Over Silton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Over Silton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1757 from a chapelry in Kilburn Ecclesiastical Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Kepwick.

Alternative names:

Riding: North Riding

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1678
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SILTON (Over), a township in Northallerton district, and a parish partly also in Thirsk district, N. R. Yorkshire.

The township lies 6¼ miles E by N of Northallerton r. station. Acres, 1,174. Real property, £968. Pop., 94. Houses, 18.

The parish contains also Kepwick township, and comprises 3,694 acres. Post town, Northallerton. Pop., 255. Houses, 59. About one-third of the land is moor. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £98. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is tolerable.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Over Silton

England, Yorkshire, Over Silton – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Monumental inscriptions Boltby & Siltons area
Author:    Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society

Monumental inscriptions, Over Silton, N. Yks.
Author:    McLee, Carol A.; Cleveland Family History Society

Over Silton, St. Mary baptisms, marriages & burials
Author:    Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Over Silton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Over Silton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Over Silton – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census for Ellerbeck, Nether Silton, Over Silton, Thimbleby, Osmotherley
Author:    Cleveland Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Over Silton – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Over Silton, 1601-1861
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Over Silton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Over Silton, parish registers, 1678-1979
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Over Silton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Over Silton, 1678-1877
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Over Silton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Over Silton – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Over Silton, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Over Silton, Yorkshire, England ; christenings, 1732-1877
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Kepwick

England, Yorkshire, Kepwick – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Kepwick, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Northallerton
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Bulmer
  • Poor Law Union: Northallerton
  • Hundred: Birdforth
  • Province: York