Norton, Durham Genealogy: Difference between revisions

Norton, Durham
	; Norton St Mary Magdalene Co Durham
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Stockton
County	Durham
Poor Law Union	Stockton
Registration District	Stockton
Records begin
	Parish registers: 1574
	Bishop's Transcripts: 1762
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Stockton
Diocese	Durham
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
	Durham Record Office
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Norton

Guide to Norton, Durham family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History[edit | edit source]

NORTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stockton, SW division of Stockton ward, S division of the county of Durham, 2 miles N from Stockton. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and the Society of Friends.^[1]

Additional information:
St Mary Norton is an ancient parish and from within it in 1237 grew the parish of Stockton-on-Tees.

Resources[edit | edit source]

Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

Type the name of the parish in the search bar
Click on the location pin on the map
Choose Options from the pop up box
Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

1866-1893 England, Durham, Norton, Society of Friends, Burial Ground Register Transcripts(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
St. Mary the Virgin, Norton, Co. Durham, Monumental Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

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

See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England[edit | edit source]

Due to the increasing access of online records:

Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified

Dates in the following table are approximate

Hover over the collection's title for more information

Norton 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	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Durham ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Ancestry-England Select Births, Marriages, Death, and Burials ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-
National Burial Index-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	-	-	1800s-1900s

Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

Joiner Marriage Index - Durham ($)
The Genealogist Parish Registers - Durham ($)
UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

England, Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Miscellaneous Records (FamilySearch) - free

Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]

"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.

1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]

Stockton Poor Law Union, Durham

Probate Records[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites[edit | edit source]

Norton on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 11 December 2103.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 11 December 2103.

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+| link3=[[Durham Parishes]]
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-[[Image:Norton_St_Mary_Magdalene_Co_Durham.jpg|thumb|right|Norton St Mary Magdalene]]
+Guide to '''Norton, Durham family history and genealogy:''' parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
+{{Infobox England Jurisdictions
+| image = Norton St Mary Magdalene Co Durham.jpg
+| caption = Norton St Mary Magdalene Co Durham
+| Type = [[Ancient Parish]]
+| County = Durham
+| Hundred = Stockton
+| Poor Law Union = [http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Stockton/ Stockton]
+| Registration District = Stockton
+| PRbegin = 1574
+| BTbegin = 1762
+| Province = York
+| Diocese = Durham
+| Archdeaconry =
+| Archdeaconries =
+| Rural Deanery = Stockton
+| Parish =
+| Peculiar =
+| Chapelry =
+| Probate Court = Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
+| Archdeaconry Court =
+| Bishops Court =
+| Prerogative Court =
+| Archive = [[Durham Record Office]]
+}}
 == Parish History  ==
-St Mary Norton is an ancient parish and from within it in 1237 grew the parishes of Stockton-on-Tees.
+NORTON (St. Mary), a '''parish''', in the union of Stockton, SW division of Stockton ward, S division of the county of Durham, 2 miles N from Stockton. There are places of worship for '''Wesleyans''' and the '''Society of Friends'''.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51185#s7 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''], (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 11 December 2103.</ref>
-"The Church - This ancient and venerable edifice, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, stands on a slight elevation near the village to the north. It is a cruciform structure, consisting of nave, transept - from the intersection of which springs the central tower - aisles, and chancel. The parts of the original building still remaining are said to belong to pre-Conquest or Saxon times, and the date of their erection is uncertain. These are the north and part of the south transepts, and the tower; but the massive piers and semicircular arches by which the latter is supported seem strongly to indicate an early Norman origin. The nave as it now stands was built during the Norman Transitional period, which prevailed from 1145 to 1190.
+'''Additional information:'''<br>
+St Mary Norton is an ancient parish and from within it in 1237 grew the parish of Stockton-on-Tees.
-"The church has passed through many periods of restoration, the principal one being in the year 1876, carried out with questionable taste in the Tudor Gothic style. All the stained glass in the church is of modern date and of more than average excellence; the windows in the south wall of the chancel, representing incidents in the life of Bernard Gilpin, vicar of Norton, 1554, are of especial interest and value. Norton is the mother-church of the adjacent town of Stockton-on-Tees, and in 1237, when a chapel was erected at Stockton, the parishioners were permitted to have therein baptism, burial and all other ecclesiastical rights, but were still required to visit the mother-church at Norton on the feast of the assumption of the Blessed Virgin (the 15th of August) bringing with them their offerings."
+== Resources  ==
-[From History, Topography and Directory of Durham, Whellan , London, 1894]
+=== Find Neighboring Parishes ===
-NORTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stockton, S. W. division of Stockton ward, S. division of the county of Durham, 2 miles (N.) from Stockton; containing 1628 inhabitants. The parish comprises by computation 4000 acres of land, in its general aspect level. The soil immediately surrounding the village is of a light but rich loamy nature, and well adapted for market-gardens, for which this place is celebrated, while to the north and west is a strong red clay, producing in favourable seasons excellent wheat: the substrata are beds of sand and gravel. The portion of woodland is very small, and the scenery presents little of a striking character, but embraces in the distance fine views of the Cleveland hills. There are some brick and tile manufactories, a glue factory, and a tannery. The road from Stockton to Durham used to run through the village, but was diverted a mile to the west about 1830; the main line of the Clarence railway passes on the north, and the Stockton branch diverges from it at the tollgate, in its course to the river Tees. By an act of the 12th of Queen Anne, the townships of Stockton, East Hartburn, and Preston were separated from this parish, and formed into the parish of Stockton. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £31. 11. 5½.; patron, the Bishop of Durham; impropriators, William Wharton, Esq., of Durham, and others. The rectorial tithes have been commuted for £271, the vicarial for £80; and there are about 260 acres of glebe valued at £289, exclusively of the vicarage-house and gardens valued at £40. The church which was collegiate, and from 1227 till the Dissolution had eight prebendaries, stands upon elevated ground, and is partly Norman, and partly in the early English style, bearing traces of its antiquity and former importance, particularly in its square central tower springing from four circular arches. The south transept was called Pettie (or little) porch, and by some was named Pity porch, from an altar of the Virgin Mary; in Blakiston porch, which forms the north transept, was a well-carved recumbent figure in armour, now removed to the south side of the communion-table, and supposed to be a memorial of the Blakiston family. The edifice was repaired, and two galleries were added, in 1826. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and the Society of Friends. Norton enjoys the privilege, with Stockton, of one of the scholarships founded in the university of Oxford, in 1536, by John Claymond, vicar of the parish, and first president of Corpus Christi College. A free grammar school, which has an income of £40 a year, appears to have existed since the year 1600. Bernard Gilpin, "the Apostle of the North," was instituted to the vicarage on his return from the continent, in 1552. Jeremiah Moore, who had in early life been made a slave to the Turks by the cruelty of his brother, and who was subsequently distinguished for his philanthropy and benevolence; Christopher Middleton, the first navigator employed by the lords of the admiralty to discover a North-West passage; Admiral Policarpus Taylor, eminent for his naval services; and the Rev. John Wallis, author of the History of Northumberland, all died here.
+Use [https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ England Jurisdictions 1851 Map]
+::*Type the name of the parish in the ''search bar''
+::*Click on the location ''pin'' on the map
+::*Choose ''Options'' from the pop up box
+::*Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes<br>
+=== Cemeteries ===
+*'''1866-1893''' {{FSC|1825167|title-id|disp=England, Durham, Norton, Society of Friends, Burial Ground Register Transcripts}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
+* {{FSC|486171|title-id|disp=St. Mary the Virgin, Norton, Co. Durham, Monumental Inscriptions}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
-From: 'Norton - Norton-Bavant', ''[[A Topographical Dictionary of England]]'' (1848), pp. 439-441. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51185 Date accessed: 27 March 2011.<br>
+=== Civil Registration  ===
-== Resources  ==
+Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.<br>
+*''See [[England Civil Registration]] for online resources and information''.<br><br>
-==== Civil Registration  ====
+=== Church Records  ===
+''The Church of England'' (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. <br>
+''Non-Conformist'' refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.
-Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is [http://freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD].
+==== Church of England ====
+<font color=blue> Due to the increasing access of online records:</font><br>
+*<font color=blue>Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified<br>
+*Dates in the following table are approximate </font><br>
+'''''Hover over the collection's title for more information'''''
+{| class="wikitable" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
+|-
+| bgcolor="#b6cee2" align="center" scope="col" colspan="7" | '''Norton Online Parish Records'''
+|-
+| bgcolor="#efdcc3" | <center>'''''Collections'''''</center>
+| bgcolor="#d9bfbf" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Baptisms'''''</center>
+| bgcolor="#bfd9bf" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Marriages'''''</center>
+| bgcolor="#cac4d4" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Burials'''''</center>
+|-
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" |
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>''Indexes and images''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>''Indexes only''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>''Indexes and images''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>''Indexes only''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>''Indexes and images''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>''Indexes only''</center>
+|-
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| FamilySearch Collections-Durham
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=0&q.recordCountry=England&q.recordSubcountry=England%2CDurham 1500s-1900s]</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=1&q.recordCountry=England&q.recordSubcountry=England%2CDurham 1500s-1900s]</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|<center>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=2&q.recordCountry=England&q.recordSubcountry=England%2CDurham 1500s-1900s]</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+|-
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>{{FS Bishop's Transcript}}</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>{{FS Bishop's Transcript}}</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|<center>{{FS Bishop's Transcript}}</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+|-
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| FreeREG
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center> [https://www.freereg.org.uk/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://www.freereg.org.uk/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://www.freereg.org.uk/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
+|-
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Findmypast-Durham ($)
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/durham-baptisms 1500s-1900s] </center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|  <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/durham-marriages 1500s-1900s] </center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/durham-burials 1500s-1900s] </center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+|-
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Ancestry-England Select Births, Marriages, Death, and Burials ($)
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9841/  1500s-1900s]</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1352/ 1500s-1900s]</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" |  <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9840/ 1500s-1900s]</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|  <center>'''-'''</center>
+|-
+| bgcolor="#dbe7f0" align="center" scope="col" colspan="7" | ''Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage''
+|-
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/england-boyds-marriage-indexes-1538-1850 1500s-1800s]</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
+|-
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
+| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/national-burial-index-for-england-and-wales 1800s-1900s]</center>
+|-
+|}
+'''''Other Websites'''''<br>
+These databases have incomplete parish coverage. <br>
+*[http://joinermarriageindex.co.uk/marriage-records/Durham/ Joiner Marriage Index - Durham] ($)
+*[https://parishregister.co.uk/online/durham-parish-records The Genealogist Parish Registers - Durham] ($)
+*[http://www.dustydocs.com/ UK Websites for Parish Records] - Links to online genealogical records
+*[https://ogindex.org/ Online Genealogical Index] -  Links to online genealogical records
-==== Church records  ====
+*{{RecordSearch|1918635|England, Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Miscellaneous Records (FamilySearch) - free}}
+====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.<br>
-To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use [http://maps.familysearch.org/ England Jurisdictions 1851]. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes. <br>
+*'''1717''' [https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/england-and-wales-roman-catholics-1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717] at Findmypast ($), index and images (''coverage may vary'')
-Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/198 1762-1846&nbsp;Parish Register transcripts are available to search free online at FamilySearch Historical Records . The transcript collection also includes DDR/EA/PBT/2/199 Burial Ground register transcripts Norton Friends 1865-1893
-The dates of the post-1760 transcripts have been noted in detail and sometimes only cover years. For most parishes in the collection there are gaps in the sequence of transcripts. It is advisable to consult the original parish registers for these years and events.
+=== Census Records ===
-The Parish Registers for the period 1574-1989 are deposited at Durham County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL (EP/Nor).
+{{British Census|241357}}
-FamilySearch Historical Records includes [[England, Durham Diocese, Marriage Bonds and Allegations (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
+=== Poor Law Unions  ===
-===== Non Conformist Churches =====
+*[[Stockton Poor Law Union, Durham]]
-==== Census records  ====
+=== Probate Records  ===
-{{British Census|241357}}
+Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to [[Durham Probate Records|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.
-==== Poor Law Unions  ====
+== Maps and Gazetteers  ==
-[[Stockton Poor Law Union, Durham]]
+Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.<br>
-==== Probate records  ====
-Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to [[Durham Probate Records|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.
+*[https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ England Jurisdictions 1851]
+*[https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain]
-== Maps and Gazetteers  ==
+== Websites  ==
-Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.<br>
+Norton on [http://joinermarriageindex.co.uk/pjoiner/genuki/DUR/Norton/index.html GENUKI]
-*[http://maps.familysearch.org/ England Jurisdictions 1851]
+== References  ==
-*[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain]
-== Web sites  ==
+{{Reflist}}
-Contributor: add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
+{{Durham}}
-[[Category:Durham]]
+[[Category:Durham_Parishes]]