Stanwick St John, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire

Parish History
Stanwick is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Aldborough, Aldbrough, East Layton, Barforth, and Aldbrough near Richmond. STANWICK ST. JOHN (St. John the Baptist), aparish, in the union of Richmond, wapentake of Gilling-West, N. riding of York, 8½ miles (W. by S.)from Darlington; containing, with the townships of Aldborough, Caldwell, and East Layton, 907 inhabitants, of whom 37 are in the township of Stanwick.This parish, which extends nearly to the river Tees,comprises by computation 5800 acres of arable, meadow,and pasture land, interspersed with tracts of woodland and plantations. The surface is beautifully diversified,the soil generally fertile, and game of every kind is found in abundance. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 13. 4.; net income, £58. 16.;patron, John Wharton, Esq. The church is a very ancient structure, covered with ivy, and contains some interesting monuments, among which are finely-executed marble statues of Sir Hugh and Lady Smithson, and,near the pulpit, a beautiful monument erected in 1838to the memory of three daughters of the second Duke of Northumberland. A chapel was lately built at Caldwell,by the Countess of Bridgewater, by whom it was endowed. In the parish is an intrenchment inclosing an area of nearly 1000 acres, ascribed to the ancient Britons,to the Romans, and to the Scots; nothing of its history is distinctly known.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 186-192. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51298 Date accessed: 30 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 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.

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Richmond 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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