Long Benton, Northumberland Genealogy

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

Parish History
BENTON, LONG (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Tynemouth, E. division of Castle ward, S. division of Northumberland, 3½ miles (N. E. by N.) from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. There are several places of worship for dissenters.

Additional information:

The church of St. Bartholomew Long Benton probably occupies the site of a former church recorded in 1130 and built earlier. Restoration work on the church in 1791 discovered evidence of an earlier building.Further building work was undertaken in 1838, and in 1855 the chancel was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style and the whole structure new roofed, a stained east window being given at the same time by Dr. Thomas Addison, of Spring Gardens, London, as a memorial to his parents: in 1873-75, the church was restored and enlarged.

The parish is an ancient parish. The parish includes Killingworth Chapelry.

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Genealogy From Periodicals
Cook, Jim. Thomas Towns of Gateshead. History and photos of George William Cook married Mary Ellen Towns originally from Longbenton, but later on Gateshead. Photos showing family life in the Gateshead area in the late 1800's. Article dated 1800-1953, and is in the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society Magazine, vol.29 no,2, (summer 2004) page 51. FamilySearch Library Reference 942.80B2jo vol.29.no.2.

Poor Law Unions
Tynemouth 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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