Bywell St Peter, Northumberland Family History Guide

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Bywell St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland.

Other places in the parish include: Stelling, Newton Hall, Newton, Newlands, Millshield, High Fotherley, High Fortherley, Healy, Healey, Espershiels, Espershields with Millshield, Espershields, East Acomb, Bywell, Broomley, Bearl, and Apperley.

Status: Ancient Parish

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1663
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1762

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist, Roman Catholic

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Bywell St Peter

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BYWELL-ST. PETER, a township and a parish in Hexham district, Northumberland. The township includes part of Bywell village. Pop., 94. Houses, 20.

The parish includes also the townships of Whittonstall, Newlands, Espershields, Healy, High Fortherley, Broomley, Apperley, Stelling, Newton, and Newton Hall; extends southward to the river Derwent at the boundary with Durham; and is nearly 8 miles long and 5 miles broad. Post Town, Stocksfield, Northumberland. Acres. 17,784. Real property, £9,296. Pop., 1,574. Houses, 288. The property is divided among a few. Much of the land in the south is high and poor.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church has a square tower, and is good. The p. curacy of Whittonstall is a separate charge.

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

East Acomb

Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom Capper 1808

Acomb East, a small hamlet belonging to the parish of Bywell, St. Peter’s, Tindal ward, Northumberland, 3 miles from Corbridge, and 275 from London; containing only 4 houses and 23 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom. Benjamin Pitts Capper. 1808.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northumberland, Bywell-St. Peter – Cemeteries ( 3 )
England, Northumberland, Bywell, St. Peter’s monumental inscriptions, 1757-1844
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bywell-St. Peter (Northumberland); Northumberland County Record Office (England)

Monumental inscriptions, Bywell-St. Peter and Blanchland, St. Mary, Northumberland, England

Pre-1851 tombstone inscriptions at Bywell St. Peter Parish Church, Northumberland
Author: Mason, D.; Readdie, J. A.; Northumberland & Durham Family History Society

England, Northumberland, Bywell-St. Peter – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Bywell, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Northumberland, Bywell-St. Peter – Church records ( 6 )
Births and baptisms, 1795-1840
Author: Catholic Church. Minster Acres Chapel (Northumberlandshire)

England, Northumberland, Bywell, St. Peter’s Church, bishop’s transcripts, 1762-1874
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bywell-St. Peter (Northumberland); Durham University Library

England, Northumberland, Bywell-St. Peter, church records

England, Northumberland, Whittonstall, bishop’s transcripts, 1774-1871
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Whittonstall (Northumberland); Durham University Library

Parish register transcripts, 1668-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bywell-St. Andrew (Northumberland); Church of England. Parish Church of Bywell-St. Peter (Northumberland)

Parish registers for Bywell-St. Peter, 1663-1952
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bywell-St. Peter (Northumberland); Northumberland Archives Service (Ashington, Northumberland)

England, Northumberland, Bywell-St. Peter – Church records – Indexes ( 5 )
Bywell St Andrew, Bywell St Peter & Whittonstall, baptisms marriages & burials, 1813-1839
Author: Yellowley, Carol; Bell, George

Bywell St. Andrew, Bywell St. Peter & Whittonstall, Healey & Newton Hall, baptisms, marriages and burials, 1840-1901
Author: Yellowley, Carol; Bell, George; Church of England. Chapelry of Whittonstall (Northumberland); Church of England. Parish Church of Bywell-St. Peter (Northumberland); Church of England. Parish Church of Bywell-St. Andrew (Northumberland)

Computer printout of Bywell St. Peter, Minsteracres Roman Catholic, Northumbeeland, England

Computer printout of Bywell St. Peter, Northumberland, England

Marriages: Escomb, 1543-1837; Slaley, 1722-1837; Bywell-St. Peter, 1663-1837; Bywell-St. Andrew, 1685-1837
Author: Rounce, W. E.; Church of England. Chapelry of Escomb (Durham); Church of England. Parish Church of Slaley (Northumberland); Church of England. Parish Church of Bywell-St. Andrew (Northumberland); Church of England. Parish Church of Bywell-St. Peter (Northumberland)

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Administration

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