Stella St Cuthbert, Durham Genealogy

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

Parish History
STELLA, a township, in the parish of Ryton, union of Gateshead, W division of Chester ward, N division of the county of Durham. A Roman Catholic chapel was erected in 1831.

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
Stella St Cuthbert 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

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Baptist
 * Methodist New Connexion
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Stella St Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church records 1775-1838 are deposited at Durham County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL only in microfilm version; the baptisms are included in the International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.). Marriages are included in Boyd's marriage Index and transcripts are available at the Record Office. The present church was built in 1831 by John Green with some stained glass windows attributed to Pugin.

Poor Law Unions

 * Gateshead 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
Stella St Cuthbert (see Ryton) on GENUKI