Appleton Wiske Yorkshire Family History Guide

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

Alternative names: Appleton upon Wiske

Riding: North Riding

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1596
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

APPLETON-WISKE, or Appleton-upon-Wiske, a chapelry and a subdistrict, in the district of Northallerton, N. R. Yorkshire.

The chapelry lies on the river Wiske, 3 miles NW of Welbury r. station, and 7½ NNE of Northallerton; and it has a post office under Northallerton. Acres, 1,827. Real property, £2,300. Pop., 466. Houses, 119. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York, annexed to the rectory of Great Smeaton in the diocese of Ripon. The church is very bad.

The subdistrict comprises six parishes, and parts of three other parishes. Acres, 26,590. Pop., 2,952. Houses, 620.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Yorkshire, Appleton-upon-Wiske

England, Yorkshire, Appleton-Wiske – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions for St. Mary’s Churchyard, Appleton Wiske, 1700-1984

North Yorkshire monumental inscriptions for Appleton Wiske, St. Marys
Author:    McLee, Carol A.; Cleveland Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Appleton-Wiske – 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 Appleton upon Wiske, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Appleton-Wiske – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Appleton-Wiske, 1604-1848
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Appleton-Wiske (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Appleton-Wiske, parish registers, 1596-1991
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Appleton-Wiske (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Appleton-Wiske – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Appleton Wiske, Yorks., Eng

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: Langbaurgh
  • Province: York