Redmire, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Redmire

Parish History
Redmire St Mary is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1748 from chapelry in Wensley, Yorkshire Ancient Parish.

REDMIRE, a chapelry, in the parish of Wensley,union of Leybourn, wapentake of Hang-West, N.riding of York, 6¼ miles (W. N. W.) from Middleham;containing 288 inhabitants. The lead-mines formerly in operation here have been almost exhausted, but calamine is got in abundance, and in the neighbourhood coal is obtained. In the chapelry is a fine spring strongly impregnated with sulphur, with a convenient well for bathing. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Bolton-Castle: the chapel is dedicated to St.Mary. The tithes have been commuted for £184, and the rectorial glebe here consists of an acre and a half.There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; also a free school, founded in 1725 by the Rev. Thomas Baynes,who endowed it with lands now producing an income of about £19.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 652-655. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51234 Date accessed: 09 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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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Leyburn 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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