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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
Search images and oral histories by the people of Easington and the surrounding area
Mining Durham’s Hidden Depths
Search for County Durham miners by name
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
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3 November 1821 Deed of partnership between Daniel Tuke of the city of York …
Read MoreD/HLB 1/17 – Beadle Collection
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A Plan of Building Ground at Bishop Wearmouth belonging John Harrison …
Read MoreD/X 1369/13 – Miscellaneous documents – Records of General Arthur Aylmer of Walworth Castle
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 38 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Read MoreQ/D/L 59 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward South West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 68 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward South West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 115 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward North
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Read MoreQ/D/L 118 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward North
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Read MoreQ/D/L 145 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward South
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'Mr Bayles Election By the Rector & the Churchwardens No. 7 1699' – 'Know all men by these presents that Wee Robert Rodham Rector of Rombald Kirk Thomas Kay Church Warden of Lartington John Willson Church Warden of Cotherston …
Read MoreD/WFH/Ed 6/2 – Dr William F Heyes Collection
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24 May 1791 (1) Mathew Shields of Lunehead …
Read MoreD/St/D3/2/89 – Strathmore Estate – Title Deeds: Wemmergill Estate (part 1, D/St/D/3/1-3)
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 15 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward Middle
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 35 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 39 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 41 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 125 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward North
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Read MoreQ/D/L 153 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward South
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None – O-T
Read MoreContains the records for people with surnames between O-T.
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3 October 1731 (1) Robert Smith of Durham …
Read MoreDu 1/50/21 – Durham City Council (1179 – 1974) – Corporation property
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Promissory note from John Rain of Holwick …
Read MoreD/X 1493/6 – Miscellaneous documents – Bowes estate records: Gibside and others
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 60 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward South West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 119 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward North
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 137 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward South
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 144 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward South
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 158 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward South
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Petition of John Rain of Bishopwearmouth …
Read MoreEP/St 14/66 – Stanhope St. Thomas Parish – Miscellaneous
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Lease for 7 years from William Cradock of Sandleford …
Read MoreD/Cr 45 – Cradock family of Gainford and Hartforth
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23 October 1731 (1) Robert Smith; Giles Rain; Henry Forster and Robert Wharton …
Read MoreDu 7/1/5 – Durham City Council (1179 – 1974) – St. Nicholas Lectureship
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Plans and related papers of Field House Farm …
Read MoreD/X 307/37 – Miscellaneous documents – Carr family of Bishopwearmouth
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11/12 May 1815 (1) William Bell of High Farm in Stanhope …
Read MoreD/X 1378/3-4 – Miscellaneous documents – Eastgate, High Farm, deeds
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 30 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 42 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 62 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward South West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 123 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward North
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7 December 1780 (1) William Rain of Holwick …
Read MoreD/St/D3/4/25 – Strathmore Estate – Title Deeds: Wemmergill Estate (part 2, D/St/D/3/4-12)
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Letter from Elizabeth Irwin of Knutsford to Surtees [Thomas Surtees Raine] on family and personal matters …
Read MoreD/X 332/270 – Miscellaneous documents – Sherwood family of Snow Hall, Gainford, and Raine family
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30 July 1777 Probate of the will (4 September 1775) of Henry Thompson of Greengill …
Read MoreD/X 751/1 – Miscellaneous documents – Gilmonby deeds
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15 January 1811 (1) Rev. John Fawcett of Newton Hall …
Read MoreD/X 1089/1/2 – Miscellaneous documents – Fawcett, Salvin and Lambton family estates
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 36 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 36 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 37 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 37 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 39 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward North West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 114 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward North
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 121 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward North
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 147 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Easington Ward South
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Abstract of title (1818 – 1883) of Briggs and Cockburn (trustees) to property in The Bank …
Read MoreD/HH 2/7/928 – Hanby Holmes – Case Papers: Wills and testamentary
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30 April 1741 (1) George Bowes (2) William Horn and Edward Rain Agreement for a lease for 21 years of a lead mine north of Long Crag near Mickle Fell Consideration: every 1/5 duty …
Read MoreD/St/B2/16 – Strathmore Estate – Business: Lead
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 27 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Chester Ward West
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Land Tax returns …
Read MoreQ/D/L 67 – Quarter Sessions – Land Tax Returns: Darlington Ward South West
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Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act, 1912, awards, August 1912 – February 1918 – O-T
Read MoreContains the records for people with surnames between O-T.