Rillington, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  East Riding  Rillington

Parish History
Rillington St Andrew is an ancient parish (AP) Church of England records began in 1638, in the village and civil parish of Rillington Rillington Wikipedia.

The church of St Andrew has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

The Congregational Bethesda Chapel which hasa datestone of 1818 has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

RILLINGTON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Malton, wapentake of Buckrose, E. riding of York; containing, with the chapelry of Scampston,1051 inhabitants, of whom 800 are in Rillington township, 5 miles (E. N. E.) from Malton. The parish is bounded on the north by the navigable river Derwent, and comprises by admeasurement 4842 acres, of which 2460 are in the township of Rillington; of the latter,more than three-fourths are arable, and the rest pasture.The soil is generally light. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8. 14. 9½., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £105; impropriator, Dr. Simpson. The church, rebuilt in 1825,is a neat structure in the later English style, with asquare embattled tower, and comprises 250 sittings. At the village of Scampston is a chapel. There are placesof worship for Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 668-671. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51238 Date accessed: 07 October 2011.

Civil Registration
Records from the Ryedale registration district held at the North Yorkshire Registration Service are included in the online index available at Yorkshire BMD for post 1837 events; view the coverage table to check progress on the availability of index search.

Marriages include


 * Church of England marriages.
 * Civil Marriages at register offices, or non-conformist churches where a registrar was required to be present at the ceremony.
 * Authorised Person marriages. These cover the non-conformist places of worship which applied to keep their own registers as a result of the Marriage Act, 1898 (bringing them into line with Jewish and Quaker marriages which had this status since 1837). In such cases an 'Authorised Person' (usually the minister or priest) recorded the ceremony instead of the registrar. Earlier weddings in these places would be included with civil marriage registers.

A secondary index of 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 however this secondary index may omit the event and may not contain the detail of the Yorkshire BMD index

Church records
To find the names of the neighbouring 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.

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Census records
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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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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