Parish records of Monk Fryston

Includes register of christenings, 1538-1894, 1894-2003; register of marriages, 1538-1943, 1943-1993, 1993-1999, 1999-2002; register of burials, 1538-1756, 1758-1924 (note this register uses the Dade registration scheme for the years 1783-1812, ages only), 1924-1987; register of banns, 1863-1938; churchwardens’ records, including accounts, c.1668-1774, accounts and rates for Burton Salmon, 1827-1921, and pew list, 1836; records of incumbents, including notes on incumbents, 1809-1821, and statistical returns, 1923-1931; school managers’ minute book, 1900-1923; Vestry/Parochial Church Council records, including minutes of meetings, 1938-1956.

The present church at Monk Fryston dates largely to the thirteenth century, although the lower portion of the church tower is Anglo-Saxon in origin. It was appropriated to the Prebend of Wistow before 1222 and remained subject to the prebend’s peculiar jurisdiction until the nineteenth century. The living was augmented in 1815 by parliamentary grant.
The parish church is dedicated to St Wilfrid of Ripon, although surviving wills from the sixteenth century suggest it was originally dedicated to St Mary. It was restored between 1889 and 1891 by architects J. Hall Thorp & Son of Leeds, largely at the expense of the Hemsworth family of Monk Fryston Hall, who also donated the church organ. A church hall was built by George Pace and Ronald Sims and opened in 1970.
The parish includes Burton Salmon and Hillam. In 1985 Monk Fryston was merged with South Milford parish and today it is part of the benefice of Monk Fryston and South Milford.

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The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1979. Further additions were made to the archive in 1984, 1985 and 2003.

The present church at Monk Fryston dates largely to the thirteenth century, although the lower portion of the church tower is Anglo-Saxon in origin. It was appropriated to the Prebend of Wistow before 1222 and remained subject to the prebend’s peculiar jurisdiction until the nineteenth century. The living was augmented in 1815 by parliamentary grant.
The parish church is dedicated to St Wilfrid of Ripon, although surviving wills from the sixteenth century suggest it was originally dedicated to St Mary. It was restored between 1889 and 1891 by architects J. Hall Thorp & Son of Leeds, largely at the expense of the Hemsworth family of Monk Fryston Hall, who also donated the church organ. A church hall was built by George Pace and Ronald Sims and opened in 1970.
The parish includes Burton Salmon and Hillam. In 1985 Monk Fryston was merged with South Milford parish and today it is part of the benefice of Monk Fryston and South Milford.

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 2003.

Registers of christenings, marriages, burials, 1538-1885, and banns, 1863-1900, are also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 739, 1762).
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, 25.02.16.
Revised by C. Flockton, 11.11.22.

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Additional parish records relating to Monk Fryston, including parish restoration plans and drawings, correspondence, a printed history and other papers can be found in Miscellaneous Documents 227.

Parish Register Society, 'The registers of Monk Fryston in the West Riding of Yorkshire: 1538-1678.' Transcribed and edited by John David Hemsworth (London, 1896).

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