Stockton upon Tees Holy Trinity, Durham, England Genealogy


Stockton upon Tees Holy Trinity

Guide to Stockton upon Tees Holy Trinity, Durham family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Stockton upon Tees Holy Trinity
Type Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Durham
Hundred Stockton
Poor Law Union Stockton
Registration District Stockton
Records Begin
Parish registers 1835
Bishop's Transcripts 1838
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Stockton
Diocese Durham
Province York
Probate Court Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
Archive
Durham Record Office


Parish History

STOCKTON-UPON-TEES (Holy Trinity), an incorporated market-town, an inland port, a parish, and the head of a union, in the SW division of Stockton ward, S division of the county of Durham; containing, with the townships of Preston and East Hartburn, 10,071 inhabitants, of whom 9825 are in the town, 20 miles SSE from Durham, and 244 N by W from London. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, to which a district containing a population of 4000 persons has been assigned, occupies a site given by Bishop Van Mildert.n of a grant of £600 from the Incorporated Society. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £300; patron, the Bishop. There are places of worship for Particular Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Primitive Methodists, Unitarians, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics.[1]

Additional information:
Originally Holy Trinity Stockton on Tees was created as a chapel of ease within the parish of Stockton upon Tees St Thomas in 1837. Later, the chapels of Stockton St James in 1868 and Stockton St John the Baptist in 1872 were added within the town.

Stockton was formerly a chapelry, in the parish of Norton (which also see), from which it was separated by an act of Parliament obtained in 1713. The ancient chapel, supposed to have been erected about the year 1237, was taken down, and the present church was completed in 1712.

Resources

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Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

Church Records

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Church of England

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  • Dates in the following table are approximate

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Stockton upon Tees Holy Trinity Online Parish Records
Collections
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
Indexes and images
Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Durham
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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FreeREG
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Durham ($)
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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Ancestry-England Select Births, Marriages, Death, and Burials ($)
1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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MyHeritage - Durham ($)
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1800s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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1500s-1800s
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National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
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1800s-1900s

Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Nonconformist Records

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Poor Law Unions

Probate Records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Durham Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers

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Websites

Stockton upon Tees on GENUKI

References

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., [ http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51305#s10 A Topographical Dictionary of England], (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 10 December 2013.