Sculcoates All Saints Yorkshire Family History Guide

Sculcoates All Saints or Kingston upon Hull All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Western Division, Sculcoates West, Sculcoates East, and Eastern Division.

Alternative names: Kingston upon Hull All Saints, Margaret Street

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1538
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Christians, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist Association, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

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Adjacent Parishes

Sculcoates All Saints Parish Registers

Sculcoates Parish Registers 1538-1772

Paver’s Marriage Licences

It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.

1630 George Farrer, Newland, Cottingham, and Elizabeth Bellard, widow Sculcoates — either place.

Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SCULCOATES, a parish and a district, in E. R. Yorkshire. The parish lies wholly within Hull borough; contains a large portion of Hull town; is cut into two sub-districts, East and West; and has been considerably noticed in our article on Hull. Acres, 1,010. Real property, £85, 979; of which £800 are in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 22,325; in 1861, 27,167. Houses, 5, 842.

The land was held, at Domesday, by Ralph de Mortimer; went afterwards to a priory founded on it; had scarcely100 inhabitants so late as about 1770; and began to be a populous suburb of Hull immediately after the construction of the Hull docks.

The parish is ecclesiastically cut into three sections, St. Mary, Christchurch, and St. Paul. The living of St. M. is a vicarage, and the other livings are p. curacies, in the diocese of York. Value of St. M. and C., each £300; of St. P., £410. Patron of St. M., the Lord Chancellor; of C., the Vicar and Eight Trustees; of St. P., alternately the Crown and the Archbishop.

The district comprehends also the sub-districts of Drypool, Hedon, Hessle, Ferriby, Cottingham, and Sutton; and comprises 45,084 acres. Poor-rates in 1863, £15, 383. Pop. in 1851, 44, 719; in 1861, 51, 956. Houses, 11, 182. Marriages in 1863, 620; births, 2, 149, of which 129 were illegitimate; deaths 1, 467, of which 752 were at ages under 5 years, and 23 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 5, 397; births, 17,002; deaths, 10, 763.

The places of worship, in 1851, were 15 of the Church of England, with 10, 194 sittings; 6 of Independents, with 3, 615 s.; 3 of Baptists, with 590 s.; 1 of Unitarians, with 30 s.; 16 of Wesleyans, with 4, 807 s.; 3 of New Connexion Methodists, with1, 160 s.; 11 of Primitive Methodists, with 2, 404 s.; 1 of Wesleyan Reformers, with 1,000 s.; 1 undefined, with 34 s.; 2 of Roman Catholics, with 878 s.; and 1 of Latter Day Saints, with 10 attendants.

The schools were 20 public day-schools, with 2, 325 scholars; 132 private day-schools, with 2, 915 s.; 39 Sunday schools, with5, 470 s.; and 5 evening schools for adults, with 46 s. The workhouse is in West Sculcoates sub-district, and, at the census of 1861, had 257 inmates.

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

Administration

County: Yorkshire
Civil Registration District: Sculcoates
Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
Diocese: York
Rural Deanery: Harthill and Hull
Poor Law Union: Sculcoates
Hundred: Kingston upon Hull Borough
Province: York