Pockley, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Pockley



Parish History
Pockley St John the Baptist was a chapelry of Helmsley, Yorkshire Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.Other places in the parish include: Eastmoors and East Moors.

POCKLEY, a township, in the parish and union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York,2¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Helmsley; containing 210 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 3560 acres,including part of East-moor: the village is seated a little eastward of the Rical rivulet. A neat chapel of ease was erected in 1822, by C. Duncombe, Esq., afterwards Lord Feversham.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 578-586. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51217 Date accessed: 29 April 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
Helmsley 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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