England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe chapelry of Newbiggin lies on Northumberland's eastern North Sea coast about 7 miles east of the market town of Morpeth. Newbiggin chapelry was within the parish of Woodhorn. Newbiggin by the sea, the present village sits a mile east of the coastal A189 road which connects Newcastle with the length of the Northumbrian coast. As a coastal community Newbiggin would have benefited not only from the land, where pastoral farming dominated, but also from the sea, a fishing fleet specialised in crabs and herring as well as a wide range of white fish. In medieval times Newbiggin was a much more important place, for a while it was sufficiently important to merit a market but that status has since lapsed. Today Newbiggin's primary source of income is from the tourism potential of the Northumbrian coast, its curving smooth beach stands in sharp contrast to the industrial sites just inland. As a coastal community most drainage heads through underground systems to the nearby North Sea. Newbiggin is sited at sea level with the inland suburbs rising to just over 10 metres. The chapelry was tiny in extent covering little more than the village, itself, the total acreage of barely 500 acres would have supported close to 700 parishioners. Like all of northern England north of the Tees Newbiggin is not mentioned in Domesday Book which did not cover this area. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
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1755 - 13th January 1780 |
Northumberland Archives - Reference - EP21/8 |
Plain, ruled & bordered book containing combined Banns
& Marriages |
Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues
with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur
albeit few in number |
Fading of this register may result in a misread |
2 | 1780 - 1837 | There were no marriages at Newbiggin during this period all such events were recorded at Woodhorn |
Woodhorn
St Mary
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Woodhorn
St Mary
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Woodhorn
St Mary
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