Faceby Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Faceby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1792 from a chapelry in Whorlton Ecclesiastical Parish. 

Alternative names: 

Riding: North Riding

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1707
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FACEBY, a chapelry in Whorlton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles SE of Potto r. station, and 4 SSW of Stokesley. Post-town, Swainby, under Northallerton. Acres, 1, 402. Real property, £1,269. Pop., 164. Houses, 35. Faceby Hall is the seat of the Favells. The living is a p. curacy. Value, £81. Patron, G. W. Sutton, Esq. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Faceby – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions Kirkby in Cleveland area
Author:    Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society

St. Mary Magdalene, Faceby, N. Yks., monumental inscriptions
Author:    McLee, Carol A.

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

England, Yorkshire, Faceby – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census for Faceby, Seamer, Sexhow, Potto, Crathorne, Hutton Rudby, Middleton on Levin, Ingleby Arncliffe, Ingleby Cross
Author:    Cleveland Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Faceby – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Faceby, 1731-1858
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Faceby (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Faceby, parish registers, 1768-1983
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Faceby (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Faceby, St. Mary Magdalene : baptisms 1731-1850
Author:    Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society

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

Administration

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