From 1663 to the end of 1812:

• 3,538 baptisms
• 1,116 marriages
• 2,433 burials

The baptisms from 1798 to the end of 1812 contain the mothers’ maiden name and both parents’ nativity (birthplaces). Also in this period, the burials of children usually include the mother’s maiden name and burials of married women usually give her maiden name. This Northumberland parish shares a border with the parish of Edmundbyers in County Durham, and there was lots of family movement back and forth between these two and other adjacent parishes.

These records are from Ron Nubley’s Index, which we are in the process of integrating into our collection, so when you buy one of these, you will immediately get the brief index entry, and the full entry will be transcribed and emailed to you within 3 days, at which point it becomes part of our database and you can view it again at any time.

387 baptisms from the Barnard Castle Wesleyan Methodist Circuit from 1837 to Jan 1857. This Methodist circuit covered the County Durham and Yorkshire towns of Barnard Castle, Barningham, Bowes, Cotherstone, Cleatlam, Eggleston, Ingleton, Lunedale, Mickleton, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Newbiggin, Romaldkirk, Shildon, Staindrop, and Woodlands. Many of the baptisms include the birth date of the child. For example:

• 3 Feb 1840 John Joseph Richardson, of Collingwood House, Romaldkirk, born 28 Dec 1839, child of Robert Richardson & Emma

218 marriages at Billingham in Stockton district from 1813 to mid-1837

552 baptisms at South Shields St. Hilda in 1817

Added these Northumberland parishes:

Whittonstall (St. Philip & St. James)

• 687 baptisms 1774 – 1851
  
• 200 marriages 1750 – 1851
• 426 burials 1774 – 1851

Bywell St. Andrew

• 1,187 baptisms 1668 – 1812
• 272 marriages 1685 – 1812
• 906 burials 1668 – 1812

Bywell St. Andrew contains the townships of Beal, Broomhaugh, Riding, Stocksfield Hall, and Styford. Whittonstall comprises the townships of Whittonstall and Newlands, and was a chapelry in the parish of Bywell St. Peter. These parishes, just beyond the northwest border of Durham, contained families who moved back and forth between these Northumberland parishes and the Durham parishes of Muggleswick, Edmondbyers, Hunstanworth, Consett, Chopwell, Leadgate, Ebchester, and Ryton.

These records are from Ron Nubley’s Index, which we are in the process of integrating into our collection, so when you buy one of these, you will immediately get the brief index entry, and the full entry will be transcribed and emailed to you within 3 days, at which point it becomes part of our database and you can view it again at any time.

• 583 baptisms in 1816 at South Shields St. Hilda’s
• 1,032 burials at Pittington St. Lawrence from the beginning of the register in 1593 to the beginning of 1700

Marriages from 1813 to mid-1837 at the following Anglican churches:

• Washington Holy Trinity (322 marriages)
• Whitburn St. Mary (106 marriages)
• Whitworth Parish (23 marriages) – includes witnesses for most marriages
• Whorlton St. Mary (42 marriages)
• Winston St. Andrew (63 marriages)
• Witton-le-Wear St. Philip & St. James (131 marriages)
• Auckland St. Andrew (886 marriages)

Marriages and burials to round out our Northumberland Catholic collection:

Stonecroft & Hexham Roman Catholic church

• 81 marriages 1716 – 1838
• 201 burials 1715 – 1825

Minsteracres Roman Catholic church in Bywell St. Peter

• 17 marriages 1776 – 1836
• 161 marriages 1765 – 1839

7,625 burials from mid-1871 (where we left off last time) to the end of 1876. These records provide the address of the deceased,  the names and professions of the fathers and sometimes mothers (in the case of children) or the spouse (in the case of a married woman). Sometimes a cause of death is also given, and if the deceased was Jewish or Quaker, that was noted. Some examples:

• 28 Dec 1876 Mary Hannah Cook, of Hillfield, age: 1 day, daughter of Marshall Cook (Glass Founder)
• 28 Dec 1876 Hannah Stafford, of 37 South Durham Street, age: 67, wife of Ralph Stafford (Store Keeper)
• 9 Apr 1874 Mary Jane Watson, of 11 Hort Street, Deptford, age: 13, daughter of Martha Watson, now the wife of Richard King, Engineer

Baptisms at the Roman Catholic churches of:

• Minsteracres St. Elizabeth (in Bywell St Peter parish) 1766-1794 (83 baptisms)
• Stonecroft & Hexham (in Hexham parish) 1715-1832 (1,490 baptisms)

We will follow this shortly with marriages and burials for the same churches.