Coundon, Durham Genealogy

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

Parish History
COUNDON, a township, in the parish of St. Andrew Auckland, union of Auckland, NW division of Darlington ward, S division of the county of Durham.

Additional information: Coundon St James was created in 1842 from chapelry in Auckland St Andrew, Durham Ancient Parish and includes: Windlestone and Westerton. The church was rebuilt in 1872 on a new site set further back from the road, and on a much grander in scale, the accommodation being increased to 530 seats. Again dedicated to St. James, it was designed by the leading architect Ewan Christian, and is an imposing stone building in the Early English style with lancet windows, large and with an apsidal east end. Instead of being served by a perpetual curate, it now had its own vicar.

Chapels were also built for the Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists and New Connexions.

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
Coundon 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

 * New Connexions
 * Primitive Methodist
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Wesleyan Methodists

Poor Law Unions

 * Auckland 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
Coundon (see St. Andrew Auckland) on GENUKI