letter from William Raine at Darlington to Rev. John Clegg concerning posting of notices of distress at Girsby Green Farm, 25 November 1880
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Soc 3/2

Letter from the Bounty Office, London to Rev. John Clegg concerning redemption of tithes, 17 June 1919
(1 paper, typescript)

Ref: EP/Soc 3/3

Certificate of redemption of tithe rent-charge for Girsby with related correspondence, 1 January and 27 May 1920
(1 file, parchment, 2 papers, printed form)

Altered apportionments (Ref: EP/Soc 3/section 03)

3/6

Ref: EP/Soc 3/6

Altered tithe apportionment for the parish of Dinsdale, 13 August 1902 Originally enclosed in EP/Soc 3/5
(1 file, parchment and paper)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Soc 4/)

1-17

Church (Ref: EP/Soc 4/section 01)

2/2, 4/7

Ref: EP/Soc 2/2

Copy instrument substituting the new church for the old church and for the transfer of endowments etc., 11 July 1848
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/7

Correspondence, accounts, lists of donors etc., concerning the Parrington Memorial Window, 13 April 1875 - 2 April 1878
(1 file)

Vicarage (Ref: EP/Soc 4/section 02)

2/3-5

Ref: EP/Soc 2/3

The London Gazette, concerning a grant of £600 toward the cost of providing a parsonage house for the cure, 26 May 1911
(1 booklet, printed)

Ref: EP/Soc 2/4

29 May 1912 (1) Sir Henry Spencer Moreton Havelock-Allan, Bart.; Arthur Lucas of Bournemouth, Hampshire, Esq.; Edward Hutcheson of Darlington, solicitor; and Ralph Edward Lambton of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, banker (2) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Copy conveyance of a parcel of land in Sockburn parish fronting on the road from Sockburn Hall to Low Dinsdale, as specified on the plan annexed, for the site of a parsonage house Consideration: £25
(1 file, printed)

Ref: EP/Soc 2/5

Correspondence, solicitors' bills and receipts, concerning the conveyance of the parsonage house site, 18 May - 21 June 1912
(1 file)

Quinqennial inspections (Ref: EP/Soc 4/section 03)

4/16/1

Ref: EP/Soc 4/16/1

Quinquennial inspection report, 2007
(1 booklet)

Financial records (Ref: EP/Soc 4/section 04)Churchwardens accounts (Ref: EP/Soc 4/)

4/1-2, 17
See also D/X 2009/1

Ref: EP/Soc 4/1

Account book of the churchwardens, 20 April 1725 - 3 June 1737
(1 volume, paper, badly damaged)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/2

Account book of the churchwardens, 2 June 1805 - 9 April 1860; also includes minutes of vestry meetings, 28 March 1815 - 15 May 1860
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/17

Churchwarden accounts for Sockburn, Girsby and Dinsdale parishes, 9 April 1860 - 25 April 1924
(1 volume)

Churchwardens receipts (Ref: EP/Soc 4/)

4/8-15

Ref: EP/Soc 4/8

Churchwardens' receipts, 19 April - 10 December 1856
(4 papers)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/9

Churchwardens' receipts, 1 June 1857 - November 1858
(6 papers)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/10

Churchwardens' receipts, 1859 - 9 April 1860
(5 papers)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/11

Churchwardens' receipts, 7 May 1860 - 21 April 1862
(10 papers)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/12

Churchwardens' receipts, October 1861 - April 1863
(5 papers)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/13

Churchwardens' receipts, 8 August 1863 - March 1866
(19 papers)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/14

Churchwardens' receipts, 23 April 1866 - 22 April 1867
(7 papers)

Ref: EP/Soc 4/15

Churchwardens1 receipts, 29 June 1869 - 20 April 1870
(10 papers)

Church rate (Ref: EP/Soc 4/)

4/3-6

Ref: EP/Soc 4/3-6

Church rate assessments for the townships of Girsby, Sockburn and Over Dinsdale, 5 February 1858, 18 February 1859, 6 March 1860 and 27 February 1861
(4 papers)

Schools (Ref: EP/Soc 11/)

12/1

Ref: EP/Soc 12/1

Scheme for the administration of Barnard Castle Grammar School and Flounder's Charity, 4 February 1881
(1 file, printed)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Soc 14/)

14/1

Ref: EP/Soc 14/1

Note of 'Labour for Summer 1843': list of various agricultural tasks to be undertaken, 1843 Originally enclosed in EP/Soc 1/8
(1 paper)



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