Easby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Aske, Waithwith Grange, Skeeby, Citadilla, Brompton upon Swale with Citadilla, Brompton upon Swale, and Brompton on Swale.
Alternative names: Easby near Richmond
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1670
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1663
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
- Kirkby Ravensworth
- St Martin
- Richmond
- Hipswell
- Catterick and Tunstall
- Middleton Tyas
- Gilling
- Bolton upon Swale
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
EASBY, a township and a parish in Richmond district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Swale, and on the Richmond railway, 1 mile SE by E of Richmond. Acres, 940. Real property, £2, 441. Pop., 118. Houses, 23. The parish includes also the townships of Skeeby, Aske, and Brompton-upon-Swale; and its post town is Richmond, Yorkshire. Acres, 5, 090. Real property, £8, 630. Pop., 844. Houses, 183. The property is subdivided. A Premonstratensian abbey was founded here, in 1152, by Roald, constable of Richmond: and considerable remains of it still exist. The refectory, 102 feet by 27, has a well-preserved, early-decorated English, east window; the cloister court retains a Norman doorway of the original edifice; the chapter-house is early English, with some later features; the transept of the church retains beautiful clustered columns and some windows; and the gateway, at a short distance from the ruins. continues in excellent preservation, and has a large upper apartment which, after the dissolution, was used as a granary. Easby Hall is the seat of the Champion family. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Brampton-on-Swale, in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £160. Patron, Leonard Jaques, Esq. The church shows features from Norman down to later English; has three sedilia, and a very old Norman font; and was restored in 1869. There are two chapels of ease and a Wesleyan chapel. Charities, £14.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
Yorkshire Archives & Family History Groups
Sheffield Archives & Local Studies
Bradford Family History Society
East Yorkshire Family History Society
Sheffield & District Family History Society
Yorkshire
England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887
England, Yorkshire, Allertonshire, Marriage Bonds & Allegations, 1667-1819
England, Yorkshire, Allertonshire, Marriage Bonds & Allegations, 1667-1819 – Images
Leeds General Cemetery Burials
Sheffield Police Ticket of Leave book (1864–1874)
Sheffield Quarter Sessions 1880-1912
Quarter Sessions (A-J Defendant) (PDF, 1732 KB)
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Quarter Sessions (A-J Victim) (PDF, 1769 KB)
Quarter Sessions (K-Z Victim) (PDF, 2013 KB)
South Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum Patients
Leeds Roll of Honour 1914-1918
West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
The Yorkshire Regiment – First World War Remembrance
Sheffield Telegraph Obituaries 1850-1970
Leeds and Bradford Photographic Studios
1881 Residents of Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse
Index to Register of Inmates (Surnames A – C) (PDF, 633 KB)
Index to Register of Inmates (Surnames D – J) (PDF, 716 KB)
Index to Register of Inmates (Surnames K – R) (PDF, 636 KB)
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School Admission Registers 1870-1914. These records cover 63 schools in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Records for England
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Non-Conformist Records
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Census
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Maps
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Richmond (Yorkshire)
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Richmond
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Richmond
- Poor Law Union: Richmond
- Hundred: East Gilling; West Gilling
- Province: York