2,939 marriage bonds issued by the Durham Diocese 1801-1805. The Diocese of Durham covered all of County Durham and parts of Northumberland and North Yorkshire.

Marriage bonds often provide ages, occupations, and place of residence for the bride and groom during a period when marriage registers did not provide that information. 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. For example:

9 Sep 1805 Joseph Wanlace, age 28, master-mariner of All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, obtained a licence to marry Jane Pinder, age 26, of North Shields
Surety: Thomas Woodhouse, deputy parish clerk of Gateshead

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.