Winlaton, Durham Genealogy

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Durham

Durham Parishes

Winlaton

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

Winlaton, Durham
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Chester
County	Durham
Poor Law Union	Gateshead
Registration District	Gateshead
Records begin
Parish registers: 1828
Bishop's Transcripts: 1833
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Chester le Street
Diocese	Durham
Province	York
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Durham Record Office

Parish History

WINLATON (St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Gateshead, E division of Chester ward, N division of the county of Durham, 5 miles WSW from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. There are places of worship for Wesleyans, Presbyterians, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion; and four parochial schools, in connexion with the National Society.

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Civil Registration

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Church Records

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Church of England

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Winlaton 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

"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.

• 1710-1960 Tyne and Wear, England, Non-Conformist Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1710-1960 at Ancestry($), index and images
• 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

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

• Gateshead Poor Law Union, Durham

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.

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References

Ambrose Crowley [1] http://webspace.webring.com/people/lg/gv23.geo/sirambrose.html

Sir Ambrose Crowley

Ambrose Crowley began his career in the seventeenth century in Stourbridge, where his father, another Ambrose Crowley, had built up a big iron business. After his mother’s death, family circumstances changed: his father remarried and becames a Quaker. The young Ambrose left in 1689, taking with him expertise gathered in the iron trade. He began in London, he gathers capital to invest in the North-East: first in Sunderland, then at Winlaton, on the fast-flowing Derwent (a tributary of the Tyne). Using the cheap shipping from London to Sunderland (ships were travelling in ballast) he developed in Sunderland an iron nail works. Traditionally iron nails were a Midlands manufacture.

During the period 1707-9 his undertakings in Co. Durham contained two slitting mills, two forges, four steel furnaces, many warehouses, and innumerable smithies producing a wide variety of ironmongery.

From entry for Sir Ambrose Crowley in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

He imports iron from Sweden and converts it to a variety of artefacts that he sends to London, where he has a warehouse at Greenwich and a shop, the “Doublet”, in Thames Street.

He went on to become the biggest ironmonger in the London, with contracts to supply all the naval dockyards.Knighthood and a career in politics followed.The firm which Crowley founded was continued by his son John and by his grandsons and lasted well into the reign of Queen Victoria, prospering from all the wars in the century following his death in 1713.

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