Skelton cum Newby, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes, S-Y West Riding  Skelton cum Newby

Parish History
SKELTON, a chapelry, in the parish and liberty ofRipon, W. riding of York, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) fromRipon; containing 403 inhabitants. The chapelry comprises by computation 1200 acres of land, a large portion of which is the property of Earl de Grey: the villageis seated on the river Ure, about two miles and a halfwest-north-west of Boroughbridge. The chapel, a handsome building in the early English style, was erected in1811 by Earl de Grey and the inhabitants, jointly: theliving is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Deanand Chapter of Ripon, and has a net income of £87.The tithes have been commuted for £135 per annum.

Skelton cum Newby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1749 from chapelry in Ripon Ancient Parish; refounded in 1815 from Skelton Ecclesiastical Parish. Wesleyan Methodist is the only identified non-Church of England denomination in Skelton cum Newby. Other places in the parish include: Newby with Mulwith and Newby

To find the names of the neighboring 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.

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
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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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