Wolsingham, Durham Genealogy

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

Parish History
WOLSINGHAM (St. Matthew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Weardale, NW division of Darlington ward, S division of the county of Durham, 10 miles WNW from Bishop Auckland, 16 WSW from Durham, and 259 NNW from London. There are places of worship for Baptists, Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans.

Additional information: Wolsingham is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Durham.

Other places in the parish include: Bradley, East Quarter, Knitsley Fell, Park Quarter, South Quarter, Tow Law, Town Quarter, Wolsingham North Moor and Wolsingham Park Moor.

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
Wolsingham 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
 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Roman Catholic
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions

 * Weardale 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
Wolsingham on GENUKI