Warden, Northumberland Genealogy

England Northumberland

Parish History
Warden St Michael and All Angels is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland. Newbrough and Haydon Bridge are chapelries in Warden.

Other places in the parish include: Allerwash, Brokenheugh, Elrington, Four Stones, High Warden and Walwick Grange, Lipwood, Morralee, Nether Warden, Walwick, and Whinnetley.

WARDEN (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Hexham, N. W. division of Tindale ward, S. division of Northumberland, 2½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Hexham; containing, with the townships of Brokenheugh, Deanraw, and Lipwood, and the parochial chapelries of Newbrough and Haydon, 2987 inhabitants, of whom 532 are in the township of Warden. This place derives its name, originally Wardon, from the remarkable don or hill under which the church and village are beautifully situated on the south-east, and on the rocky summit of which are vestiges of a circular British camp, subsequently occupied by the Romans, who raised additional works. Within the area of this encampment, the bases of buildings and several querns have been found; and not far from the vicarage-house are traces of a similar fort, most probably connected with the wall of Severus, near which the parish is situated. The manor and church, in 1298, belonged to the monks of Hexham, to whom they had been granted, according to the record, "from a time beyond all memory," by Adam de Tyndale. From the Dissolution the manor was held by the crown till 1610, since which time it has been the property of various private families. The township comprises 2995 acres, of which about two-thirds are arable, and the remainder, with the exception of 200 acres of woodland, meadow and pasture. The surface of the parish rises from the banks of the North and South Tyne rivers to an elevation of about 480 feet. The soil in the valleys is a rich sandy loam, of lighter quality on the rising grounds, and on the ridges of the hills, various, and resting upon limestone, freestone, and whinstone: some collieries, stone-quarries, and lead-mines are worked. Lead was wrought in the Hawden and Settlingstones' ground from 1687 to 1697. The Newcastle and Carlisle railway passes for nearly 8 miles through the parish. The living is a vicarage, with the livings of Newbrough and Haydon annexed, valued in the king's books at £8. 16. 3.; net income, £504; patron, T. W. Beaumont, Esq.; impropriators, the Governors of Greenwich Hospital, the Allgood family, and others. The great tithes of Warden, exclusively of the chapelry of Haydon, have been commuted for £211, and the small tithes for £267: the vicar has a glebe of 21 acres. The church, a very ancient cruciform structure in the early English style, was almost entirely rebuilt in 1765, and contains 300 sittings: the churchyard is spacious, and ornamented with rows of beech and elm trees. A school has been established.

From: 'Warbleton - Wardy-Hill', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 461-464. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51376 Date accessed: 18 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.

Parish Records
Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections Reference number: DDR/EA/PBT/2/260 Date: 1769-1878 Contents: Including transcripts from Haydon Bridge, 1783-1843, and Newbrough, 1769-1878 DDR/EA/PBT/2/129 Parish Register transcripts are available to search free online at FamilySearch Historical records.

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.Warden, St Michael and All Angels: Records of baptisms, 1695-1979, marriages 1695-1996 and burials 1695-1992 are available at Northumberland Collections Service. The International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.) includes baptisms 1695-1724 for this parish, and Boyd's Marriage Index includes marriages 1695-1723. Transcripts of baptisms 1695-1979, marriages 1695-1943 and burials 1695-1978 for Warden are available at Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Dept. A transcript of monumental inscriptions at Warden (microfiche TN75) is published by Northumberland and Durham Family History Society and these records are also available in book form at Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Department.

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Northumberland 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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