St John Lee Northumberland Family History Guide

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St John Lee is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland.

Other places in the parish include: Portgate, Hallington, Fallowfield, Cocklaw, Anick Grange, Anick, Acomb, West Acomb, Wall, Sandoe, and Sandhoe.

Alternative names: Lee St John

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1664
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1741

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

St John Lee 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.

St John Lee Bishops Transcripts 1837-1858

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

JOHN-LEE (ST.), a parish in Hexham district, Northumberland; on the river Tyne, the Border Counties railway, and the Roman wall, immediately N of Hexham. It adjoins Hexham bridge, in the neighbourhood of Hexham r. station; it contains Acomb township, with a village 1¼ mile NNW of that bridge, and with a post-office under Hexham; and it contains also the townships of Portgate, Sandhoe, Anick, Anick-Grange, Fallowfield, Cocklaw, Bingfield, Hallington, and Wall, the last of which has a station on the Border Counties railway.

Acres, 15, 090. Real property, £19, 264; of which £1, 099 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2, 073; in 1861, 2, 254. Houses, 401. The increase of pop. was chiefly in Acomb township, and arose from the extension of lead mines, and the opening of a new colliery. The property is not much divided.

The manor belongs to W. B. Beaumont, Esq. Lee Hall belonged to the Jarins and the Coatesworths, and passed to the Charltons. Hermitage is the seat of Mrs. Allgood.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £280. Patron, W. B. Beaumont, Esq. The church is in Acomb township stands on the wooded brow of an extensive tableau, overlooking the Tyne valley; has a fine spire, figuring conspicuously in the beautiful landscape around Hexham; is ancient, and very good; and occupies the site of an oratory of St. John of Beverley, which used to be visited annually by the monks of Hexham in solemn procession. There are chapels of ease at Wall and Bingfield, a Wesleyan chapel at Acomb, and an endowed school with £12 a year.

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

Maps

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Administration

  • County: Northumberland
  • Civil Registration District: Hexham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Archbishop of York in Hexham and Hexhamshire
  • Diocese: Durham
  • Rural Deanery: Hexham
  • Poor Law Union: Hexham
  • Hundred: Tynedale Ward
  • Province: York