Dalton le Dale Durham Family History Guide

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Dalton le Dale is an Ancient Parish in the county of Durham.

Other places in the parish include: Coldhesledon, Hesledon, East Murton, East Morton, Murton, Cold Hesleton, Cold Hesledon, and Cold Heselton.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1763

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Dalton le Dale Parish Registers

Baptism Records

Dalton le Dale Baptisms 1653 1844

Dalton le Dale Baptisms 1653 1888

Marriage and Banns Records

Dalton le Dale Marriages 1653-1867

Dalton-le-Dale Marriages 1653-1907

Death and Burial Records

Dalton le Dale Burials 1653-1844

Dalton Le Dale, St. Andrew Burials 1653-1812

Bishops Transcripts

Explore the Bishops’ Transcripts for the Diocese of Durham (1639–1919) – This collection offers parish register copies submitted annually to the Bishop, covering baptisms, marriages, and burials across Durham, Northumberland, and parts of Yorkshire and Cumberland. Ideal for tracing ancestors when original registers are missing or incomplete.

Dalton le Dale Bishops Transcripts 1763-1867

Dalton le Dale Strays

The people listed below have been found in the records of other parishes but are recorded as being from Dalton le Dale.

1803. John Midcalf, of Dalton le dale P., and Sarah Briggs, of this P., Nov. 20. – Banns were called in Seaham Church, but were not married there.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish History

Dalton le Dale

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Dalton-le-Dale, a township and a parish in Durham. The township lies near the coast, 1 mile NE by E of Murton station on the N.E.R., and 6½ S of Sunderland. Acreage, 812; population, 134. The parish contains the townships of Dalton-le-Dale, East Murton, and Coldhesledon. Post town, Sunderland; money order and telegraph office, Murton Colliery. Population, 5868.

The living is a vicarage and rectory in the diocese of Durham; net value, £447 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The present parish church, the Holy Trinity, is in the township of Murton. The original church, St Andrew’s, in Dalton-le-Dale township, is used as a chapel of ease.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DALTON-LE-DALE, a township and a parish in Easington district, Durham. The township lies near the coast, 1¾ mile NE by E of Murton r. station, and 6¼ S of Sunderland. Acres, 797. Real property, £776. Pop., 102. Houses, 20.

The parish contains also the townships of Dawdon, Cold Hesleton, and East Morton; and its post town is Seaham, under Sunderland. Acres, 4, 281; of which 195 are water. Real property, £53, 902; of which £24, 747 are in mines, and £11, 378 in railways. Pop., 8, 432. Houses, 1, 251. The property is sub-divided. 

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £201. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church is chiefly early English, but has a Norman door; and it contains a round font with quatrefoiled panels, and is in good condition. The p. curacy of Seaham-Harbour is a separate benefice. Charities, £50.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

East Murton

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Murton, East, a township in Dalton-le-Dale parish, Durham, with a station, called Murton, on the Hartlepool and Sunderland railway, 8 miles ENE of Durham. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office, of the name of Murton Colliery, under Sunderland. Acreage, 1495; population, 5052. Coal is largely worked and coked.

The parish church of Holy Trinity, erected in 1877, is in this township. It consists of chancel, nave, transepts, S porch, and a small bell-turret, with spire. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Bible Christian chapels, a miners’ hall, a literary institute, colliery schools, and a police station.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MORTON (EAST), or EAST MURTON, a township in Dalton-le-Dale parish, Durhamshire; on the Hartlepool and Sunderland railway, 8 miles ENE of Durham. Acres, 1,466. Real property, £3,615; of which £600 are in the railway. Pop. in 1851, 1,387; in 1861, 2,104. Houses, 379. Most of the property belongs to Shipperdson of Piddinghall. Coal is worked and coked. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.

Crime & Punishment

The following people from Dalton le Dale have been found in the records of the early 1900s of Criminals arrested at North Shields in Tynemouth Northumberland. The link will take you to the page on this site that lists details of their crimes and see what they looked like.

Charlotte Branney from Murton Colliery Arrested for Larceny

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Maps

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Administration

  • County: Durham
  • Civil Registration District: Easington
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Durham
  • Rural Deanery: Easington
  • Poor Law Union: Easington
  • Hundred: Easington Ward
  • Province: York