Seamer Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Seamer is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1728 from a chapelry in Rudby in Cleveland Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Newby near Stokesley and Newby.

Alternative names: Seamer in Cleveland, Seamer near Stokesley

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1638
  • Bishop’s Transcripts:1601

Nonconformists include: 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SEAMER, a parish, with a village, in Stokesley district, N. R Yorkshire; 2¾ miles N W of Stokesley r. station. Post-town, Stokesley, under Northallerton.

Acres, 2, 610. Real property, £3, 604. Pop., 260. Houses, 53. The manor belongs to Lord Leconfield. There are a tumulus and vestiges of an ancient entrenchment.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £56. Patron, Lord Leconfield.

There is a parochial school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Seamer (near Stokesley) – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Martin, Seamer, N. Yks., monumental inscriptions
Author:    McLee, Carol A.; Cleveland Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Seamer (near Stokesley) – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Seamer, near Stokesley, 1601-1871
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Seamer (near Stokesley, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Seamer (near Stokesley) – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Seamer by Stokesley, 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