Parish records of Settrington

Includes register of christenings, 1559-1977; register of marriages, 1559-1999; register of burials, 1559-1979; register of banns, 1821-2014; register of services, 1896-1899, 1910-1992; records concerning benefice income, including correspondence and papers, 1876-1939; charity records, including accounts, 1824-1836, and note of lands purchased, n.d; churchwardens’ accounts, 1771-1920, and fabric papers, 1979-1995; records of incumbents, including parish history correspondence and papers, 1876-1888, and parsonage house papers, 1887; overseers’ records, including overseers’ book, 1820-1863; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes, 1988-1992, 1994-2004, accounts and correspondence, 1993-1994, vestry minutes and cash book for Settrington and Scagglethorpe, 1920-1948, parish boundary maps, 1965, and photocopy maps of parish, 1599, 1961; photographs of church buildings and ornaments, 1960s.

There was a church at Settrington from at least the twelfth century. The church originally comprised a vicarage and rectory but these were consolidated by Archbishop Walter de Gray in 1249. The manor and advowson was held by the Bigod family, Earls of Norfolk, until 1302 when Roger Bigod alienated both to Sir John Bigod of Stockton who founded a Settrington branch of the family. It descended with the family line until the sixteenth century. By the 1840s it had passed to the Earls of Bridgewater.
The present parish church, which is dedicated to All Saints, dates to the late twelfth century, although the tower was built in the fifteenth. The chancel was rebuilt in 1867-1868 by architect John Loughborough Pearson and the interior includes the later work of Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson of Kilburn. In 1951 the south aisle chapel was restored by George Pace.
The parish includes the township of Scagglethorpe. Today Settrington with Scagglethorpe is part of the united parish and benefice of West Buckrose, which also includes Acklam, Birdsall, Burythorpe, Langton, Leavening, North Grimston and Westow.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1968. Further additions were made to the archive in 1979, 1997, 1999, 2007, 2013 and 2014.

There was a church at Settrington from at least the twelfth century. The church originally comprised a vicarage and rectory but these were consolidated by Archbishop Walter de Gray in 1249. The manor and advowson was held by the Bigod family, Earls of Norfolk, until 1302 when Roger Bigod alienated both to Sir John Bigod of Stockton who founded a Settrington branch of the family. It descended with the family line until the sixteenth century. By the 1840s it had passed to the Earls of Bridgewater.
The present parish church, which is dedicated to All Saints, dates to the late twelfth century, although the tower was built in the fifteenth. The chancel was rebuilt in 1867-1868 by architect John Loughborough Pearson and the interior includes the later work of Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson of Kilburn. In 1951 the south aisle chapel was restored by George Pace.
The parish includes the township of Scagglethorpe. Today Settrington with Scagglethorpe is part of the united parish and benefice of West Buckrose, which also includes Acklam, Birdsall, Burythorpe, Langton, Leavening, North Grimston and Westow.

A typescript finding aid, to file level, is available for consultation in the searchroom of the Borthwick Institute. This includes all material received up to and including 2014.

Selected records, including registers of christenings, marriages and burials, 1559-1900, banns, 1822-1901, and churchwardens' accounts, 1771-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 773, 1757, 1763, 1774).
Our collection of parish baptism, marriage and burial registers has been digitised by both Ancestry and Find My Past. Copies of digitised records can be viewed online on Ancestry or Find My Past, as part of larger UK-wide parish registers datasets. You can find out more about these record sets, and how to find our registers, here: https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/are-you-looking-for-parish-registers.

Created by S. A. Shearn, 03.03.16.

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Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 'The register of the parish of Settrington. 1559-1812.' Transcribed and edited by Francis Collins (Leeds, 1910).

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