Wykeham, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WYKEHAM (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Scarborough, Pickering lythe, N. riding of York, 6½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Scarborough; containing,with the village of Ruston, and the township of Longdale-End, 597 inhabitants. Wykeham was an Ancient Parish in North Yorkshire which included Ruston and Langdale End. Wykeham is a small village and civil parish on the outskirts of Scarborough and in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire. See also Wykeham Scarborough Wikipedia

Wykeham All Saints Church which dates from 1853-1855 has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building.

A Methodist church at Rushton and Wesleyan Methodist church at Langdale End were within the Ancient Parish boundary. Langdale End is in the civil parish of Darncombe cum Langdale End Wikipedia Wykeham should not be confused with the settlement of the same name in Old Malton, Yorkshire Ancient Parish

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
Wykeham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. 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.

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