Introduction to the transcribed Excel files for the Great Ayton Parish Church Records
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
Congregational Baptisms 1673 - 1836
Burials
Burials in New Cemetery 1882 - 1911
Marriages
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