Edlingham, Northumberland Genealogy

Guide to Edlingham, Northumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. {Infobox England Jurisdictions }}
 * image = Edlingham church Northumberland.JPG
 * caption = Edlingham church Northumberland
 * Type = Ancient Parish
 * County = Northumberland
 * Hundred = Coquetdale
 * Poor Law Union = Alnwick
 * Registration District = Alnwick
 * PRbegin = 1658; Separate registers exist for Bolton beginning 1824
 * BTbegin = 1760
 * Province = York
 * Diocese = Durham
 * Archdeaconry =
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 * Rural Deanery = Alnwick
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 * Probate Court = Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
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 * Archive = Northumberland Record Office

Parish History
EDLINGHAM (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Alnwick, N. division of Coquetdale ward and of Northumberland; comprising the townships of Abbewick, Broom-Park, Edlingham, Learchild, and Lemmington, and the chapelry of Bolton; The church is an ancient structure, with some Norman details still remaining, though it has undergone various alterations. At Bolton is a chapel of ease. St John The Baptist Edlingham is an Ancient Parish and includes: Abberwick, Abbewick, Battle Bridge, Bolton, Broom Park, Broome Park, Learchild, Lemmington, Lemmington with Battle Bridge and Lemmington Mills.

Additional information:

Bolton Chapel: A chapel of ease in the Parish of Edlingham. Although there has been considerable nineteenth century restoration, the foundation is ancient, and some Norman work survives. The chapel is mentioned in 1230, and was probably in the care of the Brethren of a Leper Hospital which was founded to the north of Bolton in 1227 under the terms of a license granted by Prior of Durham who held the advowson until the Dissolution. [The Newcastle Diocesan Gazetteer (1982), page 93.]

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. Parish Records

Church Records
Edlingham 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.

Poor Law Unions
Alnwick 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
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