Byers Green,St Peter, Durham Genealogy

England Durham  Durham Parishes

Parish History
Byers Green St Peter was originally created as a chapelry as part of and within the parish boundary of Auckland St Andrew parish. The chapel was built by the year 1845. Subsequently other parishes of Binchester St Barnabas (built by 1877) and Newfield (built in 1900) were created from it.

Escomb St John, was a parochial chapelry; Witton St Paul was created from it in 1878. St John's is from very ancient (one of three Anglo Saxon churches in England) origins, also resided within the ancient parish of Auckland St Andrews.

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
The Parish Registers for the period July 1845 to January 1957 are deposited at Durham County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL.

Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections DDR/EA/PBT/2/43 July 1845-1846 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.

FamilySearch Historical Records includes England, Durham Diocese, Marriage Bonds and Allegations (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Poor Law Unions
Sedgefield 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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