Normanby, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Normanby

Parish History
Normanby-in-Cleveland is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.Other places in the parish include: Rook Barugh, Thornton Risebrough, and Thornton Riseborough.

NORMANBY-IN-CLEVELAND, a township, in the chapelry of Eston, parish of Ormesby, union of Guisborough, E. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York, 5¾ miles (W. N. W.) from Guisborough; containing 134 inhabitants. At the time of the Domesday survey, lands were held here by the king, the Earl of Morton, and the family of Mallet; amongst the proprietors since that date, occur the families of Brus, Thweng, Morley, and Pennyman. The township comprises 1640 acres: the river Tees runs at a short distance to the north. The village, which is small, is situated close to Eston, and on the road from Yarm to Kirk-Leatham. The tithes have been commuted for £179, payable to the Archbishop of York.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 421-423. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51182 Date accessed: 29 April 2011.

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
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.

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
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.

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
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