Stainton in Cleveland, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes, S-Y North Riding

Parish History
Stainton in Cleveland St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Hemlington, High Leven, Ingleby Barwick, Ingleby Barwick with Leven Bridge, Thornton, Maltby near Yarm, Newtown, South Stockton, Stainsby, and Maltby.

STAINTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Stockton, W. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York; containing, with the townships of Hemlington, Ingleby-Berwick, and Malby, the chapelry of Thornaby, and the village of South Stockton, 2256 inhabitants, of whom 391 are in the township of Stainton, 5½ miles (S. E. by S.) from Stockton. The parish is in the district of Cleveland, and occupies an elevated site, commanding a view of the sea, and the mouth of the river Tees; the soil is a loam resting upon clay, and there is a quarry of whinstone affording excellent materials for the roads. The township of Stainton, the most considerable division in the parish, comprises the manors of Stainton, Thornton, and Stainsby, respectively styled in Domesday Book Steintun, Tornetun, and Stemanesbie: the chief owners of property in it, at various periods, appear to have been the families of De Brus, Thweng, Gower, and Pennyman. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 14. 2.; net income, £270; patron and appropriator, the Archbishop of York. The church, an ancient structure situated on an eminence, was thoroughly repaired in 1810. Attached to the vicarage is a library of 344 volumes on divinity, bequeathed by the Rev. Richard Lumley, vicar from 1667 to 1676. At Thornaby is a separate incumbency. There is a place of worship for Independents; and a parochial school, to which Mrs. Bourdon in 1817 left £5. 5. per annum, is further supported by subscription.

From: 'Stain - Stainton, Market', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 170-175. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51294 Date accessed: 27 March 2011.

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

STAINTON, a township in Stockton district, and a parish partly also in Stokesley district, and all in N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 4½ miles ENE of Yarm r. station, and has a post-office under Stockton. Acres, 2,820; of which 578 are water. Real property, £2,759. Pop., 357. Houses, 81. The parish includes four other townships, and comprises 7,744 acres. Pop. in 1851, 2,485; in 1861, 3,858. Houses, 757. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £323.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is ancient but good. The p. curacy of Thornaby is a separate benefice. There are a national school and some charities.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Poor Law Unions
Stockton Poor Law Union, Durham

Middlesbrough Poor Law Union, Yorkshire from 1876

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.

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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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