Bubwith, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Bubwith is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Breighton, Willitoft, Spaldington Outside, Spaldington, Harlthorpe, Harlethorpe, Gunby, Gribthorpe and Willitoft, Gribthorpe, Foggathorpe, Breighton cum Gunby, and Breighton and Gunby.

Parish church: All Saints

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1623
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Bubwith Parish Registers

Yorkshire Bubwith Parish Register, 1600-1767

Parish Records

“Snowden Dunhill – The Convict” (S. Baring-Gould, published 1877). A summary presentation of  “The life of Snowden Dunhill, as told by himself” (S. Dunning aka Dunhill, published 1834). Text of Snowden Dunning (alias Dunhill)’s autobiography, written in Tasmania and published in 1834. This text is taken from ‘Yorkshire Oddities’ which was published in 1877. Also includes extracts from several contemporary (Tasmanian) newspaper articles regarding Snowden. Transcription by mfwuk. Publisher: S. Baring-Gould Date of publication: 1877 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Parish History

Bubwith

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUBWITH, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict in Howden district, E. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Derwent, and on the Selby and Market-Weighton railway, 6¼ miles NE by E of Selby; and has two stations on the railway, Bubwith and Bubwith-High-Field, ¾ of a mile distant from each other, and a post office under Howden. Acres, 1,420. Real property, £2,833. Pop., 554. Houses, 125. The parish contains also the townships of Harlthorpe, Foggathorpe, Gribthorpe, Willitoft, Spaldington, and Breighton-cum-Gunby. Acres, 10,154. Real property, £12,753. Pop., 1,453. Houses, 303.

The property is subdivided. A bridge, of three large and seven smaller arches, is on the Derwent at Bubwith township. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £102. Patrons, alternately the Lord Chancellor and the Dean and Chapter of York. The church is a fine edifice of nave, aisles, and chancel, with square, embattled, and pinnacled tower; and was renovated in 1792. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £21. Bishop Nicholas de Bubwith, who attended the council of Constance, was a native. The subdistrict includes another parish and part of a third. Acres, 15,861. Pop., 2,108. Houses, 431.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BUBWITH (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Howden, Holme-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, E. riding of York; consisting of the seven townships of Breighton with Gunby, Bubwith, Foggathorpe, Gribthorpe, Harlthorpe, Spaldington, and Willitoft; and containing 1370 inhabitants, of whom 524 are in the township of Bubwith, 6½ miles (N. N. W.) from Howden.

The parish is bounded for about a mile on the west by the navigable river Derwent, and is intersected by the road between Selby and Market-Weighton; in the township are about 1300 acres of well-cultivated land, entirely of level surface. The village is situated close to the river, over which is a stone bridge of ten arches, built in 1793, at a cost of £2000. A corn market, established a few years ago, is held every Wednesday.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £15. 2. 11.; net income, £102: it is in the alternate patronage of the Crown and the Dean and Chapter of York, the latter being appropriators. The church, partly in the Norman and partly in the early English style, has a square tower. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. Nicholas de Bubwith, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who was one of the English prelates that were present at the council of Constance, in the year 1415, was a native of the parish.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Spaldington

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SPALDINGTON, a township in Bubwith parish, E. R. Yorkshire; 4 miles N by E of Howden. It has a post-office under Howden. Acres, 3,170. Real property, £4,092. Pop., 363. Houses, 70. S. Hall was the seat of the Vavasours. There is a Methodist chapel.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Howden
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Harthill and Hull
  • Poor Law Union: Howden
  • Hundred: Harthill
  • Province: York