Latest Durham Records Online additions

Latest releases on Durham Records Online (http://durhamrecordsonline.com):

Durham St. Giles 1584-1700
At St. Giles in the city of Durham, from the beginning of the first register in 1584 to the end of 1700:
1,411 baptisms
594 marrages
1,602 burials


Marley Pots Cemetery (Southwick) 1901-1919
5,062 burials at Marley Pots Cemetery in Southwick (Sunderland district), from 7 Nov 1901 where our previous set left off, to the end of 1919.


1851 Gateshead census
14,404 people in the 1851 census of Gateshead added to our census collection. This is all of piece 2403 (446 folios), containing Barlow, Blaydon, Bleachgreen, Chopwell, Coalburns, Crawcrook, Derwent Haugh, Dunston, Fellside, Garesfield, Greenside, Hedgefield, High Spen, Marley Hill, Ryton, Shibdon, Star Gate, Stella, Swalwell, Teams, Whickham, and Winlaton.


Pittington burials 1574-1699
At Pittington St. Laurence in Durham district, we have reviewed & corrected our existing burial set prior to 1700 and added some new ones.

Coming Soon:
Sherburn Hospital baptisms & burials
Mere Knolls (Fulwell, Sunderland) burials 1940-1968
Newcastle St. John baptisms & burials
Jarrow marriage witnesses
Further down the queue: Newburn, Southwick baptisms, Darlington Friends Burial Ground, more Methodist records, Durham St. Nicholas baptisms & marriages 1540-1700, Slaley, Newcastle St Andrew, Heddon on the Wall, Auckland St. Andrew baptisms 1559-1653.

(With thanks to Durham Records Online)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. My Pinterest account is at https://www.pinterest.com/chrismpaton/.

Durham Records Online additions

New records available at Durham Records Online (www.durhamrecordsonline.com):

Mere Knolls Western Extension burials 1921-1939
9,390 burials in the Western Extension of Mere Knolls Cemetery in Fulwell, Sunderland, County Durham, spanning 1921-1939.

Hartlepool St. Hilda monument inscriptions
Approximately 467 monument inscriptions in the churchyard of Hartlepool St. Hilda, based on the state of the churchyard in 1952, with death dates running from 1746 to 1925.

St. John Lee marriages 1813-1837
297 marriages at St. John Lee in Hexham district, Northumberland, from the beginning of 1813 to the end of 1837

Pittington baptisms 1574-1650 & marriages 1574-1812 updated
Alerted by some recently-discovered errors and omissions, we went over our earliest Pittington St. Laurence (Durham district) baptisms and marriages, rechecking them all against the parish registers. We checked 920 baptisms covering 1574-1650 and 1,085 marriages covering 1574-1812. These are some of our oldest transcripts, and we have made numerous corrections. Abodes and 482 marriage witnesses, which started appearing in 1754, were added. Some marriages were converted to marriage banns, as the banns were called at Pittington but the marriage did not actually occur there.

We discovered 96 baptisms that had been missed, with the bulk of these (84) between 1611 and 1620. We also realized we were missing all 83 marriages between 1655 and 1678, plus we found an additional 16 missing marriages sprinkled across various years. So if you're looking for somebody who might have been born or married at Pittington, and you previously couldn't find them, you might want to run another search.

Coming Soon:
1851 Gateshead census
Sherburn Hospital baptisms & burials
Newcastle St. John baptisms & burials

Further down the queue: Newburn, Southwick baptisms, Darlington Friends Burial Ground, more Methodist records, Durham St. Nicholas baptisms & marriages 1540-1700, Durham St. Giles baptisms & marriages 1584-1700, Slaley, Mere Knolls 1940+, Newcastle St Andrew, Heddon on the Wall

(With thanks to Durham Records Online)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. My Pinterest account is at https://www.pinterest.com/chrismpaton/.

Latest additions to Durham Records Online

What's new at Durham Records Online (www.durhamrecordsonline.com):

Durham St. Margaret baptisms, marriages, burials: 1558-1700
4,407 baptisms
1,118 marriages
4,586 burials

Barnard Castle Wesleyan Methodist Circuit registers 
1,174 baptisms from 1854 to 1894. These come from 3 registers with overlapping time frames. This Methodist circuit covered the County Durham and Yorkshire towns of Barnard Castle, Barningham, Bowes, Cotherstone, Cleatlam, Eggleston, Ingleton, Lunedale, Mickleton, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Newbiggin, Romaldkirk, Shildon, Staindrop, and Woodland.

Sunderland Cemetery burials 1935-1947
6,561 burials at Sunderland Cemetery (Stockton Rd, Grangetown, Sunderland) covering 1935 through 11 Feb 1947. As is usual for this cemetery, most records include a parent, spouse, or occupation, and some list the cause of death. A number of people buried here were killed in the German bombings of Sunderland during WWII, and are usually noted as "civilian war death”.

Coming Soon:
Tynemouth burials 1851 and baptisms 1850-52
Mere Knolls Cemetery (Western Extension) 1905-1939
Ferryhill baptisms 1843-64 and burials 1846-64
early Witton-le-Wear records
1851 Gateshead census

Further down the queue: 
Sherburn Hospital baptisms, Durham St. Nicholas marriages, Southwick baptisms, Darlington Friends Burial Ground, early Great Stainton

(With thanks to Durham Records Online)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. My Pinterest account is at https://www.pinterest.com/chrismpaton/.

Durham Records Online update

What's New at Durham Records Online (www.durhamrecordsonline.com:

We hope everyone had a cozy and pleasant Christmas (or alternative) holiday. What better time to work on your family history?

Egglescliffe baptisms, marriages, & burials: 1539-1751

We are pleased to present the earliest records at Egglescliffe (St. John the Baptist), just upstream from Stockton-on-Tees, in Stockton district:

2,109 baptisms from the beginning of the first register in 1539 to the end of 1751
1,679 burials from the beginning of the first register in 1540 to the end of 1751
544 marriages from the beginning of the first register in 1541 to the end of 1751
There is a gap in the baptism register from Oct 1552 to May 1574, a similar gap in the marriage register from Nov 1552 to Nov 1574, and in the burial register from Feb 1551 to Apr 1574. In 1644, there is this note: "In this year there died of the plague in this towne one and twenty people, they are not all Buried in the Churchyarth and are not in the Register”.

We now have a continuous run of all existing Egglescliffe baptisms, marriages, and burials from around 1540 all the way to the end of 1851.


Hamsterley Baptist Church: baptisms, marriages, and burials

At the Hamsterley Baptist Church in Hamsterley, Auckland district:

605 births covering 1750-1837, one birth in 1845, and baptisms covering Nov 1859 through July 1869
794 burials covering 1785-1965
50 marriages covering 1840-1908


Newcastle All Saints baptisms 1801-1805

2,438 baptisms at All Saints church in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, covering the detail-rich period of 1801-1805, from the Bishop's Transcript with some checking against the film of the original register.


Sunderland Cemetery burials 1918-1934

10,492 burials at Sunderland Cemetery (Stockton Rd, Grangetown) covering 1918-1934. As is usual for this cemetery, most records include a parent, spouse, or occupation. Some samples:


Coming Soon:

Hartlepool St. Hilda baptisms 1839-1859
Mere Knolls Cemetery 1905-1909
Sunderland Cemetery 1935-47
Barnard Castle Primitive Methodist Circuit baptisms 1873-1934
Further down the road: Rothbury, Sherburn Hospital, Ovingham, Newcastle St. John, Ferryhill, Slaley, Hartlepool St. Hilda baptisms 1860-1894, early Durham St. Margaret, early Witton-le-Wear, Tynemouth burials 1851, Dunston Christ Church baptisms & burials

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including my recently released Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. My Pinterest account is at https://www.pinterest.com/chrismpaton/.

Durhams Records Online update

From Durham Records Online (www.durhamrecordsonline.com):

What's New at Durham Records Online:

South Shields St. Hilda baptisms 1880-1891
9,906 baptisms at South Shields St. Hilda spanning 1880-1891, from the Bishop's Transcript with extensive checking against the parish register.

Easington burials 1653-1757
2,312 burials at Easington St. Mary the Virgin, filling a gap we had from 1653 to the end of 1757. We now have a continuous run of burials at this church from the first register in 1570 to 1956 – nearly 400 years of burials.

Gainford baptisms & burials 1760-1797
884 baptisms and 719 burials at Gainford St. Mary in Teesdale district, covering 1760-1797, joining our existing collection for 1798-1851 at this church, from a combination of the parish register and the Bishop's Transcript for maximum detail.

Annual Subscriptions
You can now buy an annual subscription to Durham Records Online for £96 or $155 US. With that, you get:

unlimited access to all the records on the site for 12 months from the time of purchase. No more rationing your site credits or having to go through the payment process every few weeks (or hours, for our power users) to buy new ones!
the ability to filter your search by Parish instead of the broader District – you can select one parish or multiple parishes from a new drop-down list that appears when a subscriber logs in. This is very helpful when you want to search in just one parish or one parish and its adjacent parishes.
for parish records, the search results list will show the parish in which the event occurred, rather than District
for marriages, the search results list will show the spouse, allowing you to avoid a click for details if that is not the marriage you seek
We will probably add some more search filters or other capabilities in the upcoming months.

We are not offering the option to pay in monthly installments at this time. If there is high demand for that, we will look into it. We will not auto-renew the subscription; we will remind you when it's time to re-subscribe and will offer you a "loyalty discount” on the subscription price. We are not offering to cash in your existing credits; they are still perfectly good and you can use them up at your leisure and buy a subscription later if you like.

We intend to always offer a wide range of options for everyone from the person who buys one record at a time to the person who needs to see hundreds of records per month. We will continue to offer both credits and the ability to buy a single record or as many as you want via the shopping cart.

If you're interested in a subscription, click Purchase, which can also be found near the login boxes.

Coming Soon:
Tynemouth baptisms 1833-1849
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery burials 1940-1947
Sunderland Cemetery 1918-1924
Hartlepool St. Hilda baptisms 1839-1894
Hamsterley Baptist Chapel baptisms 1768-1837 and 1859-1869, marriages 1840-1908, burials 1785-1965
Egglescliffe baptisms, marriages, burials 1539-1751
Further down the road: more Sunderland Cemetery, Mere Knolls Cemetery 1905-1909, Tanfield, Rothbury, Sherburn Hospital, Ovingham, Newcastle St. John, Ferryhill, Newcastle All Sts baptisms 1800-1804, Slaley, Hartlepool St. Hilda baptisms 1850-1863,
Beware, ancestors - we're coming to find you!

(With thanks to Durham Records Online)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including my recently released Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. My Pinterest account is at https://www.pinterest.com/chrismpaton/.

Durham Records Online update

The latest updates from Durham Records Online (www.durhamrecordsonline.com):

Houghton-le-Spring baptisms 1581-1650, marriages 1563-1601, burials 1581-1600
At Houghton-le-Spring St. Michael & All Angels:

2,502 baptisms from the beginning of the first register in 1581 to the end of 1650
235 marriages from the beginning of the first register in 1563 to the end of 1601
889 burials from the beginning of the first register in 1581 to the end of 1600
There are no baptisms in the register for these periods: March 1582 to August 1584, 4 March 1591 to 19 Dec 1591, June 1592-Jan 1593, Oct 1593-Feb 1596, May 1596-Sep 1597, Mar 1622-Jan 1624, Sep 1640-Aug 1642, Feb 1644-Apr 1645, Dec 1645-Jun e 1647, and Oct 1647-May 1648. There are no marriages for these periods: Jan 1568 to May 1581, Nov 1585 to Nov 1588, Dec 1592 to Nov 1593, and May 1596 to May 1601. There are no burials from March 1594 to the end of 1595, and all the burials in 1596 are undated and about a dozen are repeated in July 1597, which is odd.

Bishopwearmouth Cemetery burials 1930-1939
12,928 burials covering 1930-1939 at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery in Bishopwearmouth, civil district of Sunderland. Abodes mentioned besides street addresses in Bishopwearmouth include East Boldon, Houghton-le-Spring, Newcastle, South Hylton, South Shields, and Southwick.

Monk Hesleden marriages 1883-1972 updated
At Monk Hesleden St. John in Easington district:
Added witnesses, abodes, marital statuses, occupations, and father's occupations to 646 marriages spanning 1883 to Apr 1972.
Added 2 new marriages to finish 1972 and one we'd missed in 1929.

Deaf Hill marriages 1884-1916 updated; 1917-1918 added
At Deaf Hill cum Langdale St. Paul in Easington district:
Added witnesses, abodes, marital statuses, occupations, and father's occupations to 499 marriages spanning 1884 to Oct 1916.
Added 35 new marriages from Oct 1916 to the end of 1918, plus 2 we'd missed in 1914.

Castle Eden marriages updated: 1813-1836, 1891-1946
At Castle Eden St. James in Easington district:
Added witnesses and abodes and marital statuses (whe re they existed) to 46 marriages spanning 1813-1836.
Added witnesses, abodes, marital statuses, occupations, and father's occupations to 374 marriages spanning 1891-1941 (we'd done 1837-1890 earlier).
Added 28 new marriages spanning 1942-1946.

Wingate Grange baptisms 1885-1899 updated
Updated 1,806 baptisms for the years 1885-1899 at Wingate Grange Holy Trinity in Easington district, adding the child's birth date, father's occupation, abode, and correcting errors. We also added 4 baptisms we'd missed.

Coming Soon:
South Shields St. Hilda baptisms 1880-1891
Middleton-in-Teesdale baptisms 1852-1901
Tynemouth baptisms 1833-1849
Ovingham burials 1798-1840

(With thanks to Holly Cochran)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including my recently released Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. My Pinterest account is at https://www.pinterest.com/chrismpaton/.

Durham Records Online adds annual subscriptions

Major news from Durham Records Online (www.durhamrecordsonline.com):

Annual subscriptions available!

Customers been clamoring for annual subscriptions almost as long as this site has been in business, which is just over 11 years now – and we've finally done it! You can now buy an annual subscription to Durham Records Online for £96 or $155 US. With that, you get:

• unlimited access to all the records on the site for 12 months from the time of purchase. No more rationing your site credits or having to go through the payment process every few weeks (or hours, for our power users) to buy new ones!
• the ability to filter your search by Parish instead of the broader District – you can select one parish or multiple parishes from a new drop-down list that appears when a subscriber logs in. This is very helpful when you want to search in just one parish or one parish and its adjacent parishes.
• for parish records, the search results list will show the parish in which the event occurred, rather than District 
• for marriages, the search results list will show the spouse, allowing you to avoid a click for details if that is not the marriage you seek

We will probably add some more search filters or other capabilities in the upcoming months.

We are not offering the option to pay in monthly installments at this time. If there is high demand for that, we will look into it. We will not auto-renew the subscription; we will remind you when it's time to re-subscribe and will offer you a "loyalty discount” on the subscription price. We are not offering to cash in your existing credits; they are still perfectly good and you can use them up at your leisure and buy a subscription later if you like. We intend to always offer a wide range of options for everyone from the person who buys one record at a time to the person who needs to see hundreds of records per month. We will continue to offer both credits and the ability to buy a single record or as many as you want via the shopping cart.

If you're interested in a subscription, click Purchase (on the site), which can also be found near the login boxes.

Please let us know what you think of the new subscription feature!


New records:

South Shields St. Hilda baptisms 1868-1879
7,569 baptisms at South Shields St. Hilda spanning 1868-1879, from the Bishop's Transcript with extensive checking against the parish register.

Hamsterley baptisms, marriages, burials 1580-1700
At Hamsterley St. James in Auckland district, from the start of the first extant register to the end of 1700
2,077 baptisms 1584-1700
553 marriages 1580-1700
1,406 burials 1580-1700

Durham St. Oswald marriages 1538-1700
1,277 marriages at St. Oswald's in the city of Durham, from the start of the first register in 1538 to the end of 1700. There are no marriages surviving from Dec 1592 to May 1598.

Zion Methodist Chapel, Sunderland baptisms 1809-1836
105 baptisms at the Zion Methodist New Connexion chapel on Zion Street in Sunderland, covering 1809-1836.

Denton marriages 1673-1812
209 marriages at Denton St. Mary in Darlington district, ranging from the start of the first register in 1673 to the end of 1812. Also included are banns that were called here but were not followed by a marriage here. (The couple may have married elsewhere, changed their minds and not married, or they may have married at Denton but the marriage was not recorded in the register.) We now have a continuous run of marriages at Denton from 1673 to 1837.

Pittington baptisms 1651-1700
792 baptisms at Pittington St. Laurence, spanning 1651-1700, filling a gap we've had for a very long time. We now have a continuous run of over 300 years of baptisms at Pittington, from the start of the first register in 1574 to the end of 1905.

Pittington burials 1700-1738, 1759-61 updated
Updated 524 burials spanning 1700-1739 and 1759-1761 at Pittington St. Lawrence in Durham district, adding dates and names where they had previously been judged illegible, or clarifying that the date or name was faded to invisibility if it truly was not readable. Also added 45 burials, mostly from Oct 1727 to August 1729, that had been missed or had been thought to be illegible.

Roman Catholic marriages updated for Hawthorn, Thornley, Hutton House
Updated the following marriages in the district of Easington with the abodes and witnesses that were omitted from our first transcriptions:

• all of our marriages (309) at Hawthorn St. Michael & All Angels, spanning 1864 to 1978
• all of our marriages (310) at Thornley The Sacred Heart & English Martyrs Roman Catholic church (called St. Godric's until 1900) from 1854 to 1910, plus we added 7 marriages we missed the first time around and extended the collection from 1910 to the end of 1911
• all of our marriages (399) spanning 1848-1902 at Hutton House St. Peter & St. Paul Roman Catholic church in Hutton Henry, plus 2 marriages we missed and 12 new marriages to extend the collection to the end of 1903.

Wingate Grange baptisms 1863-1884 updated
Updated 2,583 baptisms for the years 1863-1884 at Wingate Grange Holy Trinity in Easington district, adding father's occupations and abodes where they had been omitted earlier, and correcting errors. We also added 5 baptisms we'd missed.

Coming Soon:
Middleton-in-Teesdale baptisms 1852-1901
Tynemouth baptisms 1833-1849
Ovingham burials 1798-1840
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery burials 1930-39
Houghton-le-Spring baptisms 1581-1650, marriages 1563-1600, burials 1581-1600

(With thanks to Durham Records Online)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including my recently released Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

Durham Records Online update

The latest releases from Durham Records Online (www.durhamrecordsonline.com):

Durham St. Oswald burials 1537-1749

7,955 burials at St. Oswald's in the city of Durham, from the start of the first burial register in Dec 1537 to the end of 1749, joining up with 1750-1868 which we already had online.

Residences mentioned include Aldin Grange/Aldernage, Alton/Auton Stile, Arbor House, the Bailey, Baxter Wood, Bent House, Borne Hall (Burnhall), Branspeth/Brancepeth, Brome/Broom, Brome Hall or Broomhall, Butterbie/Butterby, Croxdale, Elvet, Farewell Hall, Fenckley/Finkhall/or Finchale, Flass, Hodgmore, Houghall, Langley, New Elvet, North Bailey, Old Durham, Old Elvet, Ordshowse, Relly, Sherburn House, Shinckcliff/Shincliffe, Sonderland/Sunderland, Sunderland Bridge, Southern Closes, St. Margaret's chapelry, the parish of St. Nicholas, Stotgate, Toddey/Tudda/Tudhoe, White House, and Whitwell House.


Whitworth baptisms & burials 1569-1764

1,250 baptisms from the start of the first register in 1569 to the end of 1764
545 burials from the start of the first register in 1570 to the end of 1764
Abodes mentioned include Biarsgreen or Byers Green, Bishops Close, Coundon, Croxdale, High Old Park, Low House, Newfield, Old Park, Ox Close, Pedgbank (Page Bank), Spennymoor House, Tudhoe, and Whitworth.


Whitley Chapel (Hexham) baptisms & burials 1875-1899

222 baptisms and 357 burials covering 1875-1899 at Whitley Chapel near Hexham in Hexham district, Northumberland. Whitley Chapel was originally a chapelry in the ancient parish of Hexham, but it became a separate parish in 1763, with its church dedicated to St. Helen.

Abodes mentioned include Brunt Rigg or Burnt Ridge, Channel Well, Dalton, Dotland, Dukesfield Hall, Earthly Mires, Fine Chambers, Gairshield, High Ardley, High Eshells, High Juniper, Holly Bush Close, Houtley, Juniper, Lane House, Lee Moor House, Lillswood, Litterage or Litharge, Mire House, Mollersteads, Nunsbrough, Oak Field House, Ordley, Peth Foot, Raw Green, Salmon Field, Smelting Syke, Tenter House, The Lee, The Steel, and Walley Thorn.


Tynemouth burials 1841-1850

5,954 burials at Christ Church, Tynemouth, Northumberland, covering 1841-1850.

We are grateful to the vicar who, going far beyond the call of duty, recorded the names of both parents of deceased children, fathers' occupations, husbands of deceased women (and often their occupations), and sometimes the cause of death or a reference to another burial of a family member. He also had the unusual habit of sometimes recording where the deceased was born or where they had previously lived.


Whittonstall baptisms & burials 1852-1880

Expanding our collection at Whittonstall St. Philip & St. James, we have added 231 baptisms and 216 burials from this church, covering 1852 through 1880. We now have baptisms and burials at this church from the start of the first register in 1774 to the end of 1880.

Whittonstall parish is in the Hexham district of Northumberland, just across the River Tyne from the County Durham parish of Ebchester, so many families can be found moving back and forth. Residences mentioned include Apperley Bank, Blackhill in Benfieldside (Durham), Bywell St. Peter, Ebchester Bridge End, Fairle or Fairle-may, Fell Close, Grey Mare Hill, Hedley, Highfield, Hindley, Hood's Close, Morrow-field, Newlands, Park House, Seldom Seen, Walkershank, West End, Whittonstall, and Wood House.


Coming Soon:

• Tynemouth baptisms 1833-1849
• early Hamsterley records
• Durham St. Oswald marriages 1538-1700
• Ovingham burials 1798-1840
• South Shields St. Hilda baptisms 1869-1879

Come find those elusive ancestors!

(With thanks to Durham Records Online)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including my recently released Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

Durham Records Online additions

The latest additions to Durham Records Online:

Birtley St. Joseph Roman Catholic marriages 1846-1901
539 marriages at St. Joseph Roman Catholic church in Birtley, district of Chester-le-Street, from the start of the first marriage register in November 1846 to the end of the register in April 1901.

Lamesley baptisms & burials 1730-1765, marriages 1689-1764
At Lamesley St. Andrew in Chester-le-Street district:
2,317 baptisms from 1730 to March 1765 inclusive
1,138 marriages from 1689 to the end of 1764
1,690 burials from 1730 to March 1765 inclusive

This is an important data set because Lamesley was never indexed by FamilySearch, so much of this information may be new to many researchers.

Escomb baptisms 1546-1764, burials 1543-1764, marriages 1543-1812
At Escomb St. John in Auckland district:
851 baptisms from the beginning of the first register in 1546 to the end of 1764
578 burials from the beginning of the first register in 1543 to the end of 1764
266 marriages from the beginning of the first register in 1543 to the end of 1812

Ovingham burials 1762-1797
1,751 burials at Ovingham St. Mary the Virgin in the Hexham district of Northumberland, covering 1762-1797

Ovingham baptisms 1769-1789 and 1805-1840
3,891 baptisms at Ovingham St. Mary the Virgin in the Hexham district of Northumberland, covering 1769-1789 and 1805-1840, from the Bishop's Transcript.

Winston marriages 1574-1797
377 marriages at Winston St. Andrew in the district of Teesdale, from the beginning of the first register in June 1574 to the end of 1797. These met up with our existing collection, which previously started in 1798, so we now have marriages here from 1574 to mid-1837.

Petition to release Sunderland men who are prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars
There is a new article in the Local History section: Petition to release Sunderland men who are prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars
Around 16,000 British prisoners of war were confined in France between 1793 and 1815, some for many years. Among them were many sailors from the Sunderland area. Without their income-producing husbands, the wives (and children and even parents) of these men, left behind at home, suffered terrible poverty and deprivation. Desperate, they sent a petition to the Prince Regent, begging him to get the prisoners released, and including a list of the names of the prisoner's dependents and their relationships. For example:

Name
Relationship of prisoner
Years confined in France
Family left

Coming Soon:
Durham St. Oswald burials 1538-1749
Tynemouth burials 1841-1849
Tynemouth baptisms 1833-1849
early Whitworth records
early Hamsterley records
South Shields St. Paul Presbyterian baptisms 1809-1968

(With thanks to Durham Records Online)

Chris

The latest British GENES podcast is available at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/podcasts.html. For details on my latest book Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, and my other genealogy guide books, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

Durham Records Online update

From Durham Records Online (www.durhamrecordsonline.com):

South Shields St. Hilda baptisms 1842-1867

11,070 baptisms at South Shields St. Hilda, from 1 July 1842 (where our last release left off) to the end of 1867, from a combination of the Bishop's Transcript and the parish register.


Whitley Chapel (Hexham) baptisms & burials 1843-1874

637 baptisms and 541 burials covering 1843-1874 at Whitley Chapel (St. Helen) near Hexham in Hexham district, Northumberland, from the Bishop's Transcript. Whitley Chapel was originally a chapelry in the ancient parish of Hexham, but it became a separate parish in 1763, with its church dedicated to St. Helen. This parish is adjacent to the Durham parish of Hunstanworth, so families moved back and forth between the two places quite often.


Coming Soon:

Seaham Harbour St. John 1882-1949 marriage updates (adding the missing occupations, abodes, etc.)
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery burials 1915-1919
Durham Diocese marriage bonds 1831-1837
Being checked at the archives: South Shields St. Paul Presbyterian baptisms 1809-1968, Jarrow Ellison Street Presbyterian baptisms 1857-1968, Hexham Whitley Chapel baptisms & burials 1875-1888, Tynemouth baptisms 1833-1838

In the queue: Ovingham burials 1769-1786, Rothbury, Whittonstall, Birtley St Joseph Catholic marriages 1846-1899, Hartlepool St. Hilda baptisms and monument inscriptions, Longhorsley, more Ovingham baptisms & burials, the earliest burials at Durham St. Oswald and Durham St. Nicholas, early Lamesley baptisms, marriages, and burials, and more.

Chris

For details on my latest book Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, and my other genealogy guide books please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. To commission me for genealogical research, please visit my research site at www.scotlandsgreateststory.co.uk.