Whitby St Hilda, Yorkshire Genealogy

England

Yorkshire

North Riding Parishes

Whitby St Hilda

Guide to Whitby St Hilda, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Parish History

St Hilda was built as further district church for Whitby from part of Whitby, Yorkshire Ancient Parish

ST. HILDA'S Church,on the west cliff, was built in 1885 from the designs of Mr. R. J. Johnson at a cost of £18,500. It is a large,lofty and handsome example of modern work in the 'Decorated' style, consisting of chancel with side chapels, nave with aisles and narthex, and a central tower not yet completed. The quire has a fine seven-light east window, the west window being of six lights and filled with a Jesse tree in stained glass. The nave is five bays long, with a narthex of three bays across the west end, containing a dark marble carved font in the style of the 15th century. The fittings of the church are carried out with great magnificence and include a carved and painted reredos, a carved oak rood screen under the western tower arch, a carved stone pulpit with an oak sounding-board and a bishop's seat, of the same material, to the north of the altar, with an ornate canopy reaching nearly to the roof. The quire roof is of wagon form with carved angels to the cornice, and on the south side are three stone sedilia and a piscina. This also is a chapel of ease.

Resources

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

Whitby St Hilda parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FS = FamilySearch - free

FMP = Yorkshire Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)

FMP BTs = Yorkshire Bishop's Transcripts of Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)

FMP Banns = Yorkshire Banns (FindMyPast) - ($)

FMP Marr = Yorkshire, Archbishop Of York Marriage Licences Index, 1613-1839 (FindMyPast) - ($)

JOIN = The Joiner Marriage Index - ($)

BOYD = England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free

NBI = National Burial Index (FindMyPast) - free

IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free

FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free

FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free

Whitby St Hilda Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS	1538-1975		1538-1973		1538-1991
FMP	1538-2000		1534-1942		1537-2016
FMP BTs	1558-1914		1558-1899		1560-1919
FMP Banns			1600-1932
FMP Marr			1613-1839
JOIN			1538-1837
BOYD			1538-1850
NBI					1538-2005
IGI
FS Catalog PRs
FS Catalog BTs

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the North Yorkshire County Record Office.

Poor Law Unions

Whitby 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

England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 (FindMyPast) - free

International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free