• 499 baptisms from Aug 1910 to Sep 1916
• Includes birth dates.
• Locations mentioned include Durham City, Bearpark, Broomside, Carrville, Craghead, Crossgate, Daisy Hill, Edmondsley, Esh, Framwellgate, Gilesgate, Langley Park, Leamside, Moorsley (Low & High), Nevilles Cross, New Brancepeth, New Durham, Pittington (Low & High), Pity Me, Rainton Gate, Sacriston, Sherburn, Sleetburn, Ushaw Moor, Whitwell Pit, and Witton Gilbert.
• Sample:
  22 Sep 1915 Sarah Percival, of 8 Victoria St, Low Pittington, born 3 Aug 1915, daughter of Charles Reuben Percival (miner) & Margaret Elizabeth Percival

555 baptisms

 Marriage bonds issued by the Durham Diocese 1688-1693 (1,154 bonds). There are no surviving bonds 1 Jan 1688 - 27 Mar 1688.

Please read the Marriages Bonds section of the Transcription Samples page for a description of what information is found in bonds, allegations, and associated documents, and how we present that information.

The Diocese of Durham covered all of County Durham and parts of Northumberland and North Yorkshire.  Marriage bonds were not issued on a per-district basis, so the District filter is ignored when the marriage bond database is searched.

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.

207 baptisms from Redmarshall St. Cuthbert near Stockton, 1823-1843. Abodes mentioned include Carlton, Redmarshall, and Stillington, plus a few distant locations.

Replaced the burial index for Middleton-in-Teesdale (St. Mary the Virgin) 1653-1770 with full details so those 2,817 burials are now immediately available.

Though not given as cause of death in individual records, there is a note on 17 Mar 1742 that 26 people died of smallpox during the previous year - 26 out of 45 deaths.
 

4,306 burials. As usual, the cemetery register gives more details than the church burial record. Some samples:

• 14 Nov 1886 John Anderson Hood, of 22 Water Street, age: 38, rivetter, died at Sedgefield Lunatic Asylum
• 24 Dec 1886 Thomas Churchland Haysom, of 6 Little Villiers Street, age: 7, son of Thomas Haysom (boilermaker), died at the Children’s Hospital, Lambton Street.

512 baptisms in 1822

981 baptisms on the Durham Primitive Methodist Circuit, which covered a large area around Durham City. Due to the nature of Methodist circuit registers, this data set is not complete - there will be more baptisms coming later from the 1910-1925 period.

997 marriages from the start of the register in May 1854 to the end of 1874

Regarding the dispute mentioned in the Christ Church baptisms post below, in April 1856, the Bishop of Durham advised John Hart Burgess to discontinue marriages until the matter was cleared up, so there no marriages at Christ Church between 23rd April 1856 and 5th February 1859. Because of the doubtful legality of marriages which had taken place in the church prior to April 1856, a Private Bill was passed in the Commons and received the Royal Assent on the 10th August 1859 which had the effect of confirming all those marriages as if they had been conducted at a chapel within the parish of Stranton.

These marriages are full of useful genealogical detail, as are most post-1837 marriages. For example:

• 10 Aug 1854 Peter Campbell (bachelor, mariner), age 22, of Alfred St., son of Patrick Campbell (grocer) married Hannah Hunter (spinster), age 20, of Victoria Terr., daughter of Joseph Hunter (shoemaker), married by banns
  Witnesses: Thomas Lowes, Rebecca Smith
  [Note: Groom and bride both signed their names.]

1,381 baptisms from the start of the register in March 1854 to the end of April 1862

There were no baptisms here from mid-March 1857 to mid-Jan 1859, due to a dispute between the church’s patron Ralph Ward Jackson and its incumbent John Hart Burgess over the legality of the formation of Christ Church. Baptisms during this period were supposed to have been carried out at the parish church in Stranton.

Additional information from the Port Cities site:

• history of Christ Church and the dispute between Jackson & Burgess
• biography of Ralph Ward Jackson, founder of West Hartlepool