Stockton upon Tees St Thomas, Durham Genealogy

Guide to Stockton upon Tees St Thomas, Durham family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
STOCKTON-UPON-TEES (St. Thomas), an incorporated market-town, an inland port, a parish (by at least 1622), and the head of a union, in the S. W. division of Stockton ward, S. division of the county of Durham. Other chapels included Holy Trinity 1838), St John the Baptist (1872) and St James (1868). There are places of worship for Particular Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Primitive Methodists, Unitarians, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics.

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
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.

Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/244 April 1762-1868 Parish Register transcripts are available to search free online at FamilySearch Historical Records. In addition at DDR/EA/PBT/2/242 there are the transcripts for the Stockton Friends Burial Ground Register Transcripts 1865-1897

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.

Known issue The Burial register images within the collection are not displayed correctly for the images 629-644 in the year range 1798-1832 for the year 1832 from entry number 2008. This issue awaits correction by engineers.

The Parish Registers for the period 1621-1958 are deposited at Durham County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL (EP/Sto).

FamilySearch Historical Records includes England, Durham Diocese, Marriage Bonds and Allegations (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Non Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Presbyterian Unitarian
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * United Presbyterian Church of Scotland
 * Unitarians
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Association

Genealogy From Periodicals
Heaviside, George Coulson. An F.R.S. from Morley. History and family names of John Heaviside born 1607, and Ann nee Porter, his wife married 11 November 1643. Descendants move about Billingham, Stockton on Tees, Wolviston, Marylebone, London. with some in USA, Canada, and Australia. Surnames, Story, Wilson, Moore, Laws, Taylor, Winlow, Smith and West, dated 1607-1955. Article in Northumberland &amp; Durham Family History Society Journal. vol. 35,no.1.page 21-24. Family History Library Reference, 942.8 B2jo v.35 no.1 (spring 2010

Poor Law Unions
Stockton 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
Stockton upon Tees on GENUKI