Wallsend Northumberland Family History Guide

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Wallsend is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northumberland, created in 1807 from a chapelry in Jarrow Ancient Parish in the county of Durham.

Other places in the parish include: Willington and Howden-Pans.

Alternative names: Walls-End

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1669
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1769

Nonconformists include: Christians, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Protestant Dissenters, United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Wallsend 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.

Wallsend Bishops Transcripts 1813-1833

Wallsend Bishops Transcripts 1833-1857

Wallsend Bishops Transcripts 1861-1871

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WALLSEND, a township and a parish in Tynemouth district, Northumberland. The township lies on the river Tyne and on the Newcastle and Tynemonth railway, at the E end of the Roman wall, 3½ miles ENE of Newcastle. It took its name from its position at the end of the wall; contained the Roman Segedunum, where Roman pottery, inscriptions, coins, an altar to Jupiter, and other Roman relics have been found.

It became noted, in last century, for coal-workings of prime quality, which yielded an average profit of £20,000 annually for twenty years, but became unprofitable and were abandoned in 1853; contains a village of its own name; and has a post-office under Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a r. station, a church of 1809, U. Presbyterian and Methodist chapels, a free school, two blast furnaces, forge-works, lead and copper smelting-works, and two chemical manufactories. Pop. in 1851, 2,161; in 1861, 2,371. Houses, 501.

The parish includes two other townships; forms a sub-district; and comprises 2,579 acres of land and 208 of water. Real property, £17,335; of which £600 are in ironworks. Pop. in 1851, 5,721; in 1861, 6,715. Houses, 1,079. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of D. The p. curacies of Willington and Howdon-Pans are separate benefices. The painter Martin was a native.

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: Tynemouth
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Durham
  • Rural Deanery: Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Poor Law Union: Tynemouth
  • Hundred: Castle Ward
  • Province: York