Elias Harlington (-) Elias Harlington married Hannah Hanson on 11 Mar 1782 in Owston, Yorkshire. Both participants were identified as residents of Owston. On the same page of the Church Register there was a Thomas Harlington, a farmer, who married Mary Atkinson. It seems probable that Thomas and Elias were related in some way. The parish church of All Saints is Grade I listed, dating back to 1180. Transcribed from information mainly from the early 1820s : "OWSTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract, (Owston Hall, the seat of Phillip Davis Cook, Esq.) 6 miles N. of Doncaster, 10 from Pontefract, 31 from York. Pop. 306. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, ~£7. 0s. 2½d. p.r. £100. Patron, Phillip Davis Cook, Esq." "CARCROFT, scattered farm-houses, in the township and parish of Owston, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles NW. of Doncaster." The name 'Owston' is of Old Scandinavian and Old English origin. It means 'East farmstead', being composed of the Old Scandinavian word austr ('east') and the Old English word tun ('farmstead'). In the Domesday Book, the village was recorded as Austhun.