Durham St Nicholas Durham Family History Guide

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Durham St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Durham.

Other places in the parish include: Houghall

Parish church: St Nicholas

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1540
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1740

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Society of Friends/Quaker.

Adjacent Parishes

Durham St Nicholas Parish Registers

Baptism Records

Durham Baptisms 1560-1850

Durham, St Nicholas Baptisms 1787-1885

Marriage and Banns Records

Durham Marriages 1521-1934

Durham, St Nicholas Marriages 1787-1836

Death and Burial Records

Durham, St Nicholas Burials 1787-1835

Durham, St. Nicholas Burials 1540-1778

Bishops Transcripts

Explore the Bishops’ Transcripts for the Diocese of Durham (1639–1919) – This collection offers parish register copies submitted annually to the Bishop, covering baptisms, marriages, and burials across Durham, Northumberland, and parts of Yorkshire and Cumberland. Ideal for tracing ancestors when original registers are missing or incomplete.

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1740-1836

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1762-1841

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1765-1919

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1773-1869

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1787-1838

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1813-1848

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1850-1919

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1863-1893

Durham Bishops Transcripts 1878

Marriage Allegations

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

ATKINSON, Joseph, of St. Nicholas, in the city of Durham, 27, b., & Lucy Lake, of St. Michael’s, Winchester, 27, sp., at St. M., 20 Jan., 1834. Aff.

Durham St Nicholas Parish Records

Churchwardens’ accounts of Pittington and other parishes in the diocese of Durham from A. D. 1580 to 1700. Vestry Book of the Parish of Pittington. Extracts from Vestry Book of St. Oswald Durham. Extracts from Vestry Book of St. Nicholas Durham. Extracts from Vestry Book of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham. Publisher: Surtees Society Date of publication: 1888 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Poll Books

North Durham Poll Book Nov. 1868 Register of Voters for the Northern Division of the County of Durham 1868-9 and Poll taken 26 November 1868. Printed for Richard Laurence Pemberton, of the Barnes, and Hawthorn Tower, by Thomas Reed and Company, Sunderland. 1869. Publisher: Richard Laurence Pemberton Date of publication: 1869 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Parish History

See Durham, Durham Family History Guide

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Durham
  • Civil Registration District: Durham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Durham
  • Rural Deanery: Easington
  • Poor Law Union: Durham
  • Hundred: Durham City
  • Province: York