Collierley, Durham Genealogy

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

Parish History
COLLIERLEY, a township, in the parish and union of Lanchester, W division of Chester ward, N division of the county of Durham, 10½ miles SW from Gateshead. There are places of worship for Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans.

Additional information: Collierley St. Thomas was created in 1843 from Lanchester, Durham All Saints. Other places in the parish include: Billingside, Dipton, Kyo, and Pontop.

Parts of this parish became part of these parishes: Annfield Plain St. Aidan (1914); Beamish St. Andrew (1873); Burnopfield St. James (1871); Dipton St. John the Evangelist (1883); Greencroft Mission (after 1900).

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
Collierley 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

 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions
Lanchester 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