County Durham

In the North East of England, the county had one of Britain's richest coalfields and was once mined extensively. The land is hilly and rugged, and arranged around its castled capital, Durham. Jarrow, South Shields and Sunderland to the northeast are metropolitan areas with a great shipbuilding tradition. The Venerable Bede, known as the father of English, lived at Jarrow and lies in Durham Cathedral.

County town: Durham Other major towns: Sunderland, South Shields, Gateshead Durham Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• Durham County Record Office

• Teesside Archives

• Durham Libraries

• Cleveland FHS

• Durham County Local History Society

• Northumberland and Durham FHS

• Durham Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• Darlington Crematorium - Online Book of Remembrance

• Darlington Local Studies Library

• Darlington Railway Museum - Ken Hoole Study Centre

• Diocese of Durham Bishops' Transcripts

• Durham Crematorium - Online Book of Remembrance

• Durham Executions 1732 - 1909

• Durham Records Online

• The Durham Mining Project

• Durham Mining Museum

• Durham University Library - Archives & Special Colllections

• East Durham

• Keys to the Past

• North East History

• North East War Memorials Project

• UK North East Website and Genealogical Mailing List

• Teesside Crematorium - Online Book of Remembrance

• The Northern Echo, News, Sport, Business and more

• Weardale Museum

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Annfield Plain Family History Society

• Aycliffe Village Local History Society

• Bishop Auckland

• Boldron History

• Chester-le-Street Cemetery Burial Index

• Coundon & Leeholme

• Crook History

• West Cemetery Darlington

• Gravetext - Burial Records and Memorials in the Derwent Valley of North West Durham

• St Mary Easington Monumental Inscriptions

• Escomb Saxon Church

• Escomb Village

• Ferryhill/Duncombe Cemetery Burial Index

• Gateshead Local Studies

• Howden-le-Wear History

• Gateshead and Jarrow Methodist Circuit Family Tree Resources

• Hebburn

• Pictorial History of Jarrow

• Patrick Brennan's Jarrow Pages

• Lumley Cemetery Burial Index

• My Marras

• Welcome to Newcastle City Council

• Sedgefield History

• Silksworth and Tunstall in The Great War

• History of Skelton-in-Cleveland

• South Hylton Local History Society

• Spennymoor History - Local History, Pictures, Records and Information

• Spennymoor and Tudhoe Grave Register Search

• Holy Trinity Church Startforth

• Stockton Roots

• Sunderland Cemetery Index

• Sunderland City Council

• Sunniside Local History Society

• Trimdon Times

• The History of Tudhoe Village

• West Auckland

• West Cornforth

• Witton Park

Maps and Photographs

• Maps and Prints before 1860

• Pictures of Tynemouth

• Structural Images of the North-East

Register Office

Over the years county boundary changes have resulted in several changes to the district coverage. To avoid confusion try the following sites, they have links to local BMD index databases, certificate ordering and register office contact details.

Certificate Applications are now dealt with at a new purpose built site at Bishop Auckland.

• Durham BMD

• Register Office Locations and Contact Details

• Darlington Register Office

• Gateshead Births, Deaths and Marriages Online Search

• North East Births, Marriages & Deaths with links to 18 register offices from the England/Scotland Border in Northumberland down to Middlesbrough, an excellent resource for the whole of North East England.

• Sunderland City Council's Births, Deaths and Marriages Online Search

• Tees Valley Indexes - Register of Births, Deaths & Marriages

Requests for Research and Photographs in this area

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the Research Offers forum or on the following pages in the Wiki:

• Research Offers: Cemetery
• Research Offers: Photograph
• Research Offers: Probate
• Research Offers: Record Office/Archive

If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message on our Volunteers Needed thread.

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