Parish Registers

Team members who assisted with the transcription of Parish Registers were: Jean Allinson, David Blake, Yvonne Bentley, Alan Bunn, Jennifer Duke, Diane Harbron, Irene MacDonald, June Marsden, Hazel O'Sullivan, Dave and Barbara Taylor, Peter Watson and Ann Whittaker.

The Great Ayton Parish records for the baptismals, burials and marriages have been transcribed onto Excel spreadsheets by a team who are part of the Ayton’s Story project. All the team live in the village and many have always lived in the village and thus have local knowledge of family names, location names and local places of birth. Thus with this knowledge we have endeavoured to accurately transcribe the original records written by the Ayton Curates throughout the ages. Data from 1812 onwards were transcribed from microfilms at the North Records Office, Northallerton. At the time of publication of these data we have stopped at 1901 to conform with the Census cut-off – when the 1911 Census is issued for this area we will include the 1901 to 1911 data in our datasets. The Parish Records prior to 1812 were issued as an indexed transcribed booklet by The Yorkshire Parish Register Society Vol. XC and issued in 1930. We have copied these records into Excel spreadsheets and because the early records have missing entries and part entries we decided to start our transcribed data from 1710. The amount of information recorded in the baptismal, burial and marriage Parish Records increases with time and for this reason it was not convenient to include all the data within individual sets within one Excel spreadsheet. Thus to include all the 1710 to 1901 data for baptismal has required two Excel sheets covering years 1676 to 1812 and 1813 to 1901. In September 2009 when these were published on the website the burials records ranged from 1749 to 1911 and marriage records 1813 to 1901. Earlier records for burials and marriages are actively being processed and will be included on this website when completed.

The individual burial and baptismal records are generally included in one row on an Excel spreadsheet. However, for marriage records we have created each record as a two-row record with the upper and lower rows recording the bridegroom and brides details and the lst columns of each row records the officiating minister and witnesses names. Where any person involved in the ceremony is unable to write their name and uses their mark, usually an X, we have indicated this is our spreadsheet by placing a letter X within the typed name e.g. if William Pearson made his mark our record would be William X in the ‘forenames’column.

Baptisms in PDF format Baptisms in Excel format for sorting
Ayton Baptisms 1676-1812 Ayton Baptisms 1676-1812
Ayton Baptisms 1813-1901 Ayton Baptisms 1813-1901
Burials in PDF format Burials in Excel for sorting
Ayton Burials 1749-1812 Ayton Burials 1749-1812
Ayton Burials 1813-1882 Ayton Burials 1813-1882
Ayton Burials in New Cemetery 1882-1911 Ayton Burials in New Cemetery 1882-1911
Marriages in PDF format Marriages in Excel for sorting
Ayton Marriages 1710-1812 Ayton Marriages 1710-1812
Ayton Marriages 1813-1836 Ayton Marriages 1813-1836
Ayton Marriages 1837-Feb 1900 Ayton Marriages 1837-Feb 1900

The project which transcribed the Parish records recorded Aytonians who were present in the village when the particular event was recorded i.e. a marriage, a burial etc. In trying to 'track' Aytonians we realised that villagers who had moved locally or who married outside of the village or were recorded separately from the Anglican church (e.g. The Quakers) their records of an event would not included within the records we have generated. In order to redress this we have i) searched the records of Stokesley and a few other local parishes and ii) included some Ayton Quaker records. These data generated are included in this section on the website.

Baptisms in PDF format Baptisms in Excel format for sorting
Congregational Ayton Baptisms 1763-1836 Congregational Ayton Baptisms 1763-1836
Congregational Ayton Baptisms 1763-1836 by Family Congregational Ayton Baptisms 1763 - 1836 by Family
Stokesley Baptisms 1603-1910 Stokesley Baptisms 1603-1910
Stokesley Catholic Baptisms 1889-1931 Stokesley Catholic Baptisms 1889-1931
Quaker Birth Notes 1839-1950 Quaker Birth Notes 1839-1950
Burials in PDF format Burials in Excel for sorting
Stokesley Burials 1623-1910 Stokesley Burials 1623-1910
Quaker Burial Notes 1843-1908 Quaker Burial Notes 1843-1908
Marriages in PDF format Marriages in Excel for sorting
Stokesley Marriages 1695-1910 Stokesley Marriages 1695-1910
Quaker Marriages 1751-1915 Quaker Marriages 1751-1915

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