Welbury, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes S-Y  North Riding of Yorkshire  Welbury

Parish History
Welbury St Leonard is an Ancient Parish.

WELBURY (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Northallerton, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York, 6½ miles (N. N. E.) from Northallerton.

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 chapelry registers of Welbury exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

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.

Poor Law Unions
Northallerton 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