Find your ancestors in Northumberland and Durham Marriages

Reveal your ancestors through four centuries of Northumberland and Durham marriages. You will find details of your relative’s marriage centuries before civil registrations of marriage. Discover your ancestors’ wedding date, location and age at their marriage.

Each of these records include a transcript of the original marriage transcripts. The data in each record can vary, but most will include the following information:

• Name
• Birth year
• Marriage date
• Bride’s name
• Bride’s age
• Groom’s name
• Groom’s age
• Place
• County and country
• Bride’s parish
• Groom’s parish
• Record set

Discover More about Northumberland and Durham Marriages

The Local Government Act, 1972 reformed the local government on the county and district levels in England and Wales. All the changes were put into place by 1974. For this reason, the Northumberland and Durham records includes villages outside of their current boundaries; such as, Newcastle in County of Tyne and Wear or Romaldkirk of the County of Yorkshire. Additionally, the records include Cumberland, which is now part of Cumbria.

The records includes over 800,000 marriages from 326 parishes. We have included a list of all the parishes you can find within the record set.