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Whickham St. Mary Parish

Reference: EP/Whm Catalogue Title: Whickham St. Mary Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 01: Registration

Covering Dates: 1576-2020

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  • Whickham St. Mary Parish
    • Combined registers (Ref: EP/Whm section 01)
    • Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Whm section 02)
    • Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Whm section 03)
    • Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Whm section 04)
    • Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Whm section 05)
    • Registers of funerals (Ref: EP/Whm section 06)
    • Indexes to parish registers (Ref: EP/Whm section 07)

Catalogue Contents

Combined registers (Ref: EP/Whm section 01)

1-3

Ref: EP/Whm 1

Register of baptisms, 1576 - 1654; register of marriages, June 1579 - February 1653 and May 1667 - October 1696; register of burials, 1576 - 1619, 1625 - 1661 and 1667 - 1695 Notes of plague epidemics, 1610, 1645 and 1647; notes of induct ions, 1628 - 1946; lists of the twenty-four in 1633, 1637, 1641, 1644, 1647 and 1731; note of disbursements to the poor, 1643; note of the receivers of rent, 1647 and 1648; list of officers, 1648 - 1652; decision of the twenty-four concerning improvements to the church, 1649; appointment of the parish clerk, 1651, 1653 and 1688; appointment of sextons, 1725, 1734 and 1741 with a list of their duties; list of books and vestments of the church, 1733; note of lands given to pay for the repair of the church, 1 7 34; notes of land called Lady Long Garth, and Doyle Meadows, 1734; note of charitable bequests by Jane Blaikston, 1751, Robert Marshall, 1806; note of permission to erect pews, 1760 and 1814; note of the sale of land to redeem the land tax of the rectory, 1799; notes of gifts to the church, 1848, 1925 - 1932; newspaper cuttings concerning the reopening of the church, 1862
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 2

Register of marriages, September 1653 - 1663 and 1696 - December 1746; register of baptisms, March 1655 - March 1696 N ote of the appointment of parish register, 1653; copies of bequests in wills, 1697, 1725, 1738 and n d.; notes of agreements over pews, 1707, 1713, 1715 and 1726
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 3

Register of baptisms, March 1696 - March 1773; register of burials, March 1696 - March 1773 Note of the appointment of the parish clerk, 1727
(1 volume)

Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Whm section 02)

4-6, 38-42, 53-54, 65, 403-404, 535/1-3

Ref: EP/Whm 4

Register of baptisms, March 1773 - December 1797 Appointment of the sexton, 1788; note of the monument to Thomas Wood in Hackney
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 5

Register of baptisms, January 1798 - December 1819
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 6

Register of baptisms, January 1813 - January 1829 Entries for 1813-1819 are copied from EP/Whm 5
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 38

Register of baptisms, January 1829 - August 1845
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 39

Register of baptisms, September 1845 - September 1859
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 40

Register of baptisms, September 1859 - November 1874
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 41

Register of baptisms, December 1874 - September 1896
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 42

Register of baptisms, July 1896 - May 1925
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 53

Register of baptisms, 21 May 1925 - 27 April 1955
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 54

Register of baptisms, 26 June 1955 - 4 August 1968
(1 Volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 65

Register of baptisms, 11 August 1968 - 13 November 1983
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 403

Register of baptisms, 13 November 1983 - 22 December 1996
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 404

Register of baptisms, 22 December 1996 - 25 November 2001
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 535/1

Register of baptisms, 9 December 2001- 27 July 2008
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 535/2

Register of baptisms, 10 August 2008 - 13 October 2012
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 535/3

Register of baptisms, 13 October 2012 - 19 August 2018
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Whm section 03)

7-8, 43-48, 55-58, 66, 183, 406-407, 543/1-4
For marriages at Gibside Chapel see EP/Gib

Ref: EP/Whm 7

Register of marriages, January 1747 - April 1779
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 8

Register of marriages, May 1779 - December 1812
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 43

Register of marriages, January 1813 - June 1837
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 44

Register of marriages, July 1837 - October 1881
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 45

Register of marriages, November 1881 - December 1910
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 46

Register of marriages, January 1911 - January 1923
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 47

Register of marriages, January 1923 - September 1937
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 48

Register of marriages, September 1937 - June 1946
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 55

Register of marriages, 3 August 1946 - 31 July 1954
(1 volume cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 56

Register of marriages, 7 August 1954 - 31 July 1962
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 57

Register of marriages, 4 August 1962 - 13 December 1969
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 58

Register of marriages, 3 January 1970 - 3 April 1976
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 66

Register of marriages, 3 April 1976 - 21 August 1982
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 183

Register of marriages, 28 August 1982 - 10 September 1988
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 406

Register of marriages, 17 September 1988 - 7 August 1993
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 407

Register of marriages, 7 August 1993 - 27 July 2002
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 543/1

Register of marriages, 3 August 2002 - 13 July 2012
(1 volume, clothbound)

Ref: EP/Whm 543/2

Register of marriages, 18 August 2012 - 9 August 2014
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 543/3

Register of marriages, 24 August 2014 - 31 May 2018
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 543/4

Register of marriages, 2 August 2018 - 15 August 2020
(1 volume)

Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Whm section 04)

12, 60, 178, 184-195, 405

Ref: EP/Whm 12

Register of banns of marriage, 1758 - 1823
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 60

Register of banns, April 1877 - February 1896
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 178

Register of banns, 9 November 1823 - 20 May 1877
(1 volume, calf bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 184

Register of banns of marriage, 7 February 1897 - 21 August 1904
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 185

Register of banns of marriage, 21 August 1904 - 30 November 1913
(1 volume, calf bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 186

Register of banns of marriage, 7 December 1913 - 10 June 1923
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 187

Register of banns of marriage, 5 March 1933 - 16 June 1940
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 188

Register of banns of marriage, 22 June 1940 - 13 December 1953
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 189

Register of banns of marriage, 10 January 1954 - 28 February 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 190

Register of banns of marriage, 14 February 1965 - 30 June 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 191

Register of banns of marriage, 9 June 1974 - 23 April 1978
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 192

Register of banns of marriage, 9 April 1978 - 4 October 1981
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 193

Register of banns of marriage, 25 October 1981 - 26 May 1985
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 194

Register of banns of marriage, 12 May 1985 - 26 May 1991
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 195

Register of banns of marriage, 12 May 1991 - 27 August 1995
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 405

Register of banns of marriage, 24 November 1996 - 16 May 2004
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Whm section 05)

9-11, 49-52, 204

Ref: EP/Whm 9

Register of burials, March 1773 - December 1797
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 10

Register of burials, January 1798 - December 1819
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 11

Register of burials, January 1813 - August 1837 Entries for 1813-1819 are copied from EP/Whm 10
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 49

Register of burials, August 1837 - May 1857
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 50

Register of burials, May 1857 - May 1874
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 51

Register of burials, May 1874 - November 1896
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 52

Register of burials, November 1896 - January 1921
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Whm 204

Register of burials, 21 January 1921 - 10 October 1992
(1 volume, calf bound)

Registers of funerals (Ref: EP/Whm section 06)

408, 536/1

Ref: EP/Whm 408

Register of funerals, 29 February 1988 - 29 June 1998
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 536/1

Register of funerals, 26 June 1998 - 20 February 2009
(1 volume, plastic bound)

Indexes to parish registers (Ref: EP/Whm section 07)

67, 205, 518

Ref: EP/Whm 67

Index to parish registers, 1576 - 1896, by H.M. Wood, 20 July 1900
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 205

Index to burials, 22 January 1894 - 1992 Gives name, place of residence, age, section of the graveyard and grave number
(1 volume, calf bound)

Ref: EP/Whm 518

The Registers of Whickham: Marriages, 1579 - 1812, transcribed, indexed and edited by Herbert Maxwell Wood , printed by Hills & Co, 19 Fawcett Street, Sunderland, for the Northumberland and Durham Parish Register Society, 1898 and Notes on the Rectors of Whickham by Herbert Maxwell Wood, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, volume 8, pages 259 - 266, 1898
(1 volume, printed, leather bound)



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