Allendale St Peter, Northumberland Genealogy

Guide to Allendale St Peter, Northumberland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Created as a chapelry in the parish of Allendale and no longer used for ecclesiastical purposes. Allendale, St Peter in the Forest (or Allenheads, St Peter), located about four miles south of Allendale Town in thehamlet of Sparty Lea, is now a private house. The present building, dated 1825, replaced an earlier structure of 1701. There is a large churchyard at the rear of the building.

Within the parish also are four chapels, in the gift of the incumbent of Allendale, viz. St. Peter's, rebuilt in 1825, a perpetual curacy, of which the net income is £120; the chapel at Nine-Banks, partially rebuilt about 1816, a perpetual curacy, with an income of £124; the chapel at the Carr Shield, or West Allen High chapel, built in 1822, also a perpetual curacy, of which the income is £109; and that of Allenheads.... From: 'Alfrick - Allerston.

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Poor Law Unions
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Probate Records
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