Kirkhaugh Northumberland Family History Guide

Kirkhaugh is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1810
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1760

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KIRKHAUGH, a parish in Haltwhistle district, Northumberland; on the South Tyne river, the Maiden way, and the Alston railway, adjacent to Cumberland, 2 miles SSE of Slaggyford r. station, and 2½ NW by N of Alston. Post town, Alston, under Carlisle. Acres, 6, 665. Real property, £1, 472. Pop., 223. Houses, 48. The property is subdivided.

The manor belongs to Greenwich Hospital. Much of the land is moor and mountain. Traces of a Roman station, occupying nearly 9 acres, and defended on the W side by ten breast works and trenches, are at Castle-Nook; and three Roman altars and fragments of a colossal statue have been found. Camden says that an inscription was erected here, and a palace built, in honour of the Emperor Antoninus, in 213, by the third cohort of the Nervii.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £70. Patron, R. W. Saunder, Esq. The church is good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northumberland, Kirkhaugh – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Pre-1851 tombstone inscriptions in Kirkhaugh Parish churchyard, Northumberland
Author: Mason, D.; Northumberland & Durham Family History Society

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

England, Northumberland, Kirkhaugh – Church records ( 6 )
England, Northumberland, Kirkhaugh, bishop’s transcripts, 1760-1844
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkhaugh (Northumberland); Durham University Library

England, Northumberland, Kirkhaugh, parish chest and poor law records, 1766-1838
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkhaugh (Northumberland); Northumberland Archives Service (Ashington, Northumberland)

England, Northumberland, Kirkhaugh, parish registers, 1810-1919
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkhaugh (Northumberland); Northumberland Archives Service (Ashington, Northumberland)

Parish chest records of Kirkhaugh, 1766-1848
Author: Kirkhaugh (Northumberland)

Parish registers for Kirkhaugh, 1810-1958
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkhaugh (Northumberland)

Parish registers, 1648-1824 of Horton, Blyth, Blanchland, Kirkhaugh and Rothbury parishes monumental inscriptions: Kirkhaugh parish, christenings, marriages and burials, 1760-1824: Rothbury parish, monumental inscriptions
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Horton (Northumberland)

England, Northumberland, Kirkhaugh – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England

Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, marriages, 1761-1837
Author: Rounce, W. E.

England, Northumberland, Kirkhaugh – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
England, Northumberland, Kirkhaugh, parish chest and poor law records, 1766-1838
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkhaugh (Northumberland); Northumberland Archives Service (Ashington, Northumberland)

Parish chest records of Kirkhaugh, 1766-1848
Author: Kirkhaugh (Northumberland)

Administration

  • County: Northumberland
  • Civil Registration District: Haltwhistle
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Durham
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – Corbridge, Post 1844 – Bellingham
  • Poor Law Union: Haltwhistle
  • Hundred: Tynedale Ward
  • Province: York