Durham St Margaret Durham Family History Guide

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Durham St Margaret is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Durham, created in 1748 from a chapelry in Durham St Oswald Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Crossgate and Framwellgate.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1765

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Durham St Margaret Parish Registers

Baptism Records

Durham Baptisms 1560-1850

Durham, St Margaret Baptisms 1742-1919

Marriage and Banns Records

Durham Marriages 1521-1934

Durham, St Margaret Marriages 1558-1898

Durham, St Margaret Marriages 1837-1900

Death and Burial Records

Durham, St Margaret Burials 1765-1918

Durham, St. Margaret Burials 1653-1835

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.

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1740-1836

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1762-1841

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1765-1919

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1773-1869

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1787-1838

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1813-1848

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1850-1919

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1863-1893

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1878

Durham St Margaret Strays

The people listed below have been found in the records of other parishes but are recorded as being from Durham St Margaret.

1763. James Atkinson, of this P., and Frances Smith, Crossgate P., Durham, July 10. – Banns were called in Seaham Church, but were not married there.

Parish History

See also Durham, Durham Family History Guide

Crossgate

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CROSSGATE, a township in St. Oswald parish, Durham; partly in Durham city. It contains Durham work-house; and forms, with Framwellgate township, the parochial chapelry of St. Margaret. Acres, 454. Pop., 2, 591. Houses, 351.

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

Framwellgate

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FRAMWELLGATE, a township in Durham-St. Oswald parish, Durhamshire; on the W bank of the river Wear, partly within Durham city.

Acres, 3,467. Real property, £16,133; of which £4,600 are in mines, and £15 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 3,085; in 1861, 4,326. Houses, 741.

A Roman Catholic church, connected with a convent, was built in 1865.

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

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

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