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LESBURY

The location of the Parish of Lesbury (shown in green).
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"LESBURY is a parish comprising the townships of Alnmouth, Bilton, and Lesbury, and is bounded on the north by Long Houghton, on the west by Alnwick, on the south by High Buston and Shilbottle, and on the east by the German Ocean. It contains 2,624 acres, and the number of its inhabitants in 1801, was 874; in 1811, 858; in 1821, 982; in 1831, 976; in 1841, 1,108; and in 1851, it had increased to 1,238 souls. A portion of this parish extends across the river Aln into Coquetdale Ward." [From History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland, Whellan, 1855].

Census

• The 1851 Census Index (microfiche CN31) published by the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society may be of value to researchers interested in this parish.
  
  

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Church History

• The Ancestral Indexes website provides information about Alnmouth, St John.
  
  

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Church Records

• Lesbury - Church Records - links and information.
  
  

Civil Registration

• This area is within Northumberland North Second Registration District.
• Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be ordered from Northumberland County Council.
  Order Certificates.
  
  

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Description and Travel

• Photographs of Alnmouth from the FreeFoto.com website.
  
  
• Photographs of Alnmouth and Alnmouth Bay from Les Bell's Northumberland Cam website.
  
  
• The Northumberland Communities website includes pages relating to Alnmouth and Lesbury. They provide "a range of learning resource material that reflects Northumberland's heritage, providing a base for studying the County's history. The website provides a starting point for understanding the development of communities in Northumberland. It also seeks to illustrate the range of sources for family and local history research that are available via Northumberland Archives Service."
  
  

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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 Lesbury Parish is included in:- Northumberland County History Committee, History of Northumberland, Volume 2. Newcastle, A. Reid, 1895.
  
  
• LNER Wartime Evacuation Documents N.EVAC 2 and N.EVAC 3 describing the arrangements for evacuating children from Newcastle and Gateshead to rural parts of Northumberland (including Alnmouth), Co Durham, Yorkshire, Cumberland and Westmorland. The second document includes lists of schools with details of their places and times of departure and their destinations.
  
  

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Maps

• Maps of locations in this parish provided by Streetmap.
  
  

  Alnmouth, Bilton, Hawkhill, Hipsburn, Lesbury.

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Military Records

• A transcript of Alnmouth St John War Memorial provided by Ancestral Indexes.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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

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