Sawley Genealogical Records
Sawley Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
A growing index of births registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
An index to 1,250,301 baptisms, linked to images of the original registers. These records will provide parents' names, residences, occupations and occasionally other details.
A collection of indexes and transcripts of birth and baptism records that cover over 250 million people. Includes digital images of many records.
An index to births registered at the central authority for England & Wales. The index provides the area where the birth was registered, mother's maiden name from September 1911 and a reference to order a birth certificate.
Sawley Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
An index to over 150,000 licences to marry applied for from the Diocese of York.
A growing index of marriages registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
An index to 585,995 marriages, linked to images of the original registers. These records will provide parents' names, residences, occupations, ages and other details.
A collection of indexes and transcripts of marriage records that cover over 160 million people. Includes digital images of many records.
Sawley Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
A growing index of deaths registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
An index to 968,658 burials, linked to images of the original registers. These records will provide age, residence and occasionally other details.
Transcripts of Anglican burial registers from over 100 churches in Yorkshire.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Sawley Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
A tax on the county's wealthier residents, ordered by wapentake or liberty and settlement.
The 1901 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
The 1891 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
Newspapers Covering Sawley
This fully searchable newspaper will provide a rich variety of information about the people and places of the Yorkshire district. Includes family announcements.
Britain's most popular provincial newspaper, covering local & national news, family announcements, government & local proceedings and more.
An illustrated, conservative newspaper with a national focus.
A regional newspaper including news from the Yorkshire area, family announcements, business notices, advertisements, legal & governmental proceedings and more.
A regional newspaper including news from the Yorkshire district, business notices, family announcements, legal & governmental proceedings, advertisements and more.
Sawley Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
Digital images, indexed by testor's name, of 28,716 wills, administrations, inventories and other probate documents. The records can shed light on an individual’s relations, possessions, land holdings, legal agreements and more. They cover various jurisdictions throughout the north of England.
An index to 263,822 wills, administrations and other probate documents proved by an ecclesiastical court in York. The index included the testor's name, residence, year of probate, type of document and reference to order copies of the referenced document(s.).
An index to 10,195 wills, administrations and other probate documents proved by an ecclesiastical court in York. The index included the testor's name, residence, occupation, will & probate year, language, type of document and reference to order copies of the referenced document(s.).
An index to wills, proved by the Derby Probate Registry. Index includes name, residence and year of probate. Contains entries for Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and other counties.
Sawley Immigration & Travel Records
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
A full index of passenger lists for vessels arriving in the UK linked to original images. Does not include lists from vessels sailing from European ports. Early entries can be brief, but later entries may include dates of births, occupations, home addresses and more. Useful for documenting immigration.
An index to and images of documents recording over 1.65 million passengers who arrived in Victoria, Australia, including passengers whose voyage was paid for by others.
Details on over 600,000 non-British citizens arriving in England. Often includes age and professions. Useful for discerning the origin of immigrants.
Details on thousands of 17th century British immigrants to the U.S., detailing their origins and nature of their immigration.
Sawley Military Records
An inventory of memorials commemorating those who served and died in military conflicts.
A chronicle of happenings in the counties of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire relating to the war in Europe. Contains much detail on ship building.
Lists of officers by rank, regiment and name.
Biographies of hundreds of men who served as officers in The Green Howards, an infant regiment in the King's Division. Details given include parentage, date of birth, military career and later professional career.
A general history of the militia preceded by an overview of Yorkshire's military history since the conquest.
Sawley Court & Legal Records
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
Transcriptions of pleas brought before a court. They largely concern land disputes.
Transcripts of 17,368 admission records, including name, gender, age, occupation, date of admission, cause of insanity, outcome of incarceration, date of leaving the institution and more.
Records of over 300,000 prisoners held by quarter sessions in England & Wales. Records may contain age, occupation, criminal history, offence and trial proceedings.
Over 175,000 records detailing prisoner's alleged offences and the outcome of their trial. Contains genealogical information.
Sawley Taxation Records
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A transcription of the Lincolnshire section of the Domesday Book, which records land ownership, use and value in the late 11th century; and similar survey completed in 1118.
A tax on the county's wealthier residents, ordered by wapentake or liberty and settlement.
Sawley Land & Property Records
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
An English translation of Yorkshire domesday records. This transcripts details the county's landowners in 1086.
Sawley Directories & Gazetteers
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive guide to the Yorkshire textile manufacturers. Arranged by towns, each entry gives the name of the mill and its owner(s), approximate number of spindles and looms, pay day, telegraphic address and telephone number.
A detailed directory of towns in the North East.
A directory listing phone with telephones in Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland.
Descriptions of settlements in Durham, Northumberland, and Yorkshire with lists of their leading private and commercial men.
Sawley Cemeteries
An index to close to 150,000 names listed on gravestones in Yorkshire.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Profiles of several hundred mausolea found in the British Isles.
Several thousand transcribed memorials remembering those connected with the nautical occupations.
Sawley Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Sawley Histories & Books
An English translation of Yorkshire domesday records. This transcripts details the county's landowners in 1086.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
A chronicle of happenings in the counties of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire relating to the war in Europe. Contains much detail on ship building.
Photographs and images of churches in North Yorkshire.
A chronological rendering of the county's history.
Sawley School & Education Records
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A transcript of a vast scholarly work briefly chronicling the heritage, education and careers of over 150,000 Cambridge University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A searchable database containing over 90,000 note-form biographies for students of Cambridge University.
Sawley Occupation & Business Records
Profiles of collieries in the north of England, with employment statistics, profiles of those who died in the mines and photographs.
Reports of mining distastes, includes lists of the deceased and photographs of monuments.
An introduction to smuggling on the east coast of England, with details of the act in various regions.
Abstract biographies of people connected with mining in the North of England.
A searchable book detailing the Yorkshire Rugby Football Union around the time of the Great War. Contains the names of many players and other persons associated with the sport.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Sawley
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Sawley Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Pedigrees compiled from a late 16th century heraldic visitation of Yorkshire. This work records the lineage, descendants and marriages of families who had a right to bear a coat of arms.
Pedigrees compiled from a early 17th century heraldic visitation of Yorkshire. This work records the lineage, descendants and marriages of families who had a right to bear a coat of arms.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Sawley Church Records
Digital images of baptism, marriage and burial registers from Church of England places of worship in Yorkshire.
Records recording teens and young adults commitment to the Christian faith.
Documentation for those baptised, married and buried at England. Parish registers can assist tracing a family back numerous generations.
The primary source of documentation for baptisms, marriages and burials before 1837, though extremely useful to the present. Their records can assist tracing a family back numerous generations.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
Biographical Directories Covering Sawley
A listing of the prominent residents of the county of Yorkshire, giving details on family, education, careers, hobbies, associations and more. Also includes details on the county's government officials, military officers, members of parliament, religious leaders and demographics.
Biographies of hundreds of men who served as officers in The Green Howards, an infant regiment in the King's Division. Details given include parentage, date of birth, military career and later professional career.
Abstract biographies of people connected with mining in the North of England.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Sawley Maps
Digital images of maps covering the county.
A number of maps of northern England with the locations of collieries plotted.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Maps showing settlements, features and some buildings in mainland Britain.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Sawley Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Civil & Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Historical Description
Sallay, or Sawley, where William Percy in 1146, built a Cistercian Abbey, valued at the dissolution at 147l. per annum. The site and demenses of this house, together with all other manors, messuages, &c. thereto belonging, were granted by King Henry VIII. in the 13th year of his reign to Sir Arthur D’Arcy, knight, to be held in capite by knight’s service. The manor and demesnes of Sallay belong at present to the Right Honourable Lord Grantham. "Enough is still left of the church of Sallay, to shew that it has been a plain cross, without columns, side-aisles, or chapels, and extremely resembling the chapel of Jesus College, in Cambridge. Great part of the nave and transept are standing; the choir, chapter-house, &c. are distinctly traceable by their foundations. The gateway, a mean building, now converted into a cottage, is entire. Part of a richly ornamented tabernacle, wrought in it, has the common inscription: S c'ta Baria ora pr 'nobis. "The close wall, including, perhaps, the richest feeding pasture in this rich valley, is still distinguishable on some places of its original height; and wrought into the walls of the adjoining houses, are several large and well cut shields, exhibiting the arms of Percy and Lacy Tempest, Lacy Hamerton, and others."The burial place of the Percies was probably the chapter-house, where neither stone nor brass is now left to tell where they lie; and nothing protects their remains, but the rubbish, which an undistinguishing Reformation has heaped on their heads." At Bolton-Hall, near Sawley Abbey, an ancient mansion, formerly belonging to the Pudsey family, are preserved the spoon, boots, and gloves of Henry VI. left by that monarch at Bolton, either from haste and trepidation, or as tokens of regard for the family.
The boots are of fine brown Spanish leather, lined with deer’s skin, tanned with the hair on, and about the ankles is a kind of wadding, under the lining, to keep out the wet. They have been fastened by buttons, from the ankle to the knee; the feet are remarkably small (little more than eight inches long), the toes round, and the soles where they join to the heel, contracted to less than an inch diameter.
The gloves are of the same materials, and have the same lining; they reach up, like women’s gloves, to the elbow; but have been occasionally turned down with the deer’s-skin outward. The hands are exactly proportioned to the feet, and not larger than those of a middle-sized woman.
SAWLEY (near Ripon) is a township, village and ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1863 from the parish of Ripon, 5 ½ miles south-west from Ripon, in the Northern division of the Riding, parish, liberty, union, county court district and rural deanery of Ripon, archdeaconry of Richmond and Ripon diocese. The church of St. Michael and All Angels is a very handsome new stone building, erected at a cost of over £2,000, with belfry and 2 bells. The register dates from the year 1836. The living is a rectory, yearly value £280 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Ripon and held by the Rev. William Henry Patchett B.A. of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. The endowment is from land at Farnham, near Knaresbro’ and Hutton Cranswick in the East Riding, and Helperby in the North Riding, and glebe at Sawley, and funds in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. There are charities of about £11 10s. yearly value. Sawley Hall, the seat of James Exshall esq. is a fine old mansion, standing on an eminence and commands extensive views of the surrounding country; the grounds are exquisitely laid out with flower gardens and adjoining shrubberies, with a well-wooded park of about 137 acres. Harry W. Wormald esq. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clayey; subsoil, gritstone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 3,284 acres, rateable value, £3,475; the population in 1871 was 341. The area of the ecclesiastical parish is 4,782 acres; the population in 1871 was 391.
The Endowed school (mixed) has an income of £11 per annum; Miss Birkhill, certificated mistress.
Most Common Surnames in Sawley
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Ripon Liberty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watson | 21 | 1:18 | 0.20% | 18 |
| 2 | Tomlinson | 13 | 1:29 | 0.51% | 170 |
| 2 | Fryer | 13 | 1:29 | 1.59% | 596 |
| 4 | Richmond | 11 | 1:34 | 0.93% | 431 |
| 4 | Bowes | 11 | 1:34 | 1.17% | 527 |
| 6 | Clark | 10 | 1:37 | 0.13% | 40 |
| 6 | Barker | 10 | 1:37 | 0.10% | 19 |
| 6 | Hebden | 10 | 1:37 | 1.49% | 727 |
| 9 | Lumley | 9 | 1:41 | 1.60% | 875 |
| 9 | Outhwaite | 9 | 1:41 | 2.17% | 1,139 |
| 9 | Cundall | 9 | 1:41 | 2.84% | 1,440 |
| 9 | Kirkley | 9 | 1:41 | 14.06% | 4,379 |
| 9 | Tebb | 9 | 1:41 | 7.38% | 2,944 |
| 14 | Waddington | 8 | 1:47 | 0.35% | 201 |
| 14 | Leeming | 8 | 1:47 | 1.23% | 752 |
| 14 | Allanson | 8 | 1:47 | 3.20% | 1,739 |
| 17 | Hall | 7 | 1:53 | 0.06% | 17 |
| 17 | Stevenson | 7 | 1:53 | 0.51% | 365 |
| 17 | Pullen | 7 | 1:53 | 3.89% | 2,237 |
| 17 | Lonsdale | 7 | 1:53 | 1.06% | 740 |
| 17 | Hannam | 7 | 1:53 | 2.99% | 1,836 |
| 17 | Corps | 7 | 1:53 | 14.89% | 5,342 |
| 17 | Thackwray | 7 | 1:53 | 3.91% | 2,245 |
| 24 | Chapman | 6 | 1:62 | 0.13% | 74 |
| 24 | Haxby | 6 | 1:62 | 2.62% | 1,874 |
| 26 | Robinson | 5 | 1:74 | 0.02% | 4 |
| 26 | Lofthouse | 5 | 1:74 | 0.38% | 372 |
| 26 | Kipling | 5 | 1:74 | 1.82% | 1,617 |
| 26 | Addyman | 5 | 1:74 | 2.98% | 2,332 |
| 26 | Exshaw | 5 | 1:74 | 100.00% | 24,127 |
| 31 | Harrison | 4 | 1:93 | 0.03% | 10 |
| 31 | Bell | 4 | 1:93 | 0.06% | 49 |
| 31 | Gill | 4 | 1:93 | 0.06% | 54 |
| 31 | Swales | 4 | 1:93 | 0.31% | 382 |
| 31 | Broadley | 4 | 1:93 | 0.39% | 481 |
| 31 | Beckwith | 4 | 1:93 | 0.67% | 828 |
| 31 | Cottingham | 4 | 1:93 | 3.54% | 3,059 |
| 31 | Bickerdike | 4 | 1:93 | 0.88% | 1,063 |
| 31 | Parnaby | 4 | 1:93 | 2.19% | 2,203 |
| 40 | Wade | 3 | 1:124 | 0.10% | 137 |
| 40 | Ashby | 3 | 1:124 | 0.93% | 1,423 |
| 40 | Ibbotson | 3 | 1:124 | 0.20% | 333 |
| 40 | Tinsley | 3 | 1:124 | 1.48% | 2,050 |
| 40 | Skirrow | 3 | 1:124 | 0.87% | 1,333 |
| 40 | Hallowell | 3 | 1:124 | 6.67% | 5,518 |
| 46 | Brown | 2 | 1:186 | 0.01% | 7 |
| 46 | Webster | 2 | 1:186 | 0.03% | 55 |
| 46 | Buck | 2 | 1:186 | 0.27% | 662 |
| 46 | Horner | 2 | 1:186 | 0.08% | 176 |
| 46 | Boddy | 2 | 1:186 | 0.36% | 885 |
| 46 | Judson | 2 | 1:186 | 0.34% | 846 |
| 46 | Patchett | 2 | 1:186 | 0.31% | 748 |
| 46 | Blacklock | 2 | 1:186 | 4.88% | 5,875 |
| 46 | Emsley | 2 | 1:186 | 0.29% | 710 |
| 46 | Carling | 2 | 1:186 | 0.64% | 1,455 |
| 46 | Ingleby | 2 | 1:186 | 0.49% | 1,164 |
| 46 | Busfield | 2 | 1:186 | 0.41% | 990 |
| 58 | Turner | 1 | 1:372 | 0.01% | 20 |
| 58 | King | 1 | 1:372 | 0.03% | 106 |
| 58 | Young | 1 | 1:372 | 0.03% | 125 |
| 58 | Dunn | 1 | 1:372 | 0.04% | 204 |
| 58 | Freeman | 1 | 1:372 | 0.08% | 427 |
| 58 | Hardy | 1 | 1:372 | 0.03% | 129 |
| 58 | Curtis | 1 | 1:372 | 0.09% | 465 |
| 58 | Schofield | 1 | 1:372 | 0.02% | 57 |
| 58 | Benson | 1 | 1:372 | 0.05% | 244 |
| 58 | Metcalf | 1 | 1:372 | 0.05% | 246 |
| 58 | Ainsworth | 1 | 1:372 | 0.18% | 873 |
| 58 | Bellamy | 1 | 1:372 | 0.16% | 787 |
| 58 | Percival | 1 | 1:372 | 0.34% | 1,549 |
| 58 | Rodger | 1 | 1:372 | 0.37% | 1,634 |
| 58 | Varley | 1 | 1:372 | 0.05% | 223 |
| 58 | Farrar | 1 | 1:372 | 0.04% | 155 |
| 58 | Layton | 1 | 1:372 | 0.43% | 1,861 |
| 58 | Newbold | 1 | 1:372 | 0.43% | 1,866 |
| 58 | Hogarth | 1 | 1:372 | 0.58% | 2,293 |
| 58 | Brotherton | 1 | 1:372 | 0.40% | 1,753 |
| 58 | Scaife | 1 | 1:372 | 0.12% | 605 |
| 58 | Howley | 1 | 1:372 | 0.65% | 2,478 |
| 58 | Galvin | 1 | 1:372 | 0.90% | 3,100 |
| 58 | Umpleby | 1 | 1:372 | 0.22% | 1,058 |
| 58 | Layfield | 1 | 1:372 | 0.61% | 2,379 |
| 58 | Stoney | 1 | 1:372 | 0.44% | 1,886 |
| 58 | Moth | 1 | 1:372 | 100.00% | 40,917 |
| 58 | Ascough | 1 | 1:372 | 0.47% | 1,971 |
| 58 | Armatage | 1 | 1:372 | 0.95% | 3,218 |
| 58 | Bendelow | 1 | 1:372 | 0.85% | 3,012 |
| 58 | Hazeltine | 1 | 1:372 | 7.69% | 12,159 |
| 58 | Whitwham | 1 | 1:372 | 1.41% | 4,108 |
| 58 | Adson | 1 | 1:372 | 11.11% | 15,484 |
| 58 | Aungiers | 1 | 1:372 | 6.25% | 10,667 |
| 58 | Jaquier | 1 | 1:372 | 100.00% | 40,917 |
| 58 | Plas | 1 | 1:372 | 100.00% | 40,917 |