Newburn Northumberland Family History Guide

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Newburn is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northumberland. Sugley is a chapelry of Newburn.

Other places in the parish include: Woolsington, Whorlton, West Denton, Wallbottle, Walbottle, Throckley, South Dissington, Scotswood, North Dissington, Newburn Hall, Newbiggin near Newcastle, Newbiggin, High Callerton, East Denton, East and West Whorlton, Dalton, Butterlaw, and Black Callerton.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1659
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1764

Nonconformists include: Methodist New Connexion, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Newburn 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.

Newburn Bishops Transcripts 1764-1819

Newburn Bishops Transcripts 1819-1856

Newburn Bishops Transcripts 1856-1880

Parish History

Newburn

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWBURN, a village, a township, and a parish, in Castle Ward district, Northumberland. The village stands on the river Tyne, near the Roman wall, 1 mile NE of Ryton r. station, and 5¼ WNW of Newcastle; was styled a borough in the time of King John; contains extensive steel-works; and has a post-office under Blaydon-on-Tyne. The township comprises 635 acres of land and 155 of water. Pop. in 1851, 938; in 1861, 1,008. Houses, 198.

The parish contains also the townships of Newburn-Hall, Sugley, Throckley, Wall-bottle, East Denton, West Denton, Newbiggin, East and West Whorlton, Butterlaw, Black-Callerton, South Dissington, North Dissington, and Dalton. Acres, 11, 566. Real property, £26, 586; of which £645 are in mines, and £4,000 in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 4, 307; in 1861, 4, 619. Houses, 923. The property is not much divided.

The manor belongs to the Duke of Northumberland. Copsi, in 1072, when quarrelling with Osulph about the earldom of Northumberland, fled from him to Newburn, took refuge in the church, and was murdered by him when attempting to escape. The Scottish army, in 1 640, planted their cannon on the Newburn side of the Tyne; crossed the river, under cover of its fire, to Stellahaugh; and there defeated the royal army under Lord Conway.

Coal is largely worked; and several coal-staiths, iron-works, glass-works, chemical-works, brick and tile manufactories, and a paper mill are on the banks of the river. George Stephenson, when a raw lad, drove the “gin” at Black-Callerton colliery; and he was married to his first wife in Newburn church. Salmon preserves, belonging to the Duke of Northumberland, are at Newburn and Lemington Point.

The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelries of Holy Trinity and St. Saviour, in the diocese of Durham. Value, £230. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church is ancient and cruciform, with a tower; was restored, partly rebuilt, and considerably enlarged in 1827; and contains monuments of the Delavals. There are a chapel of ease, a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £24.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Newburn-Hall

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWBURN-HALL, a township in Newburn parish, Northumberland; on the river Tyne, 1 mile E of Newburn. It contains the village of Lemington, and has coal-staiths and glass-works. Acres, 876. Pop., 703. Houses, 148. Lemington Hall is a chief residence.

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: Castle Ward
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Durham
  • Rural Deanery: Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Poor Law Union: Castle Ward
  • Hundred: Castle Ward; Tynedale Ward
  • Province: York