Place:Bishopsoil, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

Bishopsoil was a civil parish transferred to the civil parish of Gilberdyke in 1935. There is no reference to it in either Wikipedia nor GENUKI. A Vision of Britain through Time does provide a list of facts with reference to this parish.

It was located in Howdenshire Wapentake, but no ecclesiastical parish is cited. From 1880 it was civil parish and part of the Howden Rural Sanitary District, the Howden Poor Law Union and the Howden Registration District (sub-district: Howden, then Wallingfen). The Howden Rural Sanitary District was replaced by the Howden Rural District in 1894.

It appears to have been made a civil parish by absorbing small parts (measured in houses, most under 10) of the parishes of Asselby, Barmby on the Marsh, Bellasize, Blacktoft, Cotness, Eastrington, Gilberdike, Knedlington, Laxton, Metham and Yokefleet.

In 1935 the parish was abolished and wholly transferred into Gilberdike. In the census of 1931 it had a population of 184.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Gilberdyke. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Eastrington provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• Howdenshire History provides histories of towns and villages in the area provided by a local family historian. The stories of some families who emigrated to Ontario, Canada, are included.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Bishopsoil.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.

• An inspection of the area around the town of Howden on the Ordnance Survey map of 1900 brings up a number places indicated by letters and the phrase "Det.". An index for the letters can be found on the right of the map. At this point Howden appears not to be one entity, but a group of separate parts. The same could be said for its townships. The reason for these separate blocks probably reflects the need to have a river frontage by various land owners over cenutries past. In 1935 many of the parishes were consolidated into fewer larger ones. Depression may have brought about many sales of large estates during the first third of the twentieth century. This, in turn, would have enabled the alteration in parish boundaries.