Yarm, Yorkshire, England Genealogy
Guide to Yarm, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Yarm | |
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| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Hundred | Langbaurgh |
| Poor Law Union | Stockton |
| Registration District | Stockton |
| Records Begin | |
| Parish registers | 1649; For more records see Kirk Levington |
| Bishop's Transcripts | 1609 |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Cleveland |
| Diocese | York |
| Province | York |
| Probate Court | Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York |
| Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Parish History
Yarm was a chapelry of Kirk Levington Ancient Parish in Yorkshire. St Mary Magdalene is the third church to occupy the site and a Georgian replacement for the Norman Church destroyed by fire. Nothing remains of the wooden Saxon predecessor. The rebuilt church of St Mary Magdalene has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building
Yarm is a small town and civil parish in the borough of Stockton on Tees North Yorkshire see Yarm Wikipedia and
YARM (St. Mary Magdalene), a market-town and parish, in the union of Stockton-on-Tees, W. division of the liberty of Langbaurgh, N. riding of York, 44miles (N. N. W.) from York, and 238 (N. by W.)from London [1]
Resources
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Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
- Type the name of the parish in the search bar
- Click on the location pin on the map
- Choose Options from the pop up box
- Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
Cemeteries
- 1741-1900 Monumental Inscriptions from the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Yarm-on-Tees, Cleveland, 1741-1900(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1884-1984 Cemetery Records for Yarm, 1884-1984(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
- See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.
Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records:
- Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
- Dates in the following table are approximate
Hover over the collection's title for more information
| Yarm Online Parish Records | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-North Riding | ||||||
| FamilySearch Marriage Bonds and Allegations-North Riding | ||||||
| FamilySearch Marriage Bonds and Allegations (Allertonshire)-North Riding | ||||||
| Parish Registers - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-North Riding ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Banns-North Riding ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Marriage Licences-North Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry Church of England Marriage Bonds-North Riding ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-Teesside, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials ($) | 1700s-1900s |
1800s-1900s |
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| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 1500s-1900s |
1500s-1900s |
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| Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
| National Burial Index-FMP (Free) | ||||||
Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
- Joiner Marriage Index - North Riding ($)
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - North Riding ($)
- UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
- Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
Nonconformist Records
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
Census Records
Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.
Poor Law Unions
Stockton Poor Law Union, Durham
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.
Websites
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 707-716. Date accessed: 11 October 2013.