875 marriages at Monkwearmouth St. Peter from 24 Jul 1831 to 1 July 1837. Witnesses not transcribed. We are working on earlier marriages.

Marriage bonds issued by the Durham Diocese 1704-1712 (1,028 bonds). There were no surviving bonds for the period 24 Mar 1704 – 25 Mar 1706 or 24 Mar 1708 – 29 Mar 1709.

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.

538 baptisms at South Shields St. Hilda’s in the year 1824

Replaced the burial indexes for Eggleston (1796-1851) and Forest & Frith (1846-1850), both in Teesdale district, with full details, so now those 467 burials are now instantly available.

1,264 baptisms from 1916 to 1960.

• Most baptisms include the birth date of the child.
• Residences mentioned include Alum Waters, Auton Stile, Bearpark, Belmont, Bowburn, Carrville, Coxhoe, Crossgate Moor, Daisy Hill, Durham City, Edmondsley, Framwellgate Moor, Freehold, Gilesgate Moor, Langley Park, Leamside, Malton Colliery, Nettlesworth, Nevilles Cross, New Brancepeth, New Durham, Pit House Lane, Pittington, Pity Me, Rainton Gate, Sacriston, Sherburn, Sherburn House, Ushaw Moor, West Rainton, Whinney Hill, and Witton Gilbert.

1,082 baptisms at Gateshead Fell St. John from the beginning of the register in Aug 1825 to the end of 1837. The register named residents of Ayton Banks, Bellevue, Blue Quarries, Carr Hill, Church Quarry, Felling, Gateshead, Gateshead Fell, Gosforth, High Felling, Johnsons Houses, Kells Lane, Low Fell, Mount Pleasant, Newcastle, Pelaw Main, Sheriff Hill, Windy Nook, and Wrekenton.

Replaced the burial index for Middleton-in-Teesdale (St. Mary the Virgin) with full details, so those 3,344 burials are now instantly available.

249 burials from mid-1864 to the end of 1866 at Gateshead Fell St. John

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.

Marriage bonds issued by the Durham Diocese 1694-1703 (1,078 bonds). There was only one bond in the period 18 Feb 1695 – 2 Mar 1697 and no surviving bonds for 25 Mar 1698 – 12 Jan 1700 or 24 Nov 1702 – 6 Mar 1703.

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.