Skeffling Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Skeffling is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Birstall Garth Manor and Birstall Garth.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1585
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SKEFFLING, a parish, with a village, in Patrington district, E. R. Yorkshire; on the Humber, 4½ miles SE of Patrington r. station. Post town, Patrington, under Hull.

Acres, 4,652; of which 3,072 are water. Real property, £2,466. Pop., 205. Houses, 41. The property is subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £53. Patron, the Rev. H. T. Holme. The church is ancient.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £8.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Skeffling – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Skeffling and Kinslea monumental inscriptions
Author: East Yorkshire Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Skeffling – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Skeckling cum Burstwick, 1600-1842
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Skeckling cum Burstwick (Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Skeffling (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Skeffling, 1604-1853
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Skeffling (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Skeffling, parish registers, 1585-1992
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Skeffling (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Skeffling – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Skeffling, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Skeffling – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Skeffling, 1782-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Patrington
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: South Holderness
  • Poor Law Union: Patrington
  • Hundred: Holderness
  • Province: York