Sedgefield, Durham Genealogy

Guide to Sedgefield, Durham family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SEDGEFIELD (St. Edmund), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the NE division of Stockton ward, S division of the county of Durham; comprising the chapelry of Embleton, and the townships of Bradbury, Butterwick, Fishburn, Foxton with Shotton, Mordon, and Sedgefield. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Additional information: Sedgefield St Edmund the Bishop is an ancient parish and it includes Bradbury, Butterwick, Embleton, Fishburn, Foxton and Shotton, Mordon, and Sedgefield.

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

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

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Sedgefield on GENUKI