Ugglebarnby, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire



Parish History
Ugglebarnby All Saints is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1748 from chapelry in Whitby, Yorkshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Little Beck and Iburn Dale.

UGGLEBARNBY, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Whitby, liberty of Whitby-Strand, N. riding of York, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from Whitby; containing448 inhabitants. Ugglebarnby belonged to Whitby Abbey, and at the Dissolution came into the possession of the Archbishop of York. The lower grounds are rich and fertile, and the higher indifferent corn land; the small river Little Beck runs through the chapelry. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Eskdaleside: the chapel was built in 1137, by Nicholas, abbot of Whitby.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 411-414. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51360 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.

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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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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