Melbecks (Low Row), Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Melbecks Holy Trinity at Low Row is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from Grinton, Yorkshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Barf End, Wintering Garths, Blaides, Feetham, Gunnerside, Kearton, Lodge Green, Long Row, Longrow, Low Row, Melbecks Moor, Poting, Poting and Winserings, Smarber, Winserings, and Barfend.

MELBECKS, a township, in the parish of Grinton, union of Richmond, wapentake of Gilling-West, N. riding of York, 14 miles (W. by S.) from Richmond. There are places of worship for Presbyterians 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.

Church Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Melbecks exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

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

Records are also available at the North Yorkshire County Record Office.

Poor Law Unions
Reeth 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