Sculcoates Christ Church, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
A chapel built at Hull, but which was considered as part of the parish of Sculcoates, was Christ Church Worship Street. It was created and built as a chapel of ease from Sculcoates All Saints (formerly St Mary's) ancient parish, by 1822.

Other places in the parish include: Sculcoates St Paul's (1844).

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. A church district named St. Paul's was formed in July 1844 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; it embraces a population of about 6000.

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 neighboring 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, non conformist 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

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