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DURHAM
"A county of England lying on the German Ocean, and bounded by Northumberland, Cumberland,Westmorland, and Yorkshire.
It is about 40 miles in length and 30 in breadth, and contains 1 city, 8 market towns, and 113 parishes.
It is hilly, and some points are nearly 2000 feet high. There are wide moors amongst the hills, and other tracts completely uncultivated.
There are some islands on the coast, Holy Island being the largest. The coast is cliffy in some parts; other parts are shelving sands.
The principal rivers are the Wear, the Tees, the Tyne, and the Derwent. Coal, iron, lead, mill-stone grit, limestone, &c., are found here
abundantly. The east and south parts of the county are fruitful in corn and pasture, and have a milder air than the other parts.
It sends to other parts of the United Kingdom, and to foreign countries, both its native productions, and the goods it manufactures,
such as coarse woolen goods, sail-cloth, steel, glass,iron, &c.; &c.;
This county was formerly under the special jurisdiction of the bishop of Durham as a Prince Palatine,
but in 1836 the palatinate was vested in the crown. Population, 342,284. It returns 10 members to Parliament."
[From Barclay's Complete and Universal English Dictionary,1842]
INFORMATION RELATED TO ALL OF DURHAM
Archives and Libraries
-
Durham County Record Office
County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL
Telephone: 03000 267619
Website: Durham Record Office
- Dean and Chapter Library
The College, Durham, DH1 3EH
Telephone: (+44) (191) 386 2489
- Durham City Reference Library is now Durham Clayport Library
Millennium Place
Durham
DH1 1WA
Telephone: (+44) (191) 386 4003
- Durham University Library - Archives and Special Collections
- Palace Green Section
Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RN
Telephone: (+44) (191) 334 2972
- Section at 5 The College
(formerly Department of Palaeography and Diplomatic)
5 The College, Durham, DH1 3EQ
Telephone: (+44) (191) 334 1210
- Family history resources at
- There is a page of photographs of Beamish Museum taken by Brian Pears.
- Cleveland Archives: The Friends of Teesside Archives
exist to promote and assist Teesside Archives and to promote conservation of documents etc in the Cleveland
county area. Its volunteers, among other things, help with the indexing of
parish records, rate books, electoral rolls and other records of interest to
family and local historians.
Cemeteries
- Newcastle Local Studies Library has a large collection of Monumental Inscriptions.
Census
- Transcripts of the 1841, 1861, 1871 and 1891 Census Returns
covering areas of Co Durham and Northumberland.
- Brian Pears has compiled tables linking Piece Numbers with Registration
Districts and Sub-districts in Co Durham and Northumberland for each of the
censuses from 1851 to 1911.
- Durham Records Online offer a free search of almost a million County Durham census records; small fee to view the record transcriptions.
Church History
Methodist Churches in 1940 in the "Newcastle-upon-Tyne" and "Sunderland and Durham" Districts. This includes all of Northumberland and the northern part of Co Durham
Church Records
Civil Registration
Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be obtained from theSuperintendent
Registrars at the following District Register Offices:
If ordering from a District Office, please note the following:
- (a) the cost of a certificate is currently (June 2010) £9.00 -send a Sterling
cheque payable to the Superintendent Registrar plus return postage or two International Reply Coupons;
- (b) the St. Catherine's Index references are of no value;
- (c) for marriage certificates, the precise place of marriage must be given;
- (d) Civil Registration in England and Wales began on July 1st 1837.
Registration districts for the period 1837-1930 with their accompanying places,
together with the current location of the records, is listed on Brett Langston's
Civil Registration Pages.
- There are online, searchable, indexes at:-
Once you find an entry you can, of course, order a certificate.
Correctional Institutions
- Extracts from (possibly)
The Durham Chronicle entitled
List of Former Executions relating to executions at Durham between 1732 and
1909 supplied by Alistair and Joan Mills.
- Extracts from the Newcastle Courant relating to Criminals and Crime
1782-1789 and
1830-1851 supplied by
George Bell
Description and Travel
- North of England Regional Information Service,
an initiative developed byN.I.A.A., the Northern Informatics Applications Agency.
- The Northumbria Tourist Board
- Sense of Place North East(SoPNE) is a
group of projects about the North East of England.
The site is "a gateway to
images and sounds that give an insight into what makes the North East special.
It is a portal to learning resources about the people, culture, history, landscape,
and nature of the North East."
The four projects under the Sense of Place
North East are: FARNE, Folk Archive Resource North East,
IMAGINE, Images Museums And Galleries In the North East,
Northumberland Communities,
Tyneside Life and Times.
Directories
Emigration and Immigration
- Ship's passenger lists with Durham connections:-
Genealogy
- Here is a surnames list,
complete with location index, compiled by Graham Jaunay, cataloguing the Northumberland &
Durham-related research interests of a number of Internet and CompuServe users.
- John Fuller has provided full details of
the mailing lists serving the county - NORTHUMBRIA-L and DUR-NBL-L. This is
but a small part of the data available on the "Genealogy Resources on the Internet
" pages maintained by John and Chris Gaunt.
- The Durham Look-up Exchange.
Volunteers are offering look-ups in various research references.
- Details of a mailing list
for people with genealogical or historical interests in Durham and Northumberland.
History
- Gateshead Libraries local history project
with lots of local history information and photographs from Gateshead and the
villages in the Gateshead MBC area. These include bits for Gateshead, Gateshead Fell,
Lamesley and Whickham
- The Durham Victoria County History's
new website. Most of the historical information on it at present is about Darlington,
but they will be covering the whole county eventually.
- Managed by Information North, the regional agency for library co-operation,
the Tomorrow's History project will
be digitising tens of thousands of images and documents from the collections of
libraries, museums and archives inthe North East region, linking these to modern
and historic Ordnance Survey mapping, providing links to existing indexes, catalogues
and content, and stimulating one hundred new Community History initiatives for the new Millennium.
- Brian Pears has created a page "Some Remnants of Victorian Gateshead"
containing photographs of historical Gateshead.
- TheKeys to the Past
website "provides access to a complete record of the archaeologyof the two counties
[the modern counties of Northumberland and Co Durham], from the smallest prehistoric
flint to the largest medieval castle." Note that the Metropolitan Districts of
Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland, and the Unitary
Authorities of Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees are not covered.
Military Records
- Roll of Honour of civilians killed by enemy action in the UK during World War II - listing of
3736 entries
relating to Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire.
- Recipients of the Victoria Cross
associated with the north-east of England.
- The North East War Memorials Project
provides transcriptions, images and information on war memorials in the
region.
- There is a Durham at War website
This is a Heritage Lottery funded WW1 centenary project dedicated to mapping the
story of County Durham and its people in the First World War. The site incorporates
free access to 25 inch to the mile historic mapping of the historic county, derived
from the 2nd revision (3rd edition) Ordnance Survey of 1914-1919. The website will
be live until the end of 2018 and online log-in to add information to the site will be coming soon.
Names, Personal
- Here is a surnames list,
complete with location index, compiled by Graham Jaunay, cataloguing the Northumberland &
Durham-related research interests of a number of Internet and CompuServe users.
Newspapers
Occupations
Probate Records
Religion and Religious Life
There is a large, well organised and informative Durham Diocesan web site which gives full details of the present ecclesiastical set up of the Diocese, together with some historical detail.
Schools
- The Northern Police Orphanage at St George’s House, Otley Road, Harrogate
looked after children of police families, mostly from North-East England.
It was founded by Catherine Gurney in 1898 and closed in 1956. The first admission was Minnie Smith from Sunderland.
Social Life and Customs
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs to 1516 was compiled by Dr Samantha Letters at the Centre for Metropolitan History, and is organised by county. It includes a brief summary of the early history of many large and small places, with details of markets and fairs and the people granted the right to hold them.
The site "Village Games" by Colonel Alex Johnson describes games which Alex remembers from his childhood in NW Co Durham in the 1920s and 30s.
Societies
Voting Registers
TOWNS AND PARISHES
The list of Durham towns and parishes is now on a
separate page.
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David Harrison has provided an 1806 map of Co Durham
(from J. Carey's engraving). A reduced-size version
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