Thornaby Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Thornaby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1844 from chapelry in Stainton in Cleveland Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Stockton in Cleveland St Paul and South Stockton.

Alternative names: Stockton in Cleveland St Paul ad Vincula, Thornaby with South Stockton, Thornaby on Tees 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Thornaby

  • Parish registers: 1630
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Stockton in Cleveland St Paul

  • Parish registers: 1844
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1844

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THORNABY, a township-chapelry in Stainton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Tees, adjacent to Stockton. It contains South Stockton, which has a post-office under Stockton-upon-Tees.

Acres, 1,230. Real property, £7,239. Pop. in 1851, 1,759; in 1861, 3,126. Houses, 597. The increase of pop. arose from the erection of blast-furnaces, and the opening of iron-ship building yards. Pop. in 1868, about 6,000. The property is subdivided.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, the Archbishop of York.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Yorkshire, Thornaby-on-Tees

England, Yorkshire, Thornaby – Cemeteries ( 4 )
Burial and grave registers, 1869-1996
Author:    Thornaby Cemetery (Thornaby, Yorkshire)

Monumental inscriptions for St. Peter and Vincula, Thornaby-on-Tees
Author:    Cleveland Family History Society; Thornaby (Yorkshire : Borough)

Monumental inscriptions for Thornaby, St. Peter ad Vincula
Author:    Thornaby (Yorkshire : Borough)

Monumental inscriptions, St. Peter ad Vincula, Thornaby on Tees, South Stockton, 1736-1900
Author:    McLee, Carol A.

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

England, Yorkshire, Thornaby – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census for Thornaby
Author:    Cleveland Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Thornaby – Church records ( 8 )
Baptisms, 1870-1900
Author:    Cleveland Chapel (Thornaby, Yorkshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

Bishop’s transcripts for Stainton, near Yarm, 1604-1837
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Stainton (near Yarm, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thornaby-on-Tees, parish registers, 1844-1928
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornaby-on-Tees (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thornaby-on-Tees, St. Luke’s Church, parish registers, 1895-1901
Author:    Church of England. St. Luke’s Church (Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish registers and poor law records for Thornaby-on-Tees, 1718-1905
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornaby-on-Tees (Yorkshire)

Register of marriages for Peel Street Methodist Church, Thornaby, Yorkshire, 1953-1965
Author:    Peel Street Methodist Church (Thornaby, Yorkshire)

Register of marriages for the Wesleyan Chapel at Stafford Place, Thornaby, Yorkshire, 1914-1964
Author:    Stafford Place Chapel (Thornaby : Wesleyan Methodist)

Register of Primitive Methodist baptisms for Stockton on Tees and other places, 1834-1949
Author:    Stockton on Tees Circuit (Yorkshire : Primitive Methodist)

England, Yorkshire, Thornaby – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Thornaby or Thornaby on Tees, Yorks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Thornaby on Tees, York, England christenings, 1844-1876
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Yorkshire, Thornaby – Maps ( 1 )
Stockton-on-Tees & Thornaby
Author:    Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

England, Yorkshire, Thornaby – Occupations ( 1 )
Parish registers and poor law records for Thornaby-on-Tees, 1718-1905
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornaby-on-Tees (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Thornaby – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish registers and poor law records for Thornaby-on-Tees, 1718-1905
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Thornaby-on-Tees (Yorkshire)

Administration

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