Whitley (near Hexham) Northumberland Family History Guide

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Whitley (near Hexham) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northumberland, created in 1763 from a chapelry in Hexham Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Whitley Chapel

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1764
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1765

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Whitley 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.

Whitley Bishops Transcripts 1843-1888

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WHITLEY, a chapelry in Hexham district, Northumberland; on Devils water, 5 miles S of Hexham r. station. Post town, Hexham. Pop., 419. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham. Value, £124. Patron, W. B. Beaumont, Esq.

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

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