Kirby in Cleveland, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Kirkby-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Kirkby in Cleveland St Augustine is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Great Dromonby, Little Dromanby, Little Dromonby, Great Dromanby, Broughton near Stokesley, Great and Little Broughton, and Broughton.

KIRKBY-IN-CLEVELAND, or Kirkby-cum Broughton (St. Augustine), a parish, in the union of Stokesley, W. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York.

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 Kirkby-in-Cleveland exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

Poor Law Unions
Stokesley 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

Websites
Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.