Aislaby Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Aislaby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1768 from a chapelry in Whitby Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Aislaby near Whitby, Whitby St Margaret

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1866
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Aislaby Parish Records

School Records

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Aislaby School 1900-1909 Admissions

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

AISLABY, a chapelry in Whitby parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the Esk river and the Whitby railway, at Sleights station, 3 miles SW of Whitby. Post Town, Sleights under Whitby. Acres, 1,068. Real property, £1,568. Pop., 330. Houses, 76. A building limestone is quarried here, and was the material of Whitby Abbey and of several great modern works. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £87. Patron, J Boulby, Esq. Charities, £11.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Aislaby, 3 miles S.W. Whitby. P. 474

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Aislaby, or Ayslaby, a township and chapelry in the parish of Whitby, north riding of Yorkshire. Living, a perpetual curacy in the archd. of Cleveland and dio. of York, not in charge, but returned to parliament at £45; gross income £87. Patroness, in 1835, Mrs R. Boulby. There is a National school here. Pop., in 1801, 211; in 1831,276. Houses 62. Acres 1,080. A. P. £1,251. Poor rates, in 1837, £42.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Aislaby, a township, partly in the parish of Whitby, partly in that of Middleton, north riding of Yorkshire; 2 miles west-north-west of Pickering, on the road to Kirby-Ironside. Pop., in 1801, 374; in 1831, 402. Houses 90. Acres 2,190. A. P. £2,333. Poor rates, in 1837, £75.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Maps

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Administration

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