I am trying to find where the Cowling Parish Registers are held. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anita. ___________________________________________________________ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html

From: Anita Cairns <neta1uk@yahoo.co.uk> Which COWLING do you mean? There are two places in Yorkshire of the name, one to the south of Skipton and the other in the North Riding near Bedale. Neither were originally parishes in their own right. For the Cowling near Skipton, the National Index of Parish Registers for the West Riding refers me to Kildwick. This shows that Holy Trinity, Cowling, only became a separate parish in 1844 and the church was erected 1845. The registers are apparently still with the incumbent. It depends what date you are after, but I imagine before that date people from Cowling would have gone to Kildwick St Andrew, the original registers of which are now at the North Yorks CRO at Northallerton, with BTs at the Borthwick Institute in York. The other Cowling is part of the township of Burrill with Cowling, a township of the parish of Bedale, and only had a mission church erected in 1856. The Bedale St Gregory registers are also at Northallerton and the BTs are at the West Yorkshire Archives at Leeds for some reason. I suggest you go to the Genuki pages on Yorkshire for more information. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE