Society of Genealogists - England: Northumberland Resources

Northumberland

Shelf Mark: Shelf Mark

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers
Marriage Licences
Monumental Inscriptions
Censuses
Directories & Poll Books
Periodicals
Wills
Parishes: A-H | I-Z

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland [&] Westmorland parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 11, part 1: Durham & Northumberland. London: SoG, 1984. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

List of parochial & non-parochial registers relating to the Counties of Durham & Northumberland : Durham tracts, vol. 1 [DU/G 2]

List of transcripts, partly in manuscript, of the parish registers of Northumberland & Durham in the Public Library, Newcastle upon Tyne: A volume of miscellanea: Publications of the Newcastle upon Tyne Records Committee, vol. 9 [NU/PER]

Notes on registers deposited at Northumberland Record Office: A - Morpeth only [Microfilm.] [Mf 4134]

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the British Origins website.

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

Miscellaneous strays for Northumberland & Durham: Northumberland registers, vol. 4 [Photocopy.] [NU/R 59]

Northumberland burials 1813-37 (Anglican) vols. 1-6; (non-Anglican) vol. 1 [Computer printout.] [NU/R 84-90]

Northumberland burials index 1813-37 [Microfiche.] [NU/REG/85977/1-18]

Northumberland Marriage Index 1813-37 [Microfiche.] [NU/REG/78972/1-22]

Out of the ordinary : a cornucopia of unusual Northumberland parish register entries [Shelf 9]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Cumberland & Northumberland Quarterly Meeting: Z 1648-1837 & supplement 1653-1743, M 1650-1837 & 1656-1732, B 1656-1837 & 1651-1743 (includes the Isle of Man) [Microfilm.] [Mf 3380]

Marriage licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

Diocese of Durham marriage bonds 1754-97 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet (DU/REG)]

Diocese of Durham marriage bonds 1594-1815, 1821, 1831, 1901 [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Diocese of Durham marriage bonds (miscellanea) 1594-1782 [Microfiche.] [DU/REG/93779/1-4]

Durham marriage bonds, 1662-86; index of women, vols 1 & 2 [Typescript.] [ML/DUR]

Durham marriage bonds 1664-74 [ML/DUR]

Testamenta Eboracensia: a selection of wills from the Registry at York, part 3 [abstracts 1395-1491, with a list of marriage licences & dispensations together with widows' vows of chastity 1374-1531] & part 4 [abstracts 1420-1509, with a list of marriage licences, dispensations, etc., 1308-1556]: Surtees Society publications, vols. 45 & 53 [DU/PER]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

Disused graveyards in Northumberland: extracted from Archaeologia Aeliana, vol. 13 (1887) [Photocopy.] [Shelf 9 (NU/MI)]

Northern counties monumental inscriptions: Yorkshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 23 [Manuscript.] [YK/M 60]

Northumberland (Civilian war dead roll of honour): MIs: Index to the civilian war dead roll of honour for Northumberland, Durham & Middlesborough [Microfiche.] [NU/MI/79184/1]

Northumbrian monuments, or the shields of arms, effigies & inscriptions in the churches, castles & halls of Northumberland: Publications of the Newcastle upon Tyne Records Committee, vol. 4 [NU/PER]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. Rothbury census of circa 1816

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

NORTHUMBERLAND - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

NORTHUMBERLAND - DIRECTORIES

NORTHUMBERLAND - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at British Origins. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at 1837-online

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

NORTHUMBERLAND - GENERAL:WILLS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Parishes

A-H

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Northumberland. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

I-Z

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Northumberland. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

Visit the GENUKI pages for Northumberland