Felling Christ Church, Durham Genealogy

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

Parish History
FELLING, a hamlet, in thechapelry of Heworth parish of Jarrow, E. division of Chester ward, N. division of the county of Durham, 2 miles (S. E.) from Gateshead, on the road to Sunderland and South Shields. The Independents, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connexion, and Wesleyans have places of worship, with Sunday schools attached; and there is a neat Roman Catholicchapel''', erected in 1841. '''

Additional information: Felling Christ Church parish was formed in 1866 from Heworth parish.

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
Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/ 2/106 April 1866- 1869 Parish Register transcripts are available to search free online at Record Search.

The dates of the post-1760 transcripts have been noted in detail and sometimes only cover years. For most parishes in the collection there are gaps in the sequence of transcripts. It is advisable to consult the original parish registers for these years and events.

The Parish Registers for the period 1866-1970 are deposited at Durham County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL (EP/Fe).

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

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