Bellingham, Northumberland Genealogy

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

Parish History
BELLINGHAM (St. Cuthbert), a parish, and the head of a union, in the N. W. division of Tindale ward, S. division of Northumberland; comprising the townships of Charlton East and West Quarters, Leemailing, The Nook, and Tarretburn Quarter. There is a place of worship for Seceders from the Scottish Church; also a Roman Catholic chapel. Bellingham comprises thirty-seven parishes and places.

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
Bellingham 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.

Nonconformist Records

 * Bellingham, St Oswald [Hesleyside] (Roman Catholic): Baptisms 1794-1941, marriages 1941-1993 and deaths 1881-1966. Transcripts of baptisms 1794-1837 and deaths 1775-1790 are available at Northumberland Collections Service and at Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Dept; and the I.G.I. includes births/baptisms 1794-1837.
 * Northumberland Collections Service also has the following records for nonconformist churches located in this parish:
 * Bellingham United Free Church Circuit (Methodist) - Baptisms 1892-1921
 * Bellingham (Presbyterian) - Births/baptisms 1803-1988.

Poor Law Unions
Bellingham 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