Melton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Melton is a chapelry of Welton Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.

Alternative names: Melton near Hull

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MELTON, a township-chapelry in Welton parish, E. R. Yorkshire; near the Hull and Selby railway and the Humber, 1¼ mile WNW of Ferriby r. station, and 8½ W of Hull. It has a post office under Brough.

Acres, 900. Real property, £1,680. Pop., 175. Houses, 36. The manor belongs to Mrs. R. Whitaker. There are brick and tile works.

The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Welton, in the diocese of York.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Melton (near Hull) – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Melton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Melton (near Hull) – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Welton with Melton, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Melton (near Hull) – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Melton, 1783-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Sculcoates
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Durham within the Jurisdiction of Howden and Howdenshire
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    Harthill and Hull
  • Poor Law Union:    Sculcoates
  • Hundred:    Howdenshire
  • Province:    York