Skidby Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Skidby is a chapelry of Cottingham Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.

Alternative names: Skidby with Skidby Carr

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Particular Baptist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

SKIDBY, a parish, in the union of Beverley, Hunsley-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, E. riding of York, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Beverley; containing 361 inhabitants.

The parish comprises 1497a. 1r. 22p., of which by far the greater portion is arable: the village is long and scattered, lying on the eastern edge of the Wolds.

The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Cottingham: the church is dedicated to St. Michael.

There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Baptists.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Skidby

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

England, Yorkshire, Skidby – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Skidby, 1600-1835
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Skidby (Yorkshire)

Churchwardens accounts, 1813-1870
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Skidby (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Skidby, parish registers, 1813-1973
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Skerne (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Skidby, 1653-1892
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Skidby (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Skidby – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Skidby, Baptist, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Skidby, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Skidby – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Skidby, 1787-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Skidby-with-Skidby-Carr

England, Yorkshire, Skidby-with-Skidby-Carr – Church records ( 1 )
Births of Skidby, Baptist Church, 1824-1836
Author: Baptist Church (Skidby, England)

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Beverley
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Harthill and Hull
  • Poor Law Union: Beverly
  • Hundred: Harthill
  • Province: York