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Church Registers Database

Find out what baptism, marriage and burial registers we keep and their covering dates

Easington: People, Past and Present

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Mining Durham’s Hidden Depths

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Binchester

From Roman fort to colliery village – explore archives, archaeology and local studies collections

Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

Durham Light Infantry objects, photos, memorials and memories of this military campaign in South Africa

Stockton & Darlington railway

Track the development of early railways in County Durham since the 1820s

In pursuit of perfection

Listen to John (Pop) Porter talking in 1976 about how to grow prize leeks at Peterlee

Birth, marriage and death certificates

Start with a quick surname check for records after 1837 held by County Durham’s registration service

Richard Annand, VC

The first British Army soldier of the Second World War to be awarded the Victoria Cross, in May 1940

Letter from M.A. Carteret …

D/St/C 5/6/5 – Strathmore Estate – Correspondence and personal papers: John Bowes correspondence

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Note: piece of paper 'From Lady Carteret to Miss Bowes' …

D/St/C 5/6/19 – Strathmore Estate – Correspondence and personal papers: John Bowes correspondence

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Copy manuscript history of Whickham …

EP/Whm 522 – Whickham St. Mary Parish – 14: Miscellaneous

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Defendant and respondents) answers to a bill of complaint in the matter of John Tempest v Edward [Carteret] …

D/Lo Acc 1251(D) Deeds 6 – Londonderry Estates – Additional Records Acc: 1251(D)

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Letter from M.A. Carteret …

D/St/C 5/6/9 – Strathmore Estate – Correspondence and personal papers: John Bowes correspondence

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Letter from M.A. Carteret …

D/St/C 5/6/7 – Strathmore Estate – Correspondence and personal papers: John Bowes correspondence

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East End Broad Meadows and other property belonging to and mortgaged by Sir William Chaytor. The interest in these mortgages became vested in the Hon. Edward Carteret who assigned it to John Tempest. Schedule 'I' …

D/Lo/D 301-315 – Londonderry Estates – Deeds (part 1)

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Papers in the matter of John Tempest v Edward Carteret and others over ownership of lands at Ferryhill …

D/Lo Acc 1251(D) Deeds 5 – Londonderry Estates – Additional Records Acc: 1251(D)

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Letter from M.A. Carteret …

D/St/C 5/6/12 – Strathmore Estate – Correspondence and personal papers: John Bowes correspondence

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Letter from M.A. Carteret …

D/St/C 5/43/4 – Strathmore Estate – Correspondence and personal papers: John Bowes correspondence

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Letter from M.A. Carteret …

D/St/C 5/6/11 – Strathmore Estate – Correspondence and personal papers: John Bowes correspondence

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