Newton in Cleveland, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  North Riding of Yorkshire  Newton in Cleveland



Parish History
Newton under Roseberry St Oswald is an Ancient parish in Cleveland in the North Riding of Yorkshire, created in 1735 from chapelry in Rudby, Yorkshire Ancient Parish.

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

NEWTON-IN-CLEVELAND, a parish in Guisbrough district, N. R. Yorkshire; near the source of the river Tees; 1½ mile S S W of Pinchingthorpe r. station, and 3 S W of Guisbrough. Post-town, Guisbrough, Yorkshire. Acres, 1, 440. Real property, £1, 100; of which £17 are in quarries. Pop., 122. Houses, 30. Roseberry-Topping here is a pyramidal mountain, 1, 488 feet high; contains a thick stratum of aluminous rock; and commands an extensive view. Blue whinstone, chiefly for road-metal, is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £45. Patron, T. K. Staveley, Esq. The church is ancient; and there is a parochial school.

NEWTON-IN-CLEVELAND, a parish, in the union of Guisborough, W. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York, 5 miles (N. E.) from Stokesley; containing 147 inhabitants.

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 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
Guisborough 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