Sockburn, Durham Genealogy

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

'''Part of this parish is in Yorkshire. See also Sockburn, Yorkshire.'''

Parish History
SOCKBURN (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Darlington, partly in the SW division of Stockton ward, county of Durham, but chiefly in the wapentake of Allertonshire, North Riding of York, 7 miles SE from Darlington.

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
Sockburn 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

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Poor Law Unions

 * Darlington 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
Sockburn on GENUKI