Sneaton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes, S-Y  North Riding  Sneaton

Parish History
Sneaton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Sneaton Thorpe.

SNEATON, a parish, in the union of Whitby, liberty of Whitby-Strand, N. riding of York, 2¼ miles (S. by W.) from Whitby.

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.

Online Records
Online data content from parish registers of Sneaton exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

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

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist 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
Whitby 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