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Display of Registers
 | The picture above shows St Paul's, Aldbrough St John looking south across the Aldbrough Beck on a bright spring morning in 2003
If you want to contact us to ask for information, please use the mail form facility rather than the Guestbook. It has been necessary to remove the ability to respond to entries made in the Guestbook as unscrupulous people were using these email addresses as a route to gather addresses to which to send spam.
Once the full site is up and running recent register entries will be displayed for 12 months after their first appearance.
If you are researching your family history and wish to consult old parish registers, you should find all old registers for the churches in this benefice lodged with the North Yorkshire County Archive Service at Northallerton.
Their web address is: |
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Baptisms
 We now have a page on this site with pictures from recent baptisms.
The carved font (or possibly chalice)on a hood moulding can be found at East Layton church |
Stanwick Pew Allocation 1868
 | Stanwick Church
Allocation of Pews in 1868
These are the pew numbers which are still visible today
1 The Clerk's Seat
2 Mr Bell, Layton Fields
3 E.R. Kemp Esq, East Layton
4 Mr Heugh, East Layton
5 Mr Hodgson, Kirkbridge
6 Mr. Seymour, Micklow Hill
7 Mr John Wood, Park House
8 The Vicars
9 C.S. Bell Esq. Carlton Hall
10 C.S. Bell Esq. Carlton Hall
11 Mr Wardle, Carlton Green
12 Mr William Lax, Carlton Grange
13 Mr Alcock, Luck Cross Farm (now called Manor farm)
14 Mr Dewison, Sow Hill
15 Mr Newhouse, Caldwell
16 Mr Dent, Caldwell
17 Mr Wiilliam Wheatley, Greystone
18 Mr Lewis, Caldwell (apparently this should be 'Lennis' -see our Guest Book)
19 Mr Eeles, Foxbury
20 Mrs Eeles, Newhouse
21 Mr George Wheatley, Cole Hill
22 Mr Richard Nicholson, Caldwell
23 Caldwell Free Seat
24 Stanwick Gardener
25 Pond House, Moor Row
26 High Close, Moor Row
27 Stanwick Bailiff
28 Wm M. Walker Esq. Surgeon
29 Mr Thomas Stevenson, Rougham (now Kilton Grange)
30 Mr Kyle, Greystone Farm
31 Messrs Featham, Carter, Ridley
32 Miss Hind, Gayles
33 George Allison, Solicitor
34 Mr Spencley, Aldbrough
35 Mr Stubbs, Aldbrough
36 Ivy Cottage
37 Stanwick Hall servants
38 Stanwick Hall servants
39 Stanwick Hall servants
40 Stanwick Hall servants
41 Mr Rober Wilkin, Namens Leazes
42 Mr John Graham, Aldbrough
43 Mrs Wilson, Schoolmistress
44 Miss Ingledew, Aldbrough
45 Mr William Robinson, Aldbrough
46 Mr Langton, Aldbrough
47 Piper Hill, Cliffe
48 Aldbrough Free Seat
49 Aldbrough Free Seat
50 Layton Hall servants
51 Mr Kemp's tenants
52 Mr Christopher Yound, East Layton
53 Mr Robert Garth, Sorrowful Hill
54 Mr Shields and others
55 Mr Eden and others
56 The Vicar's servants
57 East Layton Free Seats
58 Free
59 Free
60 Stanwick Hall servants
61 Stanwick Hall servants
62 Stanwick Hall servants
62a Free
63 The Choir
64 The Choir
Tower Sunday School Scholars
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Stanwick Churchyard
 | A plan of Stanwick churchyard has been drawn up and the graves recorded by churchwarden Foster Turner.
If you are interested in information from Stanwick churchyard, please email us and we can send you an Excel spreadsheet listing all names and dates recorded in Stanwick church and churchyard, and an indication where each grave can be found on the churchyard plan plus details of cremated remains in Aldbrough churchyard.
If you have previously had a copy of an Excel spreadsheet from us, we now have the updated one you may have been told of as a future possibility, available.
If you visit Stanwick churchyard please note that though the church building is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, the churchyard is still the responsibility of the PCC. It's upkeep is a heavy financial responsibility on our funds and if you are able to send a donation towards it, details and envelopes ready addressed are available in the church. Thank you. |
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Melsonby Banns Book closes
On March 13th the current Banns of Marriage Register for St James’ Church Melsonby was used for the last time. Carla Nixon and her fiancé Philip Jackson who are to be married in Melsonby this month were the last couple to have their Banns read from it.
The first couple were Robert Barker and Jane Watson back in 1824.
The historic document will now be deposited in the Diocesan Archives at the North Yorkshire County Record Office in Northallerton. There it can be properly preserved and made available for research. Although it will be in the archives, it remains parish property and is in the public domain.
Before it was deposited we celebrated the register’s life with a special service in Melsonby Church on Sunday June 12th. This took the form of a Songs of Praise with favourite wedding hymns chosen by parishioners being sung. (Though we didn't get 'Fight the good fight' or 'Dear Lord and Father of Mankind forgive our foolish ways')
The full banns book has been photographed, transferred onto PDF files and put onto CD which is available for puchase in aid of St James' Melsonby. If you would like a copy, email us and we'll arrange to get one to you.
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