Kirkby Wiske

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  North Riding  Kirkby Wiske

Parish History
Kirkby Wiske is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Maunby, Sowber Hill, Newsham with Breckenbrough, and Newby Wiske. Non-Church of England denominations identified in Kirkby Wiske include: Wesleyan Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

 Also listed as: 

KIRBY-WISK (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Thirsk, partly in the wapentake of Birdforth, and partly in that of Gilling-East, N. riding of York; containing 905 inhabitants, of whom 210 are in the township, 4¾ miles (W. by N.) from Thirsk. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 689-692. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51081 Date accessed: 04 November 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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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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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Web sites
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