Warden Northumberland Family History Guide

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Warden is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland. Newbrough and Haydon are chapelries of Warden.

Other places in the parish include: Whinnetley, Walwick, Nether Warden, Morralee, Lipwood, High Warden and Walwick Grange, Four Stones, Elrington, Brokenheugh, and Allerwash.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1695
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1769

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Warden 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.

Warden Bishops Transcripts 1769-1878

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WARDEN, a parish in Hexham district, Northumberland; at the confluence of the rivers North Tyne and South Tyne, and near Fourstones r. station, 3¼ miles WNW of Hexham. Post town, Hexham. Acres, 3,122. Real property, £4,679; of which £103 are in mines. Pop., 716. Houses, 127. The property is subdivided. Lime and coal are worked; and there is a paper-mill. A circular camp is at High W.; and a petrifying well is near the North Tyne. The living is a vicarage, united with Newbrough and Haydon-Bridge, in the diocese of Durham. The church is partly early English, partly of 1763 and 1805.

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