Ebchester Durham Family History Guide

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Ebchester is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Durham, created in 1743 from a chapelry in Lanchester Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1619
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1766

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Ebchester Parish Registers

Baptism Records

Ebchester Baptisms 1619-1901

Marriage and Banns Records

Ebchester Marriages 1619-1901

Death and Burial Records

Ebchester Burials 1766-1871

Ebchester, St. Ebba Burials 1619-1812

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.

Ebchester Bishops Transcripts 1766-1871

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EBCHESTER, a township and a chapelry in Lanchester parish, Durham. The township lies on Watling-street, the Consett railway, and the river Derwent, at the boundary with Northumberland, 11½ miles SW by W of Gateshead; and has a post-office under Gateshead and a railway station. Acres, 550. Real property, £4, 458; of which £2, 530 are in mines, and £26 in quarries. Pop., 697. Houses, 109. The property is sub-divided. A monastery was founded here before 660, by Ebba, afterwards abbess of Coldingham, and was destroyed by the Danes. Ebchester was known as the Derventio of the Notitia, and afterwards as Vindomara; and it retains traces of Watling-street.

The chapelry is of less extent than the township. Pop., 537. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Durham. Value, £200. Patron, not reported. The church stands within an ancient camp, where many Roman remains have been found; and was recently in disrepair. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.

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: Lanchester
  • Hundred: Chester Ward
  • Province: York