Ryhope Durham Family History Guide

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Ryhope is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Durham, created in 1829 from a chapelry in Bishopwearmouth St Michael and All Angels Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Ryhope Colliery, Tunstall, and Burdon.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1827
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1827

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Ryhope Parish Registers

Baptism Records

Ryhope Baptisms 1827-1903

Marriage and Banns Records

Ryhope Marriages 1854-1944

Death and Burial Records

Ryhope Burials 1828-1937

Ryhope, St Paul Burials 1829-1937

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.

Ryhope Bishops Transcripts 1827-1859

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RYHOPE, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Bishop-Wearmouth parish, Durham. The village stands on the coast, and on the Hartlepool and Sunderland railway, 2½ miles S by E of Sunderland; was anciently called Refhope; is a sea-bathing resort; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Sunderland.

The township contains also the village of Ryhope-Colliery, about a mile to the W; and comprises 1,569 acres of land, and 307 of water. Real property, £6,555; of which £298 are in quarries, and £1,383 in railway s. Pop. in 1851, 475; in 1861, 2,082. Houses, 310. The manor belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. A dene, 2 miles long, traversed by a rushing stream, goes down to the village.

The chapelry was constituted in 1854. Pop. in 1861, 2,271. Houses, 343. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £400. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church was built in 1826; and a Wesleyan chapel was built in 1865. There is a parochial school.

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