Whittonstall Northumberland Family History Guide

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Whittonstall is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northumberland, created in 1774 from a chapelry in Bywell St Peter Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1754
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1774

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Whittonstall 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.

Whittonstall Bishops Transcripts 1774-1871

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WHITTONSTALL, a township-chapelry in Bywell-St. Peter parish, Northumberland; 3¼ miles NNW of Shotley-Bridge, and 3½ SSW of Stocksfield r. station. Post town, Stocksfield, Northumberland. Acres, 1,968. Pop., 219. Houses, 39. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £45. Patrons, the Trustees of Lord Crewe. The church was built in 1832.

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: Corbridge
  • Poor Law Union: Hexham
  • Hundred: Tynedale Ward
  • Province: York