Whitley Chapel, St Helen: Records of baptisms 1764-1995,
marriages
1765-1989 and burials 1764-1994 are available at
Northumberland Collections
Service.
Bishops' Transcripts for the period 1843-1888 are deposited at Durham
University Library Archives and Special Collections, Palace Green, Durham
City. The International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.) includes baptisms 1765-1842
and marriages 1765-1781 for this parish, but it is not included in Boyd's
Marriage Index. Transcripts of baptisms 1764-1851, marriages 1765-1781,
1844-1851 and burials 1764-1851 are available at
Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Dept. A
transcript of monumental inscriptions at Whitley Chapel (microfiche TN75) is
published by
Northumberland and
Durham Family History Society and these records are also available in book
form at Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies Department.
Early Primitive Methodist chapels in this area belonged to Hexham P.M. Circuit.
Records for 1824-1837 are included on the IGI (listed as Bull Bank or Bethania
Chapel).