Durham College, Durham Genealogy

England Durham  Durham Parishes

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

Parish History
Durham College is an extra parochial place within the city of Durham. It ceased to be aparish, is still recognised as separate, the inhabitants having no parochial rights in any other church, and are without a church. It is necesary to search other parishes in the city for events. The university was founded in connexion with the cathedral, by the late Bishop Van Mildert and the Dean and Chapter that a professorship of Hebrew and the oriental languages should then be founded, and that the six fellowships founded by the Dean and Chapter, in 1840, should be increased to twenty-four; towards the maintenance of which, certain estates were allotted to the university.

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
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
Durham 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