Esh, Durham Genealogy

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

Parish History
ESH, or ASH, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Lanchester, W. division of Chester ward, N. division of the county of Durham, 5 miles (W. N. W.) from Durham. There is a Roman Catholic chapel in the village; and at a short distance to the east is the Roman Catholic College of Ushaw.

Additional information: Esh was created as a parish from the ancient parish of Lanchester, Durham and had an old chapelry on the site until the church of St Michael was built in 1770, rebuilding the chapelry and forming a parish. Ushaw, Ushaw Moor,Esh Village,Esh Winning and Langley Park are within the parish and subsequent parishes were created from within the 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
Esh parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Records are also available at the Durham County Record Office.

Non Conformist Churches
Roman Catholic

Poor Law Unions
Lanchester 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

Websites
Esh on GENUKI