Ormesby, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  North Riding  Ormesby



Parish History
Ormesby St Cuthbert is an Ancient parish in Cleveland in the North riding of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Upsall near Guisbrough, Upsil, Cargo Fleet, Cleveland Port, Upsall, Morton near Stokesley, Normanby, Normanby near Guisbrough, and Morton.

ORMESBY (St. Cuthbert),a parish, in the union of Guisborough, partly in the E., and partly in the W., division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York, 7 miles (E. by S.) from Stockton; containing, with the chapelry of Eston, and the townships of Morton, Normanby, and Upsall, 851 inhabitants, of whom 383 are in Ormesby township.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 479-483. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51194 Date accessed: 27 April 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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Poor Law Unions
Guisborough Poor Law Union, Yorkshire Middlesbrough Poor Law Union, Yorkshire from 1876

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

Web sites
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