Sinnington, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Sinnington



Parish History
Sinnington All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Little Edstone, Marton near Pickering, and Marton.

SINNINGTON, a parish, in the union of Pickering,partly in Pickering lythe, and partly in the wapentakeof Ryedale, N. riding of York; containing, with the townships of Little Edstone and Marton, 623 inhabitants, of whom 368 are in Sinnington township, 4¾ miles(W. N. W.) from Pickering. The parish is situated on the road from Pickering to Helmsley, and on the river Seven. It comprises 2075a. 33p., whereof 1254 acres are arable, 723 pasture, and 96 woodland; the soil is a rich clayey loam, the surface undulated, and the scenery picturesque. The living is a perpetual curacy; income,£84; patron and impropriator, the Master of Hemsworth school: the tithes were commuted for land and annual money payments in 1786. The church was built from the remains of a monastery, and was beautified in1841. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 110-113. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51279 Date accessed: 07 May 2011.

Civil Registration
Records from the Ryedale registration district held at the North Yorkshire Registration Service are included in the online index available at Yorkshire BMD for post 1837 events; view the coverage table to check progress on the availability of index search.

Marriages include


 * Church of England marriages.
 * Civil Marriages at register offices, or non-conformist churches where a registrar was required to be present at the ceremony.
 * Authorised Person marriages. These cover the non-conformist places of worship which applied to keep their own registers as a result of the Marriage Act, 1898 (bringing them into line with Jewish and Quaker marriages which had this status since 1837). In such cases an 'Authorised Person' (usually the minister or priest) recorded the ceremony instead of the registrar. Earlier weddings in these places would be included with civil marriage registers.

A secondary index of 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 however this secondary index may omit the event and may not contain the detail of the Yorkshire BMD index

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
Pickering 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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