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www.weardalemuseum.co.uk • Are you searching for information about your A third major data-source available to the family The growing family history resource consists of; family history in Weardale? historian is our fully indexed transcripts of the gravestones of Weardale, encompassing 12 graveyards, 1. Censuses for Stanhope and Wolsingham Parishes 1841 • Would you like the technology to be able to more than 4000 memorials, and almost 8000 named to 1911 - computer searchable make a rapid search ? individuals. 2. Genealogical Database “Weardale People” in Family Tree Maker format – ca 64,000 individuals Perhaps the Weardale Museum 3. MI transcriptions for most Weardale burial grounds: Data from these three main sources — censuses, at Ireshopeburn can help. Copt Hill, Cowshill, Burtreeford, St John’s Chapel, parish registers, and gravestone inscriptions — Westgate, Eastgate, Rookhope, Stanhope St Thomas, have been brought together into our formidable Although the Durham County Record Office (www. Stanhope Cemeteries, and Wolsingham. genealogical database, “Weardale People”, which durhamrecordoffice.org.uk) is the custodian of 4. Selected transcripts of Wolsingham, Stanhope and St we run on a well-known commercial family history John’s Chapel Parish Registers of baptism, marriages an unrivalled collection of genealogy resources program, and which currently contains over 64,000 and burials. for the whole of , the Weardale individuals whose family relationships can be 5. Presbyterian Church Baptisms at Ireshopeburn 1783 – Museum has focussed its attention on the local displayed as ancestor charts or descendant trees. 1820 geographical region and can offer a unique and For those visitors who are not comfortable with 6. Tithe Maps and Apportionments for Stanhope and powerful resource — fully computer-searchable Wolsingham Parishes. computers, we hold many of our transcripts of the complete census of the Parishes 7. Stanhope Municipal Cemetery Burial Register 1872 – ... records in printed paper format. of Wolsingham and Stanhope (all of Weardale from 8. Collection of Weardale wills Wolsingham in the east to Killhope in the west) for 9. Collections of Weardale genealogies All of our stewards are volunteers all of the census years 1841 to 1911. 10. Collections of Family Letters – Watson, Fleming, so, if help and guidance is Graham, etc required to navigate and examine 11. Old maps – 1851, 1857, 1896 the computer files, it is advisable to make an 12. Transcripts of Deeds The computerised census files, which altogether appointment with one of our expert helpers (Ken) 13. Weardale War memorials. amount to more than 80,000 records, are in Tel. 01388 517208, (Eric) Tel. 01388 528085 or( 14. Stories of Weardale Emigrants spreadsheet format and very easily searchable by David) Tel. 01388 517433). 15. Postcard Collection of Weardale places. a number of useful fields — surname, forenames, residence, birthplace, A selection of useful websites And if you are doing your research from a distance we occupation, etc. — so that, for may be able to conduct searches for you. example, in the 1841 census all www.durhamrecordoffice.org.uk 214 Pearts in Stanhope Parish Forest www.familysearch.org Contact Quarter can be displayed in a matter of seconds. www.durhamrecordsonline.com www.findmypast.com [email protected] www.prov.vic.gov.au Eric Draper [email protected] www.ellisisland.org To complement the census files and to extend or [email protected] www.freebmd.org.uk our records back into the 18th century, we www.ancestry.co.uk have recently added transcripts of some of the We have no formal scale of charges for these services, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Wolsingham, Stanhope & St John’s Chapel Parish www.killhope.org.uk/Pages/LeadMining.aspx but donations to develop the Museum are very Registers, which record baptisms, marriages welcome. and burials. These files too are fully computer- The Trustees wish to thank all those individuals searchable in spreadsheet format. This on-going who have contributed to this growing The Weardale Museum is recognised by the Arts project will be extended to cover other periods and Family History Resource. Council England as an Outstanding Volunteer Run other parishes. Museum.