Redcar, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  North Riding of Yorkshire  Redcar

Parish History
Redcar St Peter is and Ecclesiastical parish in Cleveland in the north Riding of Yorkshire, created in 1830 from Marske in Cleveland Ancient Parish.

REDCAR, a chapelry, partly in the parish of Upleatham, but chiefly in that of Marsk, union of Guisborough, E. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York, 7 miles (N.) from Guisborough. There are places of worship for Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans.

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

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Redcar and comprising the whole ancient parish of Upleatham to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Upleatham 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.

Poor Law Unions
Guisborough 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