Bamburgh, Northumberland Genealogy

Guide to Bamburgh, Northumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BAMBROUGH-CASTLE, a township, in the parish, and N. division of the ward, of Bambrough, union of Belford, N. division of Northumberland, 5 miles(E. by N.) from Belford.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Records of baptisms 1654-1902, marriages 1653-1960 and burials 1698-1902 are available at Northumberland Collections Service. Transcripts of baptisms 1654-1757, marriages 1653-1758 and burials 1652-1809 for Bamburgh are available at Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Dept.

Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/16 Parish Register transcripts 1762-1851 are available to search free online at Record Search. The transcripts include some transcripts for the years June 1790-March 1798 for the chapelry of Beadnell, Northumberland See also separate series of transcripts for Beadnell, Northumberland

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.

Other places within the parish include: Mousen,Mouson,Mowson,Newham, Newham near Belford, Newstead, Outchester, Ratchwood, Shoreston, Shorstone,Shoston,Spindleston.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1613-1920 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Belford Poor Law Union, Northumberland

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain