England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishNewcastle upon Tyne (hereafter simply Newcastle) lies in the extreme south of Northumberland forming part of the border with County Durham, the Tyne performs that boundary function. Newcastle is the major city of the county, its capital and seat of local administration. Newcastle is situated some 276 miles north of London and 117 southeast of Edinburgh and sits on the main A1 road (The Great North Road) which connects the two, modern communications also connect with the main East Coast rail line passing through Newcastle, a major stop and junction for the railway too. Once consisting of a just a short stretch of waterfront and hinterland, the metropolis that is today's Tyneside has engulfed many former villages and become contiguous to the North Sea coast and for almost 5 miles in every other direction. Newcastle's economy grew from its great strength as a port, the exporting of coal from Newcastle being almost a cliché but was certainly true, industries of many kinds grew up around the port, shipbuilding being one of the more obvious. The city also functions as the main market for its region, possesses all the shopping, and white collar businesses for a regional capital. Newcastle was not a city at the time of this transcript, that status being granted only in 1882. St Nicholas church then becoming the cathedral church. Newcastle sits on the banks of Tyne which drains the area to the nearby North Sea, a journey of 12 miles by river. The parish of St Nicholas is sited at around 30 metres above the sea, the banks of the Tyne rising steeply into the city, local heights rise nearby to almost 120 metres within a mile or so. St Nicholas parish formed the heart of the centre of Newcastle, it covered just a few city blocks yet supported over 5,000 parishioners. Newcastle is not mentioned in Domesday Book which did not cover this area of England. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 4th May 1754 - 7th November 1771 | Northumberland Archives - Reference - EP/86/12 | Plain, ruled book containing combined Marriages | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 25th November 1771 - 30th December 1790 | Northumberland Archives - Reference - EP/86/13 | Plain, ruled book containing combined Marriages | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 27th January 1791 - 16th February 1811 | Northumberland Archives - Reference - EP/86/14 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Bleedthrough of ink from backing entries might lead to one or two misreads |
4 | 17th February 1811 - 28th December 1812 | Northumberland Archives - Reference - EP/86/15 | Plain, ruled book containing combined Marriages | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
5 | 2nd January 1813 - 30th May 1830 | Northumberland Archives - Reference - EP/86/16 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
6 | 5th June 1830 - 24th June 1837 | Northumberland Archives - Reference - EP/86/17 | Nonstandard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register, it is nonstandard is nor being prenumbered that being left to the clerk to complete, the clerk continues the numbering sequence from the previous register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Newcastle
Upon Tyne St John
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Newcastle
Upon Tyne St John
Newcastle Upon Tyne St Nicholas |
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Newcastle
Upon Tyne St John
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Gateshead
St Mary, Durham
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Gateshead
St Mary, Durham
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Gateshead
St Mary, Durham
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