Catalogue

Birtley: baptisms, 1745 - 1826, 1828 - 1840 Bishopwearmouth: baptisms, 1809 - 1829 Darlington: baptisms, 1783 - 1824 Durham (Secular Mission): baptisms, 1739 - 1821; marriages, 1739 - 1769, 1801; confirmations, 1764, 1791, 1798, 1808 Durham (Jesuit Chapel): baptisms, 1768 - 1827

Hardwick: baptisms, 1743 - 1747 Pontop: baptisms, 1778 - 1792, 1794 - 1827; marriages, 1779 - 1802; deaths, 1778 - 1790, 1819 - 1827; confirmations, 1783 - 1789, 1822; state of the congregation, 1779; communicants, 1804 - 1805 South and North Shields: baptisms, 1784 - 1790; marriages, 1784, 1786; deaths, 1784 - 89 Stella: baptisms, 1775 - 1832; a list of Stella Congregation baptised by the Rev. T. Cock, 1827 - 1836 Stockton: baptisms, 1783 - 1840

Cheeseburn Grange (Northumberland): baptisms, 1775 - 1840; deaths, 1786 - 1797; confirmations, 1823; confirmations at Stella, 1839 Minsteracres (Northumberland): baptisms, 1766 - 1794; marriages, 1772 - 1836; deaths, 1765 - 1839; confirmations (some of these at places in Durham), 1783, 1788, 1796, 1804, 1831, 1832 Morpeth (Northumberland): baptisms, 1780 - 1837; marriages, 1808 - 1840; deaths, 1804 - 1868; confirmations, 1845 - 1867; first communicants, 1832 - 1838; converts, 1803 -- 1836 Newcastle (Secular Mission): baptisms, 1765 - 1794; state of the congregation, n.d., c.1770 - 1780 North and South Shields: baptisms, 1807 - 1809 Thropton (Northumberland): baptisms, 1769 - 1840; marriages, 1772, 1773, 1815, 1821; deaths, 1797 - 1839; confirmations, 1783, 1809, 1823, 1831; index of baptisms, 1769 - 1824 Witton Shields (Northumberland): baptisms, 1789 - 1803; deaths, 1796 - 1801 Whittingham Parish Church (C.E.): extracts from Volume 2 recording the baptisms of children of Catholic and Presbyterian parents, 1706 - 1812

Register of Bishop Leyburne's Confirmation Tour in the North East of England(with Index), 1687 Miscellaneous papers re Catholic affairs in England and on the Continent, 1688 - 1715

A list of all the Papists or reputed Papists within the County Palatine of Durham (including Northumberland) compiled in connection with the Papists Removal and Disarming Bill, 1680 Return of Papists, 1705 (arranged alphabetically by parish, includes Northumberland)

Return of Papists in Durham, 1767 (arranged alphabetically by parish) Copy of an article entitled 'Catholicism in the Diocese of Durham 1767' by Dr. A. Forster in The Ushaw Magazine, No. 215, July 1962

Recusant Rolls, 1596 - 1602, 1604 - 1609, 1619 - 1621, 1636 - 1637

Recusant Rolls, 1648 - 1649, 1671 - 1675, 1678 - 1679, 1680 - 1681

Recusant Rolls (extracts), 1595 - 1599, 1601 - 1623

Recusant Rolls (extracts), 1623 - 1636

Miscellaneous MSS relating to recusancy in Durham and Northumberland, 1594 - 1641

(i) Hodgsons of Hebburn, Brandon, Winlaton, Lanchester, Lintz, Manorhouse, Blaydon, Lumley (Durham), Newcastle, Jesmond Dene and Tone (Northumberland) Notes re priests at Hebburn, Tanfield, Beamish, Lintz, Stanley and missions at Pontop Hall (now Brooms) and Tone, (16th - 19th centuries) (ii) Salvins of Croxdale, Tudhoe, Thornton Hall and Heworth Notes on Salvin chaplains, the missions at Croxdale, Tudhoe, Burnhall, Owton, (16th - 20th centuries) (iii) Trollops of Thornley, including article re family from The Ushaw Magazine, No. 227, by A.M.C. Forster, July 1966; notes re Mass Centre at Thornley, (15th - 17th centuries)

Forcers of Harbourhouse, including: Extracts from Recusant Rolls (transcripts and translations) relative to the Forcer family, 1591-1635 (original MSS in Ushaw College Library); notice re Father John Forcer S.J. (1581 - 1630) (copied from Foley, Vol. 3, p.106); extract from The Ushaw Magazine article by A.M.C. Forster 'The Recusancy of Thomas Forcer (1557 - 1622)', December 1956; the Judgement of the Barons of the Exchequer granted to John Forcer of Harbourhouse for a discharge from liability of all debts incurred by his grandfather Thomas Forcer by reason of his recusancy 1639 (original memoranda roll in P.R.O.), (16th - 18th centuries)

(i) Claverings of Callaly, Learchild,Bowsdon and Tillmouth, Berrington and Upper Trewhitt (Northumberland), Axwell (Durham), Gamlingay (Cambridgeshire) Notes re missions at Callaly, Berrington, (16th - 19th centuries) (ii) Riddells of Newcastle, Fenham and Swinburne, Longhorsley and Felton, Cheeseburn Grange (Northumberland,) Gateshead (Durham) Notes re missions at Gateshead, Swinburne, Longhorsley, Felton, Cheeseburn Grange, (16th - 20th centuries)

(i) Withams of Cliffe (Yorkshire), Stockton, Preston-le-Skerne, Fawside (Durham) Notes re history of the property in Old Elvet, Durham belonging to the Secular Mission formerly in the possession of the Withams and the missions in New Elvet, Durham and Cliffe, (16th - 19th centuries) (ii) Blakistons of Blakiston, Shieldrow, Newton Hall, Gibside, Coxhoe, Great Chilton, Seaton, Burdon, (15th - 18th centuries) (iii) Maires of Hardwick, Hartbushes, Hedleyhope, Barnacre (Lancashire), Lartington (Yorkshire), also will of Margaret Howard, daughter of Robert Maire and Helen Conyers, wife of Charles Howard of Sunderland Bridge, 1718 Notes re missions at Hardwick, Gilesgate Durham, Lartington (Yorkshire) and priests at Hartbushes; notes re the Hardwick Fund and the Maire legacies, (16th - 19th centuries)

(i) Printed copy of Recusant Roll, 1615 (20 copies of this were published for Sir Cuthbert Sharp at the request of Robert Surtees who provided the original text - this copy is in the Greenwell MSS in the Central Library, Newcastle) (ii) A list of MSS preserved at Priors' Kitchen in the Sharp MSS several concerning recusants (taken from the Quarter Sessions records), (16th - 18th centuries) (iii) Transcripts of some of above viz: Sharp MSS.110 (1st item): 'List of Recusants presented at the Assizes, Durham 11 August 1628' Sharp MSS.79: 'A list of all Popish Recusants and reputed Papists within the County of Durham in December 1680' Sharp MSS.110: 'Warrant addressed to Adam Gofton to summon Papists named in schedule enclosed to make repeat and subscribe the Declaration and to seize the horses and arms of Papists; to keep the same safe until the next general Quarter Sessions under the pain of £1,000, Durham 29th October, 1689' Sharp MSS.110: 'A list of ye Papists horses and arms seized for their Majesties uses, Durham 16th January 1689'