Penshaw All Saints (not in the IGI, not searchable anywhere else online that we know of !)

• 840 baptisms 1787-1797
• 258 marriages 1785-1796
• 642 burials 1785-1797

In Oct 1797, the Penshaw clergy members started making an attempt to comply with Bishop Barrington’s edict concerning the recording of mother’s maiden names and nativity of parents. The information is sporadic at first - sometimes it’s there, sometimes not, sometimes they recorded the current residence instead of the birthplace of the father, and sometimes you can’t tell for sure which they meant! Before this time, “son of Walton Shields of Penshaw” meant the father lived at Penshaw currently. Later, the phrase “Walton Shields native of this chapelry” would be used, making it clearer, but in this transition period, the usage is mixed. We have taken “of Penshaw” to mean the current place of residence and “native of Penshaw” to mean, obviously, the birthplace of the parent. It is possible that in some cases what appears to be the current residence may in fact be the birthplace of the father.