Tunstall near Catterick, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Tunstall (near Catterick), Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
TUNSTALL, a chapelry in Catterick parish, North Yorkshire; 3 miles South of Catterick Bridge railway station. The church was built in 1847. There is a Wesleyan chapel and a...school."

The ancient parish (AP) of Catterick was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1568.

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
Tunstall (near Patrington) is located under the Civil Registration District of Patrington. 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. Two popular sites are:

1) FreeBMD

2) GRO (General Register Office)

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Tunstall does not exist at the present time:

For a full list of all those parishes and chapels surrounding Tunstall Chapelry and comprising the whole ancient parish of Catterick to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Catterick page. The parish (chapelry) registers for Tunstall near Catterick are found at the County Record Office. The Bishop's transcripts are usually located at the Borthwick Institute for Archives (see Wiki page for this archive).

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the FamilySearch Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Poor Law Unions
Richmond Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

Probate records
Tunstall Chapelry (a chapel of ease in Catterick Parish) is located in the probate court jurisdiction called Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries - Catterick. These probate records are located at the West Yorkshire Record Office. Here's their contact information:

Email: leeds@wyjs.org.uk

Telephone:  +44 (0)113 3939788

Postal Address:

West Yorkshire Archive Service

West Yorkshire Joint Services

Nepshaw Lane South

Morley

Leeds, LS27 7JQ

United Kingdom

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 additional courts having primary jurisdiction over Tunstall and Catterick. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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