Sneaton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Sneaton



Parish History
Sneaton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Sneaton Thorpe.

SNEATON, a parish, in the union of Whitby, liberty of Whitby-Strand, N. riding of York, 2¼ miles (S. by W.) from Whitby; containing 238 inhabitants. The parish is bounded by the river Esk, and the scenery in the neighbourhood presents a succession of hills and dales. Very excellent flagstone is quarried. The Whitby and Pickering railway passes at the foot of the village.The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at£13. 12. 6., and has a net income of £170, arising from corn-rents assigned in commutation of tithes in 1802;it is at present in the gift of the family of Wilson, to whom, as an equivalent for building the church, two presentations were given by the crown. The church,replacing an old edifice which had been for some time in a dilapidated state, was erected in 1825, at a cost of £720, by the late James Wilson, Esq.; it is a handsome structure in the decorated English style, with a low tower surmounted by a small spire, and the eastern end and the south porch are ornamented with buttresses terminating in richly-crocketed finials, A free school was built by the late Mr. Wilson, who left £10 per annum for a master, to which the parish adds £5.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 126-129. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51285 Date accessed: 06 May 2011.

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
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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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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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