Derived and extended from Cumbria County History Trust VCH
Cumbria Volunteers’ handbook
Checklist of Important History Sources for North Craven
This list is at first sight rather forbidding but in practice many of the sources will not provide any useful information about parish or relevant local history. Many web sites are quickly searchable for relevant content and can be noted or dismissed with little effort. In perhaps most cases where useful documents are catalogued one must unfortunately then have to visit a Record Office or library (in Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford, York, Northallerton, Kendal or Preston) or The National Archives (TNA) in London to see items or microfilms and make a copy of some sort – a photocopy or digital image – which usually requires permission and payment. However it is travel costs which are the major deterrent. Careful planning is needed coupled with a list of items to find and view. Pre-ordering of documents on-line has sometimes to be considered.
1. Preliminary finding aids and major sources
Search by the name of the parish/township you are studying
(Note, though, that it will sometimes also be necessary to search under the name of
settlements within the parish/township, where the name of a significant settlement is not
the same as that of the administrative unit).
TNA Catalogue |
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk Use search term a2a to find documents in other locations |
North Yorkshire County Record Office (catalogue) |
Northallerton, archives.northyorks.gov.uk/dserve/ |
West Yorkshire Archive Service (catalogue) |
Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford, Calderdale www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/ |
Lancashire Record Office catalogue LANCAT |
www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives.aspx
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Kendal Archive Centre |
www.cumbria.gov.uk |
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society (catalogue) |
at Leeds University, and https://www.yas.org.uk |
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society, Camden Society, Surtees Society |
Journals in major libraries
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Manorial Documents Register |
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mdr/ |
Historic Environment Records |
The Heritage Gateway website (http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/ ) provides searchable access to (inter alia) the Historic Environment Record and the National Monuments Record (which can also be searched by place at http://www.pastscape.org.uk/mapsearch.aspx ) |
British History Online |
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ |
British Library |
www.bl.uk |
Bradfer-Lawrence collection
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YAS catalogue
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Raistrick collection
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Skipton Library
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Apprentice records
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Guildhall Library, London https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to.../guildhall-library/.
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Society of Genealogists (catalogue)
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www.soc.org.uk (fee to visit)
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North Craven Heritage Trust
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www. NorthCravenHeritage.org.uk |
Village websites |
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2. Maps, Plans and Surveys
Clifford papers 15th and 16thC rentals |
www.NorthCravenHeritage.org.uk, YAHS
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Maps |
TNA, WYAS, Borthwick, LRO, NYCRO, British Library |
3. Contemporary Descriptions
Leland |
The Itinerary of John Leland, ed. L. Toulmin Smith (London, 1964) |
Camden |
William Camden, Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of... England, Scotland and Ireland, trans. P. Holland (London, 1610). |
Celia Fiennes |
C. Morris (ed.), The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes 1685-c.1712 (1982) |
Daniel Defoe |
Daniel Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-6; Penguin edition, 1971) |
Housman |
John Housman Topographical description of Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire and part of the West Riding of Yorkshire (Carlisle, 1800), |
Fisher |
An American Quaker in the British Isles: the travel journals of Jabez Maude Fisher, 1775-1779, ed. K. Morgan (British Academy, 1992) (2001) |
Lysons, Magna Britannia |
British History Online |
Trade Directories 1829 to mid 20thC |
Many 19th-century directories are available at www.historicaldirectories.org |
4. Administrative Records
4.1 Central government
TNA Calendars |
The indexes to the following calendars should be |
(check availability at |
searched: |
Leeds and Lancaster Universities) |
Rotuli Chartarum 1199-1216 [available on Google |
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Books] |
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Calendar of Charter Rolls, 6 vols |
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Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem [26 vols |
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covering 1236-1447] TNA WARD |
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Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VII, 3 |
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vols |
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Calendar of Miscellaneous Inquisitions [8 vols, |
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covering 1219-1485] |
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Calendar of Patent Rolls searchable online for |
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period 1216-1452: |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/˜acadtech/patentrolls/ |
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Calendar of Fine Rolls searchable online for reign of |
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Henry III: www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/ |
Muster Rolls |
TNA E36 |
Protestation |
Parliamentary Archives, discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk › Discovery |
returns |
Yorkshire HL/PO/JO/10/ |
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www.parliament.uk/business/publications/ parliamentary.../protestations/ |
Statutes of the Realm
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TNA C29
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Manorial sales |
TNA C54, C66
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Religious Census, |
TNA HO129. Available online at: |
1851 |
http:/ /www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ documentsonline/digital-microfilm.asp |
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Sales of dissolved abbeys, Augmentation Office
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TNA E318
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Taxation |
Search the TNA E179 database for taxation records |
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which include lay Subsidies, Poll Tax, Ship Tax, Wool Tax, |
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Hearth Tax: |
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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179 |
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R.Hoyle, Tudor Taxation Records Guide
R.W.Hoyle, The regional distribution of wealth in England as indicated in the 1524/5 lay subsidy returns, List and Index Society special series no.28, 2 vols. 1998
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C. C. Fenwick (ed.), The Poll Taxes of 1377 1379 and 1381; part 2 Lincolnshire-Westmorland (British Academy, 2001) |
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The Lay Subsidy of 1334. Edited by Robin E. Glasscock. Records of Social and Economic History. New Series, Vol. II. London: published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1975.
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Yorkshire
Poll Tax (David Postles, Leicester
University)
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Yorkshire:
Some of the Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379
(Peter Nelson/Colin Hinson, GENUKI) http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/sources/tax.shtml
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Land Tax 1692-1963 |
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/the-land-tax-1692-1963.pdf |
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Kirkby's Inquest 1316 and The Nomina Villarum for Yorkshire
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Surtees Soc., xlix, 1867 |
4.2 Local government
Parish |
www.cravendc.gov.uk/ |
administration |
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West Riding Quarter |
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Sessions |
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Wakefield Registry of Deeds, 1704 onwards
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extracts www.NorthCravenHeritage.org.uk,
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Common Land |
Summary data available on searchable online |
Registers |
database at: http://common-land.com/ |
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4.3 Religious admistration
Episcopal Acta, Carlisle |
English Episcopal Acta 30: Carlisle 1133-1292, ed. D. |
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M. Smith (Oxford, 2005). |
Papal taxation, 1291 |
Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae auctoritate |
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Papae Nicholas IV circa 1291, ed. T. Astle and J. Caley |
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(RC, 1802): www.hrionline.ac.u/taxatio |
Papal letters |
Calendar of entries in the papal registers relating to |
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Great Britain and Ireland: Papal Letters, ed. W H Bliss |
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and others, 14 vols. (HMSO, 1893-1960). Now fully |
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on-line at: www.british- |
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history.ac.uk/catalogue.aspx ?tvpe=3&gid= 150 |
Wills in the York Registry
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Indexed in YAS Record Series volumes in Skipton Library and elsewhere for period 1389-1688 (some on CD) YASRS vols. 6,11,14,19,2,24,26,28,32,49,60,68,89 YAS wills registered in London 1649-1660 YAS Consistory Court wills vols. 73, 93 YAS vol.89 Appendix 4 Vacancy Register
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Wills and Inventories
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Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, Lancaster Record Office TNA PROB11 www.NorthCravenHeritage.org.uk C. Howard, S. Gordon, Voices from the past:Inventories and wills from the parish of Ingleton, Ingleborough Archaeology Group.
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Cause papers (church punishments)
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Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
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Parish Registers 1558 onwards
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Skipton Library (YAS Record Series), Borthwick Institute, Record Offices
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Bishops' registers |
Medieval registers in print: |
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John Halton 1292-1324 ed. W N Thompson |
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(CVS vols 12, 13, 1913) |
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ed. R L Storey (CVS vols 79 and 81, 1993-5) |
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Gilbert Welton 1353-62 ed. R l Storey (CVS vol |
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88, 1999) |
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Thomas Appleby 1363-95 ed. R l Storey (CVS |
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vol 96, 2006) |
Visitation records |
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(Carlisle diocese) |
William Nicolson, Miscellany Accounts of the |
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Diocese of Carlisle: with the Terriers Delivered |
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to Me at My Primary Visitation (1877) |
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'The Diocesan Book of Walter Fletcher, |
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Chancellor of Carlisle Diocese, 1814-46' (TS |
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transcript available). |
Visitation records (Chester diocese) |
Lancs Archives, ARR/1S; Cheshire Record Office, EDA 6; EDV 7 |
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Valor Ecclesiasticus c.1530s
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Fasti Parochiales for church records
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YAS Record Series
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Metropolitan Visitations |
Borthwick Institute, York: Carlisle diocese1693/4; Chester diocese 1571-1694 |
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Nonconformist admin records |
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Quaker records
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Brotherton Library, Leeds University
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4.4 Landholding Records (see also Maps, Plans and Surveys, above)
Domesday Book |
http://domesdaymap.co.uk
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Book of Fees (or Testa de Nevill) |
The Book of Fees ed C. G. Crump and others, (3 vols, London, 1920-1931) |
Feet of fines |
F. H. M. Parker, 'A calendar of the Feet of Fines for Cumberland, from their commencement to the accession of Henry VII', CW2, 7 (19D7), pp. 215-61. |
Charters
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YAS Record Series, TNA JUST
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5. Other important printed sources
N. Pevsner, Yorkshire: The North Riding - Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England |
Victoria County History, North Riding www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol2 |
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The history and antiquities of the deanery of Craven, in the county of Yorkby Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759-1821 Published 1805 Online at https://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti00whit
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Alumni Oxoniensis 1500-1714, Alumni Cantabrigiensis to 1751 Graduati Cantabrigiensis 1659-1823 Register of Admissions to the Middle Temple 15thC to 1944 Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn 1521-1889 Students admitted to the Inner Temple 1547-1660
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J.W.Morkill, The Parish of Kirkby Malhamdale, Kirkby Malham PCC, 2005 |
D. M. Butler, The Quaker Meeting Houses of Britain, 2 vols (London, 1999) |
R.T. Spence, Lady Ann Clifford, Sutton Publ., 1997
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Brayshaw,T. and Robinson, R M, 1932. A history of the ancient parish of Giggleswick, Halton & Co., London
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Historical account of the Cistercian Abbey of Salley, in Craven, Yorkshire Ed. J. Harland, Pub. London J Russell Smith, Clitheroe Wm Whewell, 1853 (Skipton Library)
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The Fountains Abbey Lease Book YASRS vol. 140 1979/1980 Ed. D.J.H.Michelmore, 1981.
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R.W.Hoyle, Early Tudor Craven Subsidies and Assessments 1510-1547, YASRS vol. 145, 1985.
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A. H. Smith, The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, English Place-Name Society, Volume XXXVI, Part VII, Cambridge 1962
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D.J.H.Clifford, The diaries of Lady Anne Clifford, 1990, Publ. Alan Sutton Ltd |
W.A.Shuffrey, The Churches of the deanery of North Craven, 1914, publ. Whitehead and Son, Leeds
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P. J. and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (subscriptions, licenses, apprenticeships) 2nd Edition (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Project for Historical Bibliography, 1988). (British Library) |
6. Other online sources
Church of |
http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk |
England clergy |
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database |
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Commons |
Alphabetical list at |
Commissioners' |
http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/ |
adjudications |
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Digital library
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Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs |
http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/ |
Inquisitions Post Mortem |
http://blog.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk |
John Leland’s Itinerary |
John Leland’s Itinerary:travels in Tudor England, Sutton 1993 |
Medieval English Towns |
http://users.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html |
English Heritage |
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk |
Pastscape (English Heritage) |
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/default.aspx |
Survey of English Place Names |
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/epns/survey.aspx |
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A place-name search can yield a wealth of leads! |
Local knowledge |
Talking to people who have lived in the place under |
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study for some time can both provide essential |
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information about changes within living memory |
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and also uncover local archive sources which |
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remain in private hands. |
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