A complete package of 10+ years of Penshaw records:

• 847 baptisms 1774-1786
• 190 marriages 1774-1784
• 436 burials 1774-1784
• These were transcribed from the Bishop’s Transcript with some cross-checking against the parish register (during which the BT was found to be extremely reliable).

Samples:

• marriage – 24 Oct 1784 Henry Holt married Elizabeth Jackson, both of this chapelry, by banns
• baptism – 23 Oct 1785 Elizabeth Holt, of Biddick, daughter of Henry Holt & Elizabeth
• burials – 2 Dec 1784 Barbara Shiels, of Penshaw, daughter of Walton Shiels

Penshaw is not covered by the IGI, so this collection should be quite useful to researchers with ancestors in this area, which covers Biddick, Burnmoor, Fence Houses, Hasting Hill, Penshaw, Offerton, Runn Head, Ship Haugh, Wapping, West Herrington, and Wharton’s Row, and bits of surrounding parishes.

There was one abode I could not clearly read – it looks like Slutt Hall, but could just as easily be Slull, Slall, Sluth, or similar. Does anybody know its true name? It was inhabited in the 1781-83 by James & Mary Richardson and in 1784 by John & Mary Cook.