Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland Genealogy

England Northumberland  Northumberland Parishes

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

Parish History
The city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne includes the following pre-1850 parishes, in order of founding date:


 * St Nicholas (the original parish church, with records from 1558) St Nicholas became a cathedral church when the Diocese of Newcastle was created in 1882 and is now St Nicholas Cathedral one of the smaller cathedrals in England.
 * All Saints (ancient chapelry, created as a separate parish in 1808, with records from 1600)
 * St Andrew (ancient chapelry, created as a separate parish in 1808, with records from 1597)
 * St John (ancient chapelry, created as a separate parish in 1808, with records from 1587)
 * St Anne (chapelry, created as a separate parish from All Saints in 1843)
 * St Peter (created as a separate parish from St Andrew's in 1844)
 * All Saints, St. John the Baptist, and St. Andrew. There are places of worship in Newcastle for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, members of the Scottish Kirk, Sandemanians, Swedenborgians, Unitarians, Roman Catholics, and others.

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:

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.

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