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Title: What parish?
Post by: eeyorebob on Monday 03 May 10 07:57 BST (UK)

Hi

In the course of my research i've come across some lovely helpful people at record offices (mainly being that i'm the other end of the country to the record office needed lol) but the problem i have is if its a largish area they tend to ask me what parish it occured in - is there an easy way to figure this out if all i have is the "place"

Ta

Title: Re: What parish?
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Monday 03 May 10 08:02 BST (UK)

Hi Bob,

try putting place-name genuki in a search engine.  This will give you a link to the GENUKI pages for this place, where parishes and relevant record offices will usually be described. 

Another possibility is ParLoc - Parish Locator - which you can find here:
http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

regards,
(another) Bob

Title: Re: What parish?
Post by: eeyorebob on Monday 03 May 10 08:04 BST (UK)

Cheers Bob

the problem comes when you have somewhere as large (now) as "sunderland" as there are quite a few lol

still hopefully that information will help :)

Title: Re: What parish?
Post by: Just Claire on Monday 03 May 10 08:20 BST (UK)

At the top of the UK census sheets the 'Ecclesiastical Parish' is shown along the same row where the Town/Municipal Borough or Ward and County is stated, which might help you to locate which Parish/Church you are looking for.

I've found relatives in St. Lukes, Chelsea in the Census for the Ecclesiastical Parish and the children's baptisms took place at St. Luke's Church, Chelsea.

Hope this helps.

Claire

Title: Re: What parish?
Post by: eeyorebob on Monday 03 May 10 08:23 BST (UK)

Hi Clare

Thanks for that :)

I've found that useful for cenus information 1841 onwards, however if looking up a marriage and all i know from the "record" is that it was "Sunderland" without requesting the marriage cert (and that gets expensive with the repeating christian names let alone the surname lol) it gets difficult hehehe

Title: Re: What parish?
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 03 May 10 09:54 BST (UK)

Quote from: eeyorebob on Monday 03 May 10 08:04 BST (UK)

Cheers Bob

the problem comes when you have somewhere as large (now) as "sunderland" as there are quite a few lol

still hopefully that information will help :)

The Durham 'Place Names Index' can help you to determine which Church of England parish a County Durham place/settlement was situated in, at any given date.
http://nd.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice/dro.nsf/vwebplaces

Basically there were three parishes in Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, and Monkwearmouth, untill the 19th century when, because of the increase in population, they were gradually split into smaller parish units.

Stan

Title: Re: What parish?
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 03 May 10 09:58 BST (UK)

This site shows English Parishes as of 1851 http://maps.familysearch.org/ although there are some errors in the maps showing the boundaries.

Stan