Elwick Hall, Durham Genealogy
Guide to Elwick , Durham family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Elwick Hall, Durham | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | [[Stockton, Durham|Stockton]] |
| County | Durham |
| Poor Law Union | Stockton |
| Registration District | Hartlepool |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1592 | |
| 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 | |
Parish History
ELWICK-HALL, or West Parish (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Stockton, N. E. division of Stockton ward, S. division of the county of Durham, 4 miles (N.) from Wolviston. [1]
Additional information: Elwick Hall is an ancient parish and the church of St Paul has a boundary which places Elwick itself in the neighbouring parish of Hart, Durham.
Resources
Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records
Elwick Hall parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Elwick Hall Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FREG | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | |||
| FMP | 1538-1990 | 1538-1989 | 1538-2000 | |||
| TGEN | 1559-1800s | 1558-1800s | 1559-1800s | |||
| JOIN | 1538-1837 | |||||
| FS BTs | 1639-1919 | 1639-1919 | 1639-1919 | |||
| FS Marr Img | 1594-1815 | |||||
| FS Marr | 1692-1900 | |||||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| NBI | 1559-1999 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Durham County Record Office.
Non Conformist Churches
- Wesleyan Methodist
- Roman Catholic is a non-Church of England denomination located somewhere in Elwick Hall, but the exact parish has not been identified
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
Stockton 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.
Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
Elwick Hall on GENUKI
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 167-173. Adapted. Date accessed: 11 December 2013.
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Durham) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk