Turnhill, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes, S-Y  North Riding  Turnhill

Parish History
Turnhill is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

TURNHILL, an extra-parochial place, adjoining the parish of Middleton, in the union and lythe of Pickering, N. riding of York; containing 12 inhabitants.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Turnhill like this:

TURNHILL, an extra-parochial tract in Pickering district, N. R. Yorkshire; near Pickering. Pop., 8. House, 1

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
Turnhill is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Poor Law Unions
Pickering 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

Web sites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.