Stockton upon Tees St Thomas, Durham Genealogy

England Durham



Parish History
Stockton upon Tees St Thomas began as a chapel of Ease to Norton, Durham Ancient parish. Created in 1713 after a 1711 Act of Parliament had created Stockton with East Hartburn and Preston as a parish. The consecration is to St Thomas a Becket. Other places in the parish include: East Hartburn, Preston, Preston on Tees, and Preston upon Tees.

STOCKTON-UPON- TEES (St. Thomas), an incorporated market-town, an inland port, a parish, and the head of a union, in the S. W. division of Stockton ward, S. division of the county of Durham; containing, with the townships of Preston and East Hartburn, 10,071 inhabitants, of whom 9825 are in the town, 20 miles (S. S. E.) from Durham, and 244 (N. by W.) from London.

From: 'Stockport - Stockwood', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 209-215. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51305 Date accessed: 27 March 2011.

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
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use 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.

Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/244 April 1762-1868 Parish Register transcripts are available to search free online at FamilySearch Historical Records. In addition at DDR/EA/PBT/2/242 there are the transcripts for the Stockton Friends Burial Ground Register Transcripts 1865-1897

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.

Known issue The Burial register images within the collection are not displayed correctly for the images 629-644 in the year range 1798-1832 for the year 1832 from entry number 2008. This issue awaits correction by engineers.

The Parish Registers for the period 1621-1958 are deposited at Durham County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL (EP/Sto).

FamilySearch Historical Records includes England, Durham Diocese, Marriage Bonds and Allegations (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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