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GUIZANCE

The location of the Parish of Guizance (shown in green).
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"GUYZANCE, or GUYSON, is a township and village in this [Shilbottle] parish, the property of the Duke of Northumberland; Robert Delisle, Esq. the heirs of the late Thomas Fenwick, Esq., and Thomas Tate, Esq. The rateable value is £l,671 10s., and the tithes, which are the properly of Thomas Tate, Esq., are valued at £130 per annum. The number of inhabitants in 1801, was 172; in 1811, 186; in 1821, 173; in 1831, 197; in 184l, 205; and in 1851, 213 souls. THE VILLAGE of Guyzance is situated seven miles south by east of Alnwick. There was formerly a priory here, which was annexed to Alnwick Abbey, by Eustace Fitz John. We find from Tanner's Monastica that it was endowed with a portion of the tithes, and two bovates of land, but as to any other portion of its history we possess no records. The remains of the old chapel are still here, with the burying ground, in which the Tate family are still interred. BANK HOUSE, the seat of Thomas Tate, Esq., is situated about a mile north of the village." [From History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland, Whellan, 1855].

Formerly an extra-parochial area (also known as Brainshaugh) which was later included in Shilbottle Parish.

Census

• The 1851 Census Index (microfiche CN24, CN31) published by the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society may be of value to researchers interested in this parish.
  
  
• The Felton and Swarland Local History Society have published the following:
  • Index of Census Returns Vol 1, 1841 - 1851
  • Index of Census Returns Vol 2, 1861 - 1871
  • Index of Census Returns Vol 3, 1881 - 1891
    
    
  (The above volumes cover the villages of Acton, Bockenfield, Elyhaugh, Eshott, Felton, Guyzance, Hazon, Newton on the Moor Swarland and East and West Thirston. In addition, Vol 2 has a complete burial record, from 1819, of St Wilfrid's Chapel, Guyzance as an appendix and Vol 3 has a strays listing for 1851 from surrounding Enumeration Districts of people giving their birthplace in the Felton district.)
  
  

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Church Records

Church of England Records.

• An Index of Monumental Inscriptions of Acklington Church and Burial Register of Guyzance Chapel is available from the Felton and Swarland L.H.S.
  
  

Adjacent Parishes.

• The following parishes are adjacent to Guizance:- Felton, Shilbottle, Warkworth.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• This area is now within Northumberland North 2nd Registration District. Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be obtained from: Superintendent Registrar, Register Office, 6 Market Place, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 1HP. If ordering certificates from a District Office, please note the following:
  
  
  1. The cost of a certificate is currently (from 1st April 2003) £ 7.00 - send a Sterling cheque payable to the Superintendent Registrar plus return postage or two International Reply Coupons;
  2. The G.R.O. (St Catherine's) Index references are of no value;
  3. For marriage certificates, the precise place of marriage must be given;
  4. Civil Registration in England and Wales began on July 1st 1837.
     
     

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Gazetteers

• The section of The National Gazetteer (1868) relating to this parish - transcribed by Colin Hinson.
  
  

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History

• The history of Brainshaugh is included in:- Northumberland County History Committee, History of Northumberland, Volume 5. Newcastle, A. Reid, 1899. (Available on fiche from Ancestral Indexes).
  
  

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Maps

• The Landmark Information Group have provided free online access to 19th century Ordnance Survey maps of the whole of Great Britain. The following links will take you directly to maps centered approximately on the places named and you can then navigate (click on the map to re-centre or use the arrows) and zoom (using the buttons below the map) as desired.
  
  

  Brainshaugh, Guyance/Guizance.

• You can also view modern maps of the same locations provided by Streetmap.
  
  

  Brainshaugh, Guyance/Guizance.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• Guizance was part of Alnwick Poor Law Union. The Union Workhouse was located at Bondgate Without, Alnwick. Some records are held at Northumberland Collections Service, but these are of limited genealogical value.
  
  
• Peter Higginbotham has provided details and photographs of Alnwick Workhouse.
  
  

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