Newbrough Northumberland Family History Guide

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Newbrough is a chapelry of Warden Ancient Parish in Northumberland.

Other places in the parish include: Wharnley.

Alternative names: Newburgh

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1695
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1769

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Newbrough Parish Registers

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.

Newbrough Bishops Transcripts 1769-1878

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWBROUGH, or Newburgh, a parish, with a village, in Hexham district, Northumberland; on the South Tyne river, and on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, near the Roman wall, 1 mile W by N of Four-stones r. station, and 5 WNW of Hexham. It has a post-office under Hexham.

Acres, 6,705. Real property, £6,659; of which £1,400 are in miles. Pop. in 1851, 551; in 1861, 703. Houses, 136. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of new lead mines, and from increase of employment in the quarrying of freestone, and in the calcining of limestone. The S part, adjacent to the Tyne, is a rich tract; but the other parts are chiefly moorish upland. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Warden, in the diocese of Durham. The church is a neat stone building, with a tower. There are a United Free Methodist chapel, a mechanics’ institute, and a national school.

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: Northumberland
  • Civil Registration District: Hexham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Durham
  • Rural Deanery: Hexham
  • Poor Law Union: Hexham
  • Hundred: Tynedale Ward
  • Province: York