Whitley (near North Shields), Northumberland Genealogy

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Guide to Whitley (near North Shields), Northumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WHITLEY, a township, in the parish and union of Tynemouth, E. division of Castle ward, S. division of Northumberland, 3 miles (N.) from North Shields. There are two places of worship for Methodists.

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Whitley was a chapelry in the Ancient Parish of Tynemouth, Northumberland St Paul's Whitley Bay was dedicated in 1864.

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
Whitley Bay, St Paul: Records of baptisms 1861-1975, marriages 1864-1989 and burials 1864-1962 are available at Northumberland Collections Service. Baptisms 1861-1952, marriages 1864-1969, banns 1948-1964, burials 1864-1926 and a transcript of monumental inscriptions can also be seen at Tyne and Wear Archives Service. A transcript of monumental inscriptions at Whitley Bay, St Paul (microfiche TN94) is published by Northumberland and Durham Family History Society. For earlier records see Tynemouth, Northumberland Parish Church.

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Poor Law Unions
Tynemouth 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.

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