Longframlington, Northumberland Genealogy

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

Parish History
FRAMLINGTON, LONG, a parochial chapelry, in the union of Rothbury, E. division of Coquetdale ward, N. division of Northumberland; There is a meeting-house for Presbyterians.

Additional information:

Longframlington St Mary the Virgin is a chapelry in the ancient parish of Felton and includes Brinkburn High ward and Brinkburn Low ward. Other places in the parish include: Brinkburn Low Ward and Brinkburn High Ward.

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
Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/168 Date: March 1765-1841 Contents: Including transcripts from Brinkburn, March 1765-1835 Parish Register transcripts are available to search free online at FamilySearch Historical Records; however images for the parish have not yet been loading pending major engineering of the collection.

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.

Longframlington, St Mary the Virgin: Records of baptisms 1653-1949, marriages 1654-1990 and burials 1684-1929 are available at Northumberland Collections Service. The International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.) includes baptisms 1653-1717 and marriages 1685-1717 for this parish, and Boyd's Marriage Index includes marriages 1685-1717. Transcripts of baptisms 1653-1717, marriages 1685-1717 and burials 1684-1717 are available at Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Dept. A transcript of monumental inscriptions at Longframlington (microfiche TN78) is published by Northumberland and Durham Family History Society and these records are also available in book form at Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Department.

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

Poor Law Unions
Rothbury 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.

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