Jarrow, Durham Genealogy
Guide to Jarrow, Durham family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Jarrow, Durham | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Chester |
County | Durham, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | South Shields |
Registration District | Gateshead; South Shields |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1572 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1765 | |
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 County Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
JARROW, EAST, in the parish of Jarrow, union of South Shields, E division of Chester ward, N division of the county of Durham, 3 miles W from South Shields. This place is situated on the south-east side of the River Don, and forms the western boundary of the township of Westoe.[1]
JARROW (St. Paul), a parish, partly in the union of Gateshead, and partly in that of South Shields, E division of Chester ward, N division of the county of Durham; comprising the townships of Harton, Hedworth, Heworth, Jarrow, Monkton, South Shields, and Westoe; and containing 33,945 inhabitants, of whom 9082 are in the town and port of South Shields.
There are chapels at South Shields, Nether Heworth, Windy-Nook, and Harton; and the Presbyterians, Wesleyans, Methodists of the New and the Old Connexion, and others, have places of worship in the parish. [2]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Jarrow parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
Jarrow 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 | 1572-1837 | |||||
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[edit | edit source]
- Independent/Congregational
- Methodist New Connexion
- Primitive Methodist
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Wesleyan Methodist
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
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]
Jarrow on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 631-640. Date accessed: 24 March 2011.
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 631-640. Date accessed: 19 April 2015
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Durham) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk