Westoe, Durham Genealogy

Guide to Westoe, Durham family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
WESTOE, a township, in the parish of Jarrow, union of South Shields, E division of Chester ward, N division of the county of Durham.

Additional information: Westoe, or sometimes known as South Westoe St. Michael and All Angels was created in 1878. The adjacent parishes of Harton St. Peter South Shields Holy Trinity South Shields St. Aidan South Shields St. Hilda; South Shields St. Mark South Shields St. Oswin Parts of this parish became part of these parishes: South Shields St. Oswin (1903)

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
Westoe 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 Durham County Record Office.

Non Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Church of Scotland/Scottish Presbyterian
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Methodist New Connexion
 * Particular Baptist
 * Presbyterian
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * United Presbyterian Church of Scotland
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Association
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

Poor Law Unions
South Shields 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
Westoe (see Jarrow) on GENUKI