Ancroft, Northumberland Genealogy

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

Parish History
ANCROFT, a parochial chapelry, in the union of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Islandshire, N. division of Northumberland, 6 miles (S.) of Berwick.It includes the villages of Ancroft, Cheswick, Haggerston, Scremerston, and Greenses.

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Records of baptisms 1742-1959, marriages 1742-1982 and burials 1742-1959 are available at Northumberland Collections Service

Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/11 1764-1867 Parish Register transcripts are available to search free online at FamilySearch Historical Records (formerly Record Search). References prior to 1844 refer to Ancroft as in "North Durham" North Durham references in the Durham Bishop’s Transcripts collection 1700-1900 Images for Ancroft at present may be located in both North Durham and Northumberland and stray images may be found as unknown in the images due to these reasons. It is hoped to assemble these in future after re-engineering the image collection. The current images are incomplete for this parish and this is a known issue awaiting the collection take down and return.

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.

Non Conformist Records

 * 1613-1920 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Poor Law Unions
Berwick 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.

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