Lythe, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Lythe St Oswald is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Mickleby, Kettleness, Nickleby, Sandsend, Ugthorpe, Barnby, Borrowby, Borrowby near Whitby, Briscoe, East Row, Ellerby, Ellerby near Whitley, Goldsbrough, Hutton Mulgrave, and Newton Mulgrave.

LYTHE (St. Oswald), a parish, in the union of Whitby, E. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York; containing, with the townships of Barnby, Borrowby, Ellerby, Hutton-Mulgrave, Mickleby, Newton-Mulgrave, and Ugthorpe, 2080 inhabitants, of whom 1063 are in the township of Lythe, 4 miles (W.N. W.) from Whitby. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; and at Ugthorpe is a Roman Catholic chapel.

From: Lewis, Samuel A.,  A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 203-208. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51127 Date accessed: 06 May 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.

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
Whitby 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

Web sites
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