Gateshead Fell, Durham Genealogy

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

Parish History
GATESHEAD-FELL, an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish and union of Gateshead, locally in Chester ward, N division of the county of Durham. Besides morning and evening service at the church, evening service is performed at the hamlet of Wrekington. There are places of worship for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Methodists of the New Connexion.

Additional information: St John's Church was built in 1825 and was created out of the mother-parish of St Mary Gateshead. It includes High Fell, Low Fell, Wrekington and Sheriff Hill.

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
Gateshead Fell 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

 * Independent Methodist
 * Methodist New Connexion
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

Poor Law Unions
Gateshead 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
Gateshead Fell on GENUKI