Stockton on the Forest Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Stockton on the Forest is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1738 from a chapelry in Bugthorpe Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

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

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STOCKTON-ON-THE-FOREST, a parish, with a village, in the district of York and N. R Yorkshire; adjacent to the York and Market-Weighton railway, 5 miles NE of York. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under York.

Acres, 3,270. Rated property, £1,778. Pop., 449. Houses, 95. The manor belongs to J. Agar, Esq. S. Hall, Brockfield, and Hazel-Bush are chief residences.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £250. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Stockton-on-the-Forest – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions, Holy Trinity, Stockton-on-the-Forest, 1646-2000
Author:    City of York & District Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Stockton-on-the-Forest (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Stockton-on-the-Forest – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Stockton on the Forest, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Stockton-on-the-Forest – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Stockton-on-the-Forest, 1600-1864
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Stockton-on-the-Forest (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Stockton-on-the-Forest, parish registers, 1653-1939
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Stockton-on-the-Forest (Yorkshire); University of York. Borthwick Institute

Parish register transcripts, 1813-1837
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Stockton-on-the-Forest (Yorkshire); Smith, Margaret E.

Parish registers for Stockton-on-the-Forest, 1653-1901
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Stockton-on-the-Forest (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Stockton-on-the-Forest – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Stockton-on-the-Forest, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Stockton-on-the-Forest – Probate records ( 1 )
Original wills, bonds, inventories, 1544-1831
Author:    Church of England. Prebendal Court (Bugthorpe)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    York
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Bugthorpe
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    Bulmer
  • Poor Law Union:    York
  • Hundred:    Bulmer
  • Province:    York