Sighill Northumberland Family History Guide

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Sighill, Sedgehill or Seghill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northumberland, created in 1846 from Earsdon Ecclesiastical Parish and Cramlington Ecclesiastical Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Seaton Delaval.

Alternative names: Sedgehill, Seghill

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1846
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Sighill 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.

Seghill Bishops Transcripts 1850-1877

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SEGHILL, or Sedgehill, a village and a township in Earsdon parish, and a chapelry partly also in St. Andrew parish, Northumberland. The village stands near the Blythe and Tyne railway, 6½ miles NNE of Newcastle; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Cramlington, Northumberland. The township comprises 1,403 acres. Pop., 1,801. Houses, 350. The manor belonged anciently to Tynemouth priory; went to the Mitfords, who built a castle here; and passed, through the Allgoods and others, to the Blakes.

The chapelry includes also part of Seaton-Delaval and Cramlington townships, and was constituted in 1846. Pop., 4,588. Houses, 920. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1848. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a Church school.

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

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