Skelton cum Newby, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Skelton cum Newby, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SKELTON, or, Skelton cum Newby, or Skelton on Ure [River], a chapelry, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, West Riding of York, 4 miles (southeast by east) from Ripon. The chapelry is seated on the river Ure, about two miles and a half west-northwest of Boroughbridge. The chapel was erected [and chapel registers commence] in 1811.

Skelton cum Newby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1749 from chapelry in Ripon Ancient Parish; refounded in 1815 from Skelton Ecclesiastical Parish. Wesleyan Methodist is the only identified non-Church of England denomination in Skelton cum Newby. Other places in the parish include: Newby with Mulwith and Newby.

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Skelton cum Newby parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Yorkshire Archive Service.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
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