Ryton Durham Family History Guide
Ryton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Durham.
Other places in the parish include: Crawcock, Greenside, Crawcrook, Ryton Woodside, Crawbrook, and Chopwell.
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1581
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1765
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
- Tanfield
- Ovingham, Northumberland
- Winlaton
- Stella
- Newburn, Northumberland
- Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland
- Medomsley
Ryton Parish Registers
Baptism Records
Marriage and Banns Records
The Registers of Ryton, in the County of Durham. Marriages, 1581-1812. Transcribed, Indexed and Edited by The Rev. Johnson Baily. Publisher: The Durham and Northumberland Parish Register Society Date of publication: 1902 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Death and Burial Records
Ryton, Holy Cross Burials 1798-1839
Ryton/Holy Cross Burials 1771-1787
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.
Ryton Bishops Transcripts 1765-1867
Ryton Bishops Transcripts 1828-1867
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
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
RYTON, a village, a township, and a parish in Gateshead district, Durham. The village stands on the river Tyne, adjacent to the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 9¼ miles W of Newcastle; was burnt by the Scots in 1297; is now a picturesque place and a seat of petty-sessions; and has a station on the railway, a post-office under Blaydon-on-Tyne, Durham, a stone cross erected in 1795, and fairs on 12 May and 11 Nov. The township comprises 1, 203 acres of land, and 99 of water. Real property, £7, 542; of which £3, 393 are in mines, and £67 in fisheries. Pop. in 1851, 739; in 1861, 1, 140. Houses, 207. The increase of pop. arose from extension of collieries.
The parish contains also the townships of Ryton-Woodside, Crawcrook, and Stella; and comprises 5,581 acres. Pop. in 1851, 2,757; in 1861, 3,052. Houses, 594. The property is subdivided. Stella Hall is the seat of P E. Townley, Esq.; and there are several handsome villas. A house at the W end of the village includes fine Norman arches and mouldings, brought hither in 1862, by Archdeacon Thorp, from an old church in Durham. Limestone is quarried; and iron and steel are worked.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £956. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church is chiefly early English; was recently restored; and has a tower and spire 108 feet high. The parsonage is a fine old Tudor edifice. A tumulus, 20 feet high, is in a wood to the N. The rectory of Stella is a separate benefice. An Independent chapel, in the early English style, was built at Ryton in 1862. Two Methodist chapels, a slightly endowed school, and charities £21, also are at Ryton; and a Roman Catholic chapel is in Stella. Bishop Secker was rector.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Durham
- Civil Registration District: Gateshead
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Durham
- Rural Deanery: Chester le Street
- Poor Law Union: Gateshead
- Hundred: Chester Ward
- Province: York