Whitby St John the Evangelist, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Whitby St John the Evangelist Baxtergate was built as a chapel of ease to Whitby, Yorkshire and consecrated in 1850.

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, further down Baxtergate, was built in 1848–9 and consecrated in1850, and consists of a nave of five bays with aisles and two shallow projections in the form of transepts opposite the second bay from the east. The style is13th-century Gothic, and the arcades are lofty with tall coupled lancet windows to the aisles. At the east end is a chancel arch, but the chancel itself has never been completed. Behind the altar is a carved stone reredos with a mosaic of the Last Supper. It is a chapel of ease to the parish church.

From: 'Parishes: Whitby', A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 (1923), pp. 506-528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64701&amp;amp;strquery=Whitby Date accessed: 07 May 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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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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Web sites
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