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Index to parish registers, baptisms, marriages, and burials, volume 1, 1540 - 1854

Register of baptisms, September 1540 - May 1603, few entries 1551 - 1561; register of marriages, September 1540 - 1551, April 1561 - May 1603, July 1699 - July 1701, register of burials, September 1540 - 1551, November 1561 - April 1603, March 1699 - February 1705 Note of the beginning of a rebellion, 1549; note of a great flood, 1564; note of a serpent brought to Durham by an Italian, 1569; note of the building of a new bridge, 1574; price list of grain in a corn famine, 1587; list of those who died in the "great visitation", ie., the plague, 1597; note of the register being compiled in 1635

Register of baptisms, January 1603 - March 1730/1; register of marriages, June 1603 - February 1730/1; few entries 1644 - 1660; register of burials, August 1603 - February 1730/1 Lists of parish officers, 1603 - 1620, vestry minutes, 1603 - 20; list of burials due to plague, 1604; notes of gifts to the church including a cushion from Hugh Walton, Alderman, 1621; £10 for the poor from Mr. John Messinger, 1676; two silver flagons from Ann Clark, 1686; silver chalice from Mary Fenwick, 1686; a Bible, 1633; list of preachers, 1607 - 1611, 1667 and 1675; note of the decision of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners forbidding marriages except by banns or licence, 1686; extract from the will of Francis Callaghan leaving money for the poor, for a lecturer to preach on the anniversary of his death and for the bellringers to announce this.

Register of births, October 1653 - June 1658 and June 1699 - March 1705; register of baptisms, July 1653 - November 1654 and July 1658 - June 1700; register of marriages, March 1698 - March 1698/99; occasional entries 1699, 1702, 1703, 1723, 1724 Civil marriages for all Co. Durham, 1653 - 1659 and occasional entries 1690, 1696, 1697, 1671, 1698; register of deaths in October 1653 - January 1655/56 Durham City; register of burials, August 1678 - January 1694 and March 1698 - July 1699; register of Affidavits of burial in woollen, 1678 - 94

Register of baptisms, April 1731 - December 1812; register of marriages, May 1731 - February 1754; register of burials, March 1731 - August 1812 Note of the appointment of the parish clerk, 1805

Register of baptisms, January 1813 - November 1840 Note of appointment of the parish clerk, 1817,1819

Register of baptisms, November 1840 - September 1854

Register of baptisms, 15 September 1854 - 16 June 1963

Register of banns and marriages, May 1754 - April 1794 Notes for the clergy explaining the Marriage Act, 1754

Register of marriages, March 1794 - September 1810

Register of marriages, February 1813 - May 1837

Register of marriages, 17 July 1837 - 15 October 1872

Register of marriages, 23 November 1872 - 31 October 1923

Register of marriages, 24 November 1923 - 4 September 1959

Register of banns, 27 April 1794 - 23 March 1817

Register of banns, 30 October 1836 - 12 December 1858

Register of banns, 16 January 1859 - 29 December 1889

Register of banns, 9 February 1890 - 15 August 1915

Register of banns of marriage, 26 September 1915 - 4 April 1982

Register of burials, February 1813 - June 1846 One page of entries for 1861 Death certificates 1843 - 1846

Register of burials, 3 April 1861 - 17 July 1928

Register of burials, 17 July 1928 - 15 October 1976

Marriage licence of Henry Wanstall of Sadler Street, Durham, tea dealer and Charlotte Philips of Market Place, Durham, spinster, 7 May 1844

Marriage licence of John Patrick and Anne Jackson, both of the parish of St. Nicholas, 10 August 1844

Marriage licence of Joseph Dickinson Little of Middleton-in-Teesdale and Mary Thompson of St. Nicholas, 3 December 1844

Marriage licence of Robert Young and Mary Dixon, both of St. Nicholas parish, April 1847

Marriage licence of Robert Soulsby of Chester-le-Street and Alice Ord of St. Nicholas, 27 December 1847

Marriage licence of James Monks and Jane Scawen, both of St. Nicholas, 30 December 1847

Marriage licence of John Morron and Mary Ann Richardson, both of St. Nicholas, 23 September 1848

Marriage licence of William Alexander Malcolm and Frances Jane Cruddas, both of St. Nicholas, 11 March 1851

Marriage licence of William Clark of Claypath, chemist and Mary Ann Madgin of Claypath, spinster, 30 May 1851

Marriage licence of William Peacock of St. Giles and Hannah Stone of St. Nicholas, 17 May 1852

Marriage licence of John Robinson of Staindrop and Elizabeth Madgin of St. Nicholas, 17 January 1854

Marriage licence of John Grey of St. Nicholas, teacher and Margaret Stockburn of St. Nicholas, spinster, 21 August 1854

Marriage licence of George Chambers of Claypath, bachelor and Ann Wright of Silver Street, spinster, 5 July 1855

Marriage licence of George Richardson of 28 Lowndes Street, St. Luke's, Middlesex, bachelor and Jane Bradley of Claypath, spinster, 2 August 1855

Marriage licence of Charles Galbraith Mowbray of Liverpool, Lancashire, book keeper and Eleanor Proctor of St.Nicholas, spinster, 29 September 1855

Marriage licence of Hendry Thompson of Lyme Regis, Dorset, draper and Hannak Barnes of St. Nicholas, spinster, 1 October 1855

Marriage licence of George Salkeld of Cleasby, Yorkshire, butcher and Mary Ann Allen of St. Nicholas, spinster, 19 December 1855

Marriage licence of William Towns of Framwellgate, draughtsman and Mary Wright of Silver Street, St. Nicholas', spinster, 21 April 1856

Marriage licence of Thomas Smalley of Darlington, surveyor and Jane Thornes of Silver Street, St. Nicholas, spinster, 13 July 1856

Marriage licence of George Carr of Fishburn, farm labourer and Hannah Wass of The Sands, St. Nicholas, spinster, 10 August 1856

Marriage licence of William Green of West Rainton, countryman and Jane Bowes of Claypath, St. Nicholas, spinster, 23 August 1856

Marriage licence of John Nevison of Bishop Auckland, grocer and Anne Angus Walton of Claypath, St. Nicholas, spinster, 22 October 1856

Marriage licence of George Vann of Hulme, Manchester, salesman and Ellen Croudace of Elvet Bridge, St. Nicholas, spinster, 7 March 1857

Affidavit of William Cox and Jane Maclaine both of Claypath, lodgers as to their names and ages for the publication of banns of marriage at St. Nicholas' Church, 19 October 1822

Note of publication of banns at Brancepeth, 6 - 20 April 1856

Extract from Births and Deaths Registration Act 1874