Tunstall, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
TUNSTALL (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Patrington, Middle division of the wapentake of Holderness, East Riding of York, 5½ miles N from Patrington. This place is of considerable antiquity, a church existing here in 1115, when Stephen, Earl of Albemarle, gave the church and tithes of Tunstall to the abbey of St. Martin.

To find the names of the neighboring 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.

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

Poor Law Unions

 * Patrington Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

Probate records
Tunstall Parish comes under the probate court jurisdiction of Court of the Peculiar of the Succentor Canonicorum of York. These probate records are available at The Borthwick Institute for Archives. Here is their contact information:

Email: borthwick-institute@york.ac.uk

Postal address:

Borthwick Institute for Archives University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD UK 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[s] of additional court jurisdictions for the parish of Tunstall. The above court holds primary jurisdiction and should be searched, first. Scroll down in the article on "Yorkshire Probate Records" to the section "Court Jurisdictions by Parish" for the other courts.

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