Lowick Northumberland Family History Guide

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Lowick is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northumberland, created in 1732 from a chapelry in Holy Island Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Laverick Law, Holburn, Holborn, Bowsdon, Bowsden, and Barmoor.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1718
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1760

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Church in England, and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Lowick 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.

Lowick Bishops Transcripts 1760-1841

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LOWICK, a village and a parish in Glendale district, Northumberland. The village stands 4 miles WSW of Beal r. station, and 7 NW of Belford; is a long and Straggling place, of late years greatly improved; and has a post-office under Beal, Northumberland.

The parish contains also the villages of Barmoor, Bowsdon, and Holburn, and the hamlet of Laverick-Law. Acres, 12,526. Real property, £13,192; of which £1,090 are in mines, and £1,600 in quarries. Pop., 1,946. Houses, 385. The property is divided among a few.

Barmoor Castle is a chief residence. Coal-mining, stone-quarrying, lime-burning, and the making of bricks and drainpipes are carried on. Numerous interesting fossils have been found in the limestone; and a collection of them has been deposited in the Woodwardian museum in Cambridge.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church was rebuilt towards the end of last century; and has a good E window, and a memorial window to the Gregson family. There are chapels for Presbyterians, Primitive Methodists, and Roman Catholics, a national school, and charities £4.

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