Marton, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Marton in Cleveland St Cuthbert is an Ancient Parish Other places in the parish include: Langlands, Tolesby, and Newham. This parish should not be confused with Marton cum Grafton Marton cum Moxby, Yorkshire MARTON (St. Cuthbert), a parish, in the union of Stokesley, W. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Stockton-on-Tees; containing 410 inhabitants. The parish is in the district of Cleveland. There are places of worship for Wesleyans.

ALSO

MARTON, a township, in the parish of Swine, union of Skirlaugh, Middle division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. riding of York, 9½ miles (N. E. byN.) from Hull; containing 119 inhabitants. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

ALSO

MARTON, a township, in the parish of Sinnington, union and lythe of Pickering,N. riding of York, 4¾ miles (W. by S.) from Pickering; containing 240 inhabitants. ALSO

MARTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 5½ miles (W. by S.) from Skipton; containing 381 inhabitants.

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
Marton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Yorkshire Archive Service.

Poor Law Unions
Stokesley 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