Newton upon Ouse, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Guide to Newton upon Ouse, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Newton upon Ouse All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Benningborough, Benningbrough, Linton upon Ouse, Linton on Ouse, and Bennington.

The church of All Saints has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

The village and civil parish of Linton-on-Ouse is in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire about 7 miles north-west of York.

See Newton-on-Ouse Wikipedia Beningbrough Wikipedia

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Newton upon Ouse like this:

NEWTON-UPON-OUSE, a parish, in the union of Easingwold, wapentake of Bulmer, N. riding of York, 8½ miles (N. W.) from York.

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.

Beningbrough Records from York Registration District held at York 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

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of NEWTON UPON OUSE 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.

Poor Law Unions
Easingwold 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