Haydon, Northumberland Genealogy

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

Parish History
HAYDON, a chapelry, in the parish of Warden, union of Hexham, N. W. division of Tindale ward, S. division of Northumberland, 7 miles (W.) from Hexham, 27 (W.) from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 30 (E.) from Carlisle. The village of Haydon-Bridge, situated on both sides of the South Tyne river, is in this chapelry. The present chapel, dedicated to St. Cuthbert, and forming a chapel of ease, was built in 1796, on a new site, near the north end of the bridge. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans. The chapel of Langley stood on the south side of the river, perhaps on the ground called Chapel Hill.

WARDEN (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Hexham, N. W. division of Tindale ward, S. division of Northumberland, 2½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Hexham with the townships of Brokenheugh, Deanraw, and Lipwood, and the parochial chapelries of Newbrough and Haydon. Simonburn Chapelry was created in 1867 and a chapel constructed within it, in 1868.

Additional information:

Warden St Michael and All Angels is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland. Newbrough and Haydon Bridge are chapelries in Warden.

Other places in the parish include: Allerwash, Brokenheugh, Elrington, Four Stones, High Warden and Walwick Grange, Lipwood, Morralee, Nether Warden, Walwick, and Whinnetley.

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
Haydon 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 Northumberland Archives.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1613-1920 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Hexham 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