Ulgham, Northumberland Family History Guide

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Ulgham is a chapelry of Morpeth Ancient Parish in Northumberland.

Other places in the parish include: Ulgham Grange and Stobswood.

Parish church: St. John the Baptist

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1602
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1760

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian

Adjacent Parishes

Ulgham 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.

Ulgham Bishops Transcripts 1760-1852

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ULGHAM, a parish, with a village, in Morpeth district, Northumberland; 2 miles S of Widdrington r. station, and 4¾ NNE of Morpeth. Post town, Morpeth. Acres, 3,615. Real property, £3,293. Pop., 362. Houses, 71. The manor belongs to the Earl of Carlisle. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Morpeth. The church was rebuilt in 1864. There is an endowed school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ULGHAM, a parochial chapelry, in the union, and E. division of the ward, of Morpeth, N. division of Northumberland, 5 miles (N. E. by N.) from Morpeth; containing 368 inhabitants. This place, in the charter of Henry I. granting right of free chase on it to the Merlay family, is called Elchamp: it was formerly, in part, the property of Newminster Abbey; and the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem also held some lands here.

The chapelry is situated on the road from Morpeth to Warkworth, by Widdrington; and comprises about 3409 acres, the property of Earl Grey and the Earl of Carlisle. The soil in some parts, especially about the village, is gravelly and good, but a considerable portion is stiff and clayey, which, however, under proper management, is suitable to the growth of wheat and oats, alternated with clover and fallow.

Some coal-mines were possessed here by Queen Elizabeth in 1600; coal is still found in the chapelry, on the bank of the river Line, and was wrought not very long since in the immediate vicinity. There is also a quarry of freestone. According to vulgar tradition, a market was once held at Ulgham, and the stump of an ancient cross, said to have been connected with a market, still remains in the centre of the village.

The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Morpeth: the tithes have been commuted for £307. The church is a plain modern edifice of stone, dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Maps

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Administration

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