Great Smeaton Yorkshire Family History Guide

Great Smeaton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Appleton Wiske is a chapelry of Great Smeaton.

Other places in the parish include: Hornby near Northallerton, Hornby, and Enter Common.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1573
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1679

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SMEATON (Great), a township in Northallerton district, and a parish partly also in Darlington district, but all in N. R. Yorkshire.

The township lies near the river Tees, 2¼ miles ENE of Cowton r. station, and 7 N by W of Northallerton. Acres, 3,315. Real property, £2,588. Pop., 208. Houses, 49.

The parish contains also the chapelry of Appleton-upon-Wiske, which has a post-office under Northallerton, the township of Hornby, and part of the t. of Croft; and comprises 1,192 acres. Pop., 927. Houses, 221. The property is divided among a few. The surface commands fine views.

The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Ripon, united with Appleton-upon-Wiske, in the diocese of York. Value, £700. Patron, the Rev. S. Tenison Mosse. The church is ancient. There is a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Great Smeaton – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions for St. Eloy, Great Smeaton, 1740-1970

Monumental inscriptions, Great Smeaton, St. Eloy, North Yorkshire
Author: McLee, Carol A.; Cleveland Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Great Smeaton – Census ( 2 )
1851 census for E. & W. Rounton, Welbury, Appleton-on-Wiske, Hornby, Great Smeaton : census no. HO 107, piece ref. no. 2376
Author: Cleveland Family History Society

Census returns for Great Smeaton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Great Smeaton – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Great Smeaton, 1679-1895
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Smeaton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Great Smeaton, parish registers, 1573-2002
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Smeaton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Great Smeaton – Church records – Indexes ( 5 )
Computer printout : Great Smeaton, York, England (1813-1847), births or christenings A thru Z

Computer printout of Appleton Wiske, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Great Smeaton, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Great Smeaton, Yorkshire, England ; christenings, 1679-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Great Smeaton, Yorkshire, England ; marriages, 1679-1847
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Northallerton
  • 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: Northallerton
  • Hundred: East Gilling
  • Province: York