Hackness, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes A-I  North Riding of Yorkshire  Hackness

Guide to Hackness, Yorkshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HACKNESS (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Scarborough, liberty of Whitby-Strand, N. riding of York; containing, with the townships of Broxa, and Suffield with Everley, and the chapelry of HarwoodDale with Silpho, 714 inhabitants, of whom 182 are in the township of Hackness, 6 miles (W. by N.) from Scarborough.

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 Hackness exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

List of Chapelry's in this Parish

 * Harwood Dale

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Warrington-Padgate Christ Church and comprising the whole ancient parish of Hackness to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the HACKNESS PARISH  page.

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.

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