Stokesley Yorkshire Family History Guide
Stokesley an Ancient Parish, Civil Parish and a market town in the county of Yorkshire. Westerdale, originally a township of Stokesley became an Ecclesiastical Parish in 1858. It has been a separate Civil Parish since early times.
Other places in the parish include: Great Busby, Easby, Baysdale Moor, Westerdale, Tanton, Stokesley with Tanton, South Tanton, North Tanton, Newby, Little Busby, and Great and Little Busby.
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Parish registers begin:
Stokesley
- Parish registers: 1571
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1598
Westerdale
- Parish registers: 1562
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Rudby in Cleveland
- Guisborough
- Bilsdale
- Kirkbymoorside
- Kildale
- Rosedale
- Seamer
- Carlton
- Great Ayton
- Marton
- Kirby in Cleveland
- Danby with Castleton
- Lastingham
- Stainton in Cleveland
- Ingleby Greenhow
Parish History
Stokesley
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STOKESLEY, a small town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in N. R. Yorkshire.
The town stands on the river Leven, near the North Yorkshire and Cleveland railway, amid pleasant environs, 9 miles SE by S of Stockton-upon-Tees; consists chiefly of one spacious street; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling place; and has a post-office under Northallerton, a r. station with telegraph, two banking offices, two chief inns, a town hall of 1853, a church rebuilt in 1777, three dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a Church institute, an endowed school with £139 a year, a workhouse, a weekly market on Saturday, and fairs on the Saturdays before 14 Feb., Palm-Sunday, Trinity-Sunday, and 19 Oct.
The township comprises 1,744 acres. Real property, £8,393; of which £50 are in gasworks. Pop., 1,993. Houses, 465.
The parish contains also Great Busby, Little Busby, Newby, and Easby townships. Acres, 6,239. Pop., 2,401. Houses, 547. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £1,206. Patron, the archbishop of York.
The sub-district contains 9 parishes and 4 parts. Acres, 60,236. Pop., 7,853. Houses, 1,651.
The district includes also Hutton sub-district, and comprises 79,345 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £4,355. Pop. in 1851, 9,387; in 1861, 10,381. Houses, 2,208. Marriages in 1863, 71; births, 380, of which 31 were illegitimate; deaths, 224, of which 65 were at ages under 5 years, and 12 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 692; births, 3,139; deaths, 1,830.
The places of worship, in 1851, were 16 of the Church of England, with 3,063 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 254 s.; 1 of Quakers, with 300 s.; 15 of Wesleyans, with 1,734 s.; 9 of Primitive Methodists, with 717 s.; and 1 of Roman Catholics, with 120 s.
The schools were 16 public day-schools, with 729 scholars; 14 private day-schools, with 365 s.; 17 Sunday schools, with 603 s.; and 1 evening school for adults, with 16 s.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Westerdale
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WESTERDALE, a parish in Guisbrough district, N. R. Yorkshire; 2½ miles SSW of Castleton r. station, and 7½ SE of Guisbrough. Post town, Castleton, under Yarm.
Acres, 15,930. Real property, £2,470; of which £18 are in mines. Pop., 279. Houses, 59. The manor, with W. Hall, belongs to the Hon. Col. Duncombe. Baysdale Abbey belongs to Lord Boyne. Much of the land is moor and mountain.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £200. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, and an endowed school with £15 a year.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Stokesley
Westerdale
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