Rokeby, Yorkshire Genealogy
England 
Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R North Riding of Yorkshire Rokeby
Guide to Rokeby, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Rokeby, Yorkshire | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | West Gilling |
| County | Yorkshire |
| Poor Law Union | Teesdale |
| Registration District | Teesdale |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1589 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1663 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Richmond |
| Diocese | Pre-1836 - York; Post-1835 - Ripon |
| Province | York |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries - Richmond |
| Location of Archive | |
| Yorkshire Record Office | |
Parish History
Rokeby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Greta Bridge.
ROKEBY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Teesdale, wapentake of Gilling-West, N. riding of York, 3 miles (S. E. by S.) from Barnard-Castle. [1]
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
Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Rokeby exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:
| IARC = Internet Archive - free | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch.org | |||||
| AC = http://www.ancestry.com/ (£) | |||||
| HATH = HathiTrust.org - free | |||||
| JOIN = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk - (£) |
| ROKEBY PARISH (1598) Online Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS | 1598-1847 |
1609-1836 |
None |
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| JOIN | None | 1598-1837 |
None | |||
| AC | None |
None |
None |
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For a full list of all those chapels surrounding **Chapelry** and comprising the whole ancient parish of Rokeby to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Rokeby page.
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.
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the FamilySearch Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
Poor Law Unions
Teesdale 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.
Web sites
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 690-695. Date accessed: 25 October 2013.