Kirkwhelpington Northumberland Family History Guide

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Kirkwhelpington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland.

Other places in the parish include: Westharle, West Whelpington, West Harle, Littleharle, Little Harle, Great Bavington, Fawns, Crookhouse, Crookdean, Crogdean, Coldwell, Catcherside, and Capheaton.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1679
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1760

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Kirkwhelpington Parish Registers

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.

Kirkwhelpington Bishops Transcripts 1748-1853

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KIRKWHELPINGTON, a village, a township, and a sub-district in Bellingham district, and a parish partly also in Castle-Ward district, Northumberland. The Village stands on a cliff above the river Wansbeck, 1 mile N of Knowes-Gate r. station, and 10 E by N of Bellingham; contains a good specimen of the smaller peel towers; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post-office, under Newcastle-on-Tyne. The township comprises 2, 778 acres. Pop, 190. Houses, 43.

The parish contains the township of Kirkwhelpington, West Whelpington, Crogdean, West Harle, Great Bavington, Catcherside, Coldwell, Fawns, and Little Harle in Bellingham district, and the township of Capheaton in Castle-Ward district. Acres, 13, 351. Real property, £6, 825. Pop., 644. Houses, 131. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Duke of Northumberland. Most of the land is pasture. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £288. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower.

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

Administration

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