North Sunderland Northumberland Family History Guide

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North Sunderland is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northumberland, created in 1843 from Bamburgh Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1833
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1842

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Scotland/Scottish Presbyterian, Presbyterian Church in England, United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

North Sunderland 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.

North Sunderland Bishops Transcripts 1842-1844

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SUNDERLAND (North), a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Bambrough parish, Northumberland. The village stands on the coast, 4 miles ENE of Chathill r. station, and 7 ESE of Belford; is a small sea-port, a lifeboat station, and a seat of fisheries; and has a post-office under Chathill. The township comprises 1,097 acres. Pop. in 1851, 1,208; in 1861, 1,008. Houses, 231. The decrease of pop. was caused by the stoppage of lime-works.

The chapelry was constituted in 1843. Pop., 1,178. Houses, 265. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £200. Patrons, the Trustees of Bishop Lord Crewe. The church was built in 1833. There are chapels for English Presbyterians and United Presbyterians.

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