Pickering, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  North Riding  Pickering



Parish History
Pickering St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Yorkshire. Ellerburne, Yorkshire is a chapelry of Pickering.Other places in the parish include: The Marishes, Newton, Kingthorpe, and Marishes.

Pickering is a market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire Pickering Wikipedia

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

The Methodist chapel at Potter Hill has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

A gazetteer entry From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 564-567. URL: here

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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist 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.

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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