Hinderwell with Roxby, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Hinderwell with Roxby, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Hinderwell; St Hilda with Roxby chapelry is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Hinderwell St Nicholas, Staithes, Runswick, and Roxby.

HINDERWELL (St. Hilda), a parish, in the union of Whitby, E. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh,N. riding of York, 10 miles (N. W. by W.) from Whitby;including the chapelry of Roxby, and containing 1970inhabitants, of whom 1771 are in the township of Hinderwell. There are places of worship in the village of Staithes for Calvinists, Wesleyan Methodists, and Ranters.



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.

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Hinderwell exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

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.

This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813.

Poor Law Unions
Whitby Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

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