Category: Durham

Durham Family History Guide

Durham Cathedral from Framwellgate bridge
Durham Cathedral from Framwellgate bridge, with figures to the foreground by Louise Rayner

Durham is bounded, North by Northumberland, East by the German Ocean, South by the river Tees, which divides it from Yorkshire, and West by Cumberland and Westmoreland. It is 35 miles long, and 34 miles broad. Rivers: the Tees, the Wear, and the Tyne. It is divided into four wards; Chester, Earlington, Easington and Stockton; with the two districts of Norhamshire and Islandshire. There are 9 Market-Towns. It is in the Province or York, in the Diocese of Durham, and in the Northern Circuit. It contains 1061 square miles, or 679,040 acres. Population in 1841, 324,284.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Parishes in Durham

A

  • Auckland St Andrew, Durham
  • Auckland St Anne, Durham
  • Auckland St Helen, Durham
  • Aycliffe, Durham

B

  • Barnard Castle, Durham
  • Belmont, Durham
  • Benfieldside, Durham
  • Billingham, Durham
  • Birtley, Durham
  • Bishop Middleham, Durham
  • Bishopton, Durham
  • Bishopwearmouth [St Michael and All Angels], Durham
  • Bishopwearmouth St Thomas, Durham
  • Boldon, Durham
  • Brancepeth, Durham
  • Byers Green, Durham

C

  • Carlton, Durham
  • Castle Eden, Durham
  • Chester le Street, Durham
  • Cockfield, Durham
  • Collierley, Durham
  • Coniscliffe, Durham
  • Coundon, Durham
  • Crook, Durham
  • Croxdale, Durham

D

  • Dalton le Dale, Durham
  • Darlington [St Cuthbert], Durham
  • Darlington Holy Trinity, Durham
  • Darlington St John, Durham
  • Denton, Durham
  • Deptford St Andrew, Durham
  • Dinsdale, Durham
  • Durham Castle and Precincts, Durham
  • Durham Cathedral, Durham
  • Durham College, Durham
  • Durham Magdalen Place, Durham
  • Durham St Giles, Durham
  • Durham St Margaret, Durham
  • Durham St Mary le Bow with St Mary the Less, Durham
  • Durham St Nicholas, Durham
  • Durham St Oswald, Durham

E

  • Easington, Durham
  • Ebchester, Durham
  • Edmondbyers, Durham
  • Egglescliffe, Durham
  • Eggleston, Durham
  • Elton, Durham
  • Elwick Hall, Durham
  • Embleton, Durham
  • Escomb, Durham
  • Esh, Durham
  • Etherley, Durham

F

  • Ferryhill, Durham

G

  • Gainford, Durham
  • Garmondsway Moor, Durham
  • Gateshead [St Mary], Durham
  • Gateshead Fell [St John], Durham
  • Great Stainton, Durham
  • Greatham, Durham
  • Grindon, Durham

H

  • Hamsterley, Durham
  • Hart, Durham
  • Hartlepool [St Hilda], Durham
  • Haughton le Skerne, Durham
  • Heatherycleugh, Durham
  • Heighington, Durham
  • Hetton le Hole, Durham
  • Heworth [St Mary], Durham
  • Heworth St Alban, Durham
  • Houghton le Spring, Durham
  • Hunstanworth, Durham
  • Hunwick, Durham
  • Hurworth, Durham

I

  • Ingleton, Durham

J

  • Jarrow, Durham

K

  • Kelloe, Durham

L

  • Lamesley, Durham
  • Lanchester, Durham
  • Land Common to Evenwood and Barony and West Auckland, Durham
  • Land Common to Lynesack and Softley, Hamsterley and South Bedburn, Durham
  • Long Newton, Durham
  • Lynesack, Durham

M

  • Medomsley, Durham
  • Merrington, Durham
  • Middleton St George, Durham
  • Middleton in Teesdale, Durham
  • Monk Hesleden, Durham
  • Monkwearmouth [St Peter], Durham
  • Monkwearmouth All Saints, Durham
  • Muggleswick, Durham

N

  • Norton, Durham

P

  • Pelton, Durham
  • Penshaw, Durham
  • Pittington, Durham

R

  • Rainton, Durham
  • Redmarshall, Durham
  • Ryhope, Durham
  • Ryton, Durham

S

  • Satley, Durham
  • Seaham, Durham
  • Seaham Harbour, Durham
  • Seaton Carew, Durham
  • Sedgefield, Durham
  • Shadforth, Durham
  • Sherburn House, Durham
  • Shildon, Durham
  • Shincliffe, Durham
  • Sockburn, Durham
  • Shields, South [St Hilda], Durham
  • South Shields Holy Trinity, Durham
  • South Shields St Stephen, Durham
  • Southwick, Durham
  • Staindrop, Durham
  • Stanhope, Durham
  • Stella, Durham
  • Stillington, Durham
  • Stockton upon Tees [St Thomas], Durham
  • Stockton upon Tees Holy Trinity, Durham
  • Stranton, Durham
  • Sunderland, Durham
  • Sunderland St John, Durham

T

  • Tanfield, Durham
  • Thornley, Durham
  • Thornley St Bartholomew, Durham
  • Trimdon, Durham

U

  • Usworth, Durham

W

  • Washington, Durham
  • Weardale St John, Durham
  • Westoe, Durham
  • Whickham, Durham
  • Whitburn, Durham
  • Whitwell House, Durham
  • Whitworth, Durham
  • Whorlton, Durham
  • Wingate Grange, Durham
  • Winlaton, Durham
  • Winston, Durham
  • Witton Gilbert with Kimblesworth, Durham
  • Witton le Wear, Durham
  • Wolsingham, Durham
  • Wolviston, Durham

Durham

Barnard Castle, Durham Family History Guide

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Status: Ecclesiastical Parish Parish church: Parish registers begin: Parish registers: 1609 Bishop’s Transcripts: 1762 Nonconformists include: Methodist, Roman Catholic, Independent/Congregational, Society of Friends/Quaker, Unitarian Parishes adjacent to Barnard Castle Cockfield Eggleston Startforth Staindrop Gainford Historical Descriptions The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870 BARNARD-CASTLE, a town, a township, a chapelry, and a subdistrict, in the district of …

Durham

Aycliffe, Durham Family History Guide

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Aycliffe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Durham. Other places in the parish include: Nunstainton, Ricknall, Preston le Skerne, Woodham, Ketton, Great Aycliffe, and Brafferton. Status: Ancient Parish Parish church: St Andrew Parish registers begin: Parish registers: 1560 Bishop’s Transcripts: 1762 Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist …

Durham

Chester le Street Durham Family History Guide

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Chester le Street is an Ancient Parish in the county of Durham. Other places in the parish include: Holmside (part), Stanley, Plawsworth, Little Lumley, Waldridge, Hedley Lambton, Great Lumley, Edmonsley, and Edmondsley. Status: Ancient Parish Parish church: Parish registers begin: Parish registers: 1582 Bishop’s Transcripts: 1765 Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, …

Durham

Birtley Durham Family History Guide

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Birtley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Durham, created in 1850 from Chester le Street Parish. Other places in the parish include: Harraton. Parish church: Parish registers begin: 1850 Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist. Parishes adjacent to Birtley Penshaw Washington Houghton le Spring Pelton …