Barnard Castle St. Mary Parish
Reference: EP/BC Catalogue Title: Barnard Castle St. Mary Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 01 Registration
Covering Dates: 1609-2005
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Catalogue Contents
01 Registration (Ref: EP/BC 1/)Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (Ref: EP/BC 1/section 01)
1/1-3
Ref: EP/BC 1/1Register of baptisms, 27 December 1609 - 21 December 1687; marriages, 28 April 1619 - 24 November 1687; and burials, 12 April 1617 - 12 December 1687
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/2Register of baptisms, 6 January 1687/8 -17 February 1721/2, marriages, 25 January 1687/8 - 22 January 1718/9 and burials, 1 January 1687/8 - 19 February 1719/20
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/3Register of baptisms, 19 June 1719 - 26 December 1753; marriages, 17 June 1719 - 26 December 1753; and burials, 18 June 1719 - 31 December 1753
(1 volume, leather bound)
Registers of baptisms and burials (Ref: EP/BC 1/section 02)1/4-6
Ref: EP/BC 1/4Register of baptisms, 1 January 1754 - 29 December 1777 and burials, 8 January 1754 - 26 December 1777
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/5Register of baptisms, 1 January 1778 - 29 December 1799 and burials, 7 January 1778 - 27 December 1799
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/6Register of baptisms, 5 January 1800 - 29 December 1812 and burials, 1 January 1800 - 29 December 1812
(1 volume, calf bound)
Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/BC 1/section 03)1/7-13, 1/35-36, 1/43/1
Ref: EP/BC 1/7Register of baptisms, 1 January 1813 -9 September 1829
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/8Register of baptisms, 13 September 1829 - 31 December 1843
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/9Register of baptisms, 1 January 1844 - 19 April 1868
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/10Register of baptisms, 3 May 1868 - 13 September 1876
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/11Register of baptisms, 26 September 1876 - 30 September 1894
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/12Register of baptisms, 7 October 1894 - 17 October 1913
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/13Register of baptisms, 24 October 1913 - 26 December 1943
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/35Register of baptisms, 1 January 1944 - 2 March 1958
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 1/36Register of baptisms, 8 June 1958 - 27 June 1971
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 1/43/1Register of baptisms, 4 July 1971 - 11 April 1993
(1 volume)
Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/BC 1/section 04)1/14-22, 1/39-40, 1/44/1-3
Ref: EP/BC 1/14Register of banns of marriage, 31 March 1754 - 27 February 1785 and marriages, 17 April 1754 - 16 March 1785
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/15Register of marriages, 28 March 1785 - 31 December 1812
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/16Register of marriages, 18 January 1813 - 28 June 1837
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/17Register of marriages, 8 July 1837 - 22 January 1855
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/18Register of marriages, 10 February 1855 - 26 May 1890
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/19Register of marriages, 28 June 1890 - 26 December 1914
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/20Register of marriages, 26 December 1914 - 1 September 1927
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/21Register of marriages, 10 September 1927 - 25 May 1940
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/22Register of marriages, 25 May 1940 - 10 September 1953
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/39Register of marriages, 12 September 1953 - 6 August 1966
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 1/40Register of marriages, 8 August 1966 - 28 July 1979
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 1/44/1Register of marriages, 24 August 1979 - 11 September 1982
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 1/44/2Register of mariages, 16 October 1982 - 29 April 1989
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 1/44/3Registers of marriages, 20 May 1989 - 4 March 1996
(1 volume)
Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/BC 1/section 05)1/37-38, 1/41
Ref: EP/BC 1/37Register of banns of marriage, 9 October 1966 - 15 January 1984
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 1/38Register of banns of marriage, 5 February 1984 - 13 May 1990
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 1/41Register of banns of marriage, 10 June 1990 - 25 September 2005
(1 volume)
Registers of burials (Ref: EP/BC 1/section 06)1/23-31, 1/42, 1/45/1
Ref: EP/BC 1/23Register of burials, 2 January 1813 - 25 January 1838
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/24Register of burials, 7 January 1838 - 27 December 1856
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/25Register of burials, 27 December 1856 - 31 December 1904
Register marked 'Interments in new burial ground' (Victoria Road Cemetery) from 5 December 1859; subsequent burials in old churchyard are indicated
Most burials in the northern, Anglican, section of the cemetery, but register also includes burials officiated by non-conformist ministers, in southern section of Cemetery
Early records are for chapelry of Barnard Castle, later ones for parish of Barnard Castle
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/26Register of burials, 2 October 1880 - 13 July 1892 (duplicate of EP/BC 1/25)
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/27Register of burials, 16 July 1892 -31 December 1904 (duplicate of EP/BC 1/25)
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/28Register of burials, 9 January 1905 - 22 July 1918
Includes burials in non-conformist section of Victoria Road Cemetery
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/29Register of burials, 26 July 1918 - 13 February 1937
Includes Wesleyan burials until at least 1928
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/30Register of burials, 20 February 1937 - 11 November 1954
Volume is marked 'For all burials' and in part is a duplication of EP/BC 1/31
Grave plot information recorded from 1954
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/31Register of burials, non-parochial new church cemetery, 8 July 1927 - 3 July 1954
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: EP/BC 1/42Register of burials and interments of cremated remains, 13 November 1954 - 8 August 1978
Includes plot refs. up to January 1972
NB burials after 1978 are recorded in Barnard Castle Cemetery registers
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/BC 1/45/1Register of burials and interments of cremated remains, 16 August 1978 - 29 October 1999
Burials often include plot refs.
Church burials were discontinued after 1999; later records are with Durham County Council Bereavement Services
(1 volume)
Applications for banns of marriage (Ref: EP/BC 1/section 07)1/34
Ref: EP/BC 1/34Affidavit by James Edwards of Westwick, servant in husbandry, and Elizabeth Dawson of Westwick, householder, that they are both over the age of 21 and require that banns of marriage be called, 18 September 1822
(1 paper)
Publication of parish registers (Ref: EP/BC 1/section 08)1/33
Ref: EP/BC 1/33Letters from Herbert M. Wood, Hon. Secretary of Durham and Northumberland Parish Register Society, Sunderland to Rev. L.B. Ashby concerning publication of parish registers, 5 January - 23 June 1909
(13 papers and 1 booklet)
