Sculcoates All Saints, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire   Yorkshire Parishes, S-Y East Riding of Yorkshire Sculcoates

Parish History
Sculcoates All Saints was created as a chapelry in the year,

SCULCOATES (St. Mary), a parish, and the head of a union, in the borough of Hull, locally in the E.riding of York; containing 16,682 inhabitants. Its population, less than a century ago, did not exceed 100; but the southern part of the parish, since the construction of a dock on the western bank of the river Hull, in 1774, has been extensively built upon, and now forms a large and populous part of the environs of Hull. The parochial church, was built in the year 1760; and an act was obtained in 1814, for the erection of an additional edifice called Christ-Church,which was consecrated in 1822. A church district named St. Paul's was formed in July 1844 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The church foundation stone was laid in June 1846. The Independents, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics have places of worship.

Lewis, Samuel A., http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51260 A Topographical Dictionary of England] (1848), pp. 34-36. Adapted. Date accessed: 17 April 2013.

Sculcoates [All Saints] is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Eastern Division, Western Division, Sculcoates West, and Sculcoates East. Non-Church of England denominations identified in Sculcoates [All Saints] include: Baptist, Christians, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist Association, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

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 the parish registers of All Saints (formerly St Mary's) exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, see "Parish History" (above) or, 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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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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