Kirkby Overblow Yorkshire Family History Guide
Kirkby Overblow is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Spacey Houses, Sicklinghall, Rigton, Kirkby Overblow with Swindon, Kirkby cum Netherby, Kearby with Netherby, Kearby cum Netherby, Brackenthwaite, Brackenfoot, Barrowby, Alton Head, Woodhall, Walton Head, Swindon, and Swinden.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1647
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1632
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KIRKBY-OVERBLOW, a village and a township in Knaresborongh district, and a parish partly also in Otley district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on an eminence near the river Wharfe, 2 miles SE of Pannal r. station, and 4 SSE of Harrogate; commands a fine view over an extensive plain; and has a post office under Tadcaster.
The township comprises 1, 409 acres. Real property, £3, 108. Pop., 280. Houses, 65. The parish contains also the townships of Rigton, Sicklinghall, Kearby-with-Netherby, and Stainburn. Acres, 10, 704. Real property, £13, 487. Pop., 1, 569. Houses, 328. The manor of K. O. belongs to Henry R. J. Scott, Esq; and that of Rigton, to the Earl of Harewood.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £944. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is ancient, of various dates and styles; was repaired in 1781; has a tower; and was formerly collegiate. The p. curacy of Stainburn is a separate benefice.
There are Wesleyan chapels in K. O., Sicklinghall, Rigton, and Stainburn, a Roman Catholic church and monastery in Sicklinghall, a large school in the Gothic style in Rigton, parochial schools in K. O., Sicklinghall, and Stainburn, and charities £28. The school rooms in Rigton and Sicklinghall are used as chapels of ease.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Paver’s Marriage Licences
It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.
1630 Henry Favell, Kirkby Overblow, and Dorothy Wright, Pawnall—at Kirkby Overblow. (According to Dugdale’s Visitation he was Steward to Algernon, Earl of Northumberland. She was dau. of Christopher Wright of Maltby.)
Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Knaresborough
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Carlton Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Claro
- Province: York