Sand Hutton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Sand Hutton



Parish History
Sand Hutton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1753 from Thirsk, Yorkshire Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Claxton.

The ruins of the former church of St Leonard are within the churchyard of St Mary which was built in 1842 to replace the older parish church. St Mary is a Grade II listed building. The Sand Hutton group of 10 churches form the modern benefice in the diocese of York.

The church of ST. LEONARD at Sand Hutton is a modern building consecrated in 1875 after the destruction of the older chapel. (fn. 244) It is in the Early English style, and consists of a chancel, nave, vestry and south porch. In the south chancel wall is a 15th-century window of two trefoiled lights under a square head, brought from the old church. Behind the altar is a modern painted reredos, and the western bellcote contains one bell. Two water-colour drawings of the interior and exterior of the old church are preserved in the vestry. They show a small rectangular structure with a western bellcote having a two-light east window, probably that still preserved, and several 18th-century openings in the south wall. The interior had a low-pitched barrel ceiling.

The plate consists of a silver cup and paten-cover of 1818, the paten forming a cover for the cup.

The registers begin in 1706.

From A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 (1923), pp. 58-70. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64612 Date accessed: 13 May 2011.

Civil Registration
Records from the held at the North Yorkshire Registration Service are included in the online index available at Yorkshire BMD for post 1837 events; view the coverage table to check progress on the availability of index search.

Marriages include


 * Church of England marriages.
 * Civil Marriages at register offices, or non-conformist churches where a registrar was required to be present at the ceremony.
 * Authorised Person marriages. These cover the non-conformist places of worship which applied to keep their own registers as a result of the Marriage Act, 1898 (bringing them into line with Jewish and Quaker marriages which had this status since 1837). In such cases an 'Authorised Person' (usually the minister or priest) recorded the ceremony instead of the registrar. Earlier weddings in these places would be included with civil marriage registers.

A secondary index of 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 however this secondary index may omit the event and may not contain the detail of the Yorkshire BMD index

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
Thirsk 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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