West Allen Northumberland Family History Guide

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West Allen is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northumberland, created in 1826 from a chapelry in Allendale Ecclesiastical Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Low West Allen and High West Allen.

Alternative names: Carrshield

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1823
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1823

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

See Allendale, Northumberland Family History Guide

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northumberland, Carrshields – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Carrshield burial ground, West Allen (Northumberland)

Monumental inscriptions in the graveyard at Carrshield, Northumberland
Author: Thirkell, Philip R. G.; Northumberland & Durham Family History Society

England, Northumberland, Carrshields – Church records ( 2 )
England, Northumberland, Carrshield, church record, 1823-1982
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Carrshields (Northumberland); Northumberland County Record Office (England)

Parish registers for Carrshields, 1823-1958
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Carrshields (Northumberland)

England, Northumberland, Carrshields – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Carrshield, Nhumb., Eng

England, Northumberland, Carrshields – Schools ( 1 )
School records of Carrshield School, 1877-1926
Author: Carrshield School (Carrshield, Northumberland)

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