This User Guide gives details of the registers held at the Tyne & Wear Archives Services office for Catholic Parishes in Tyne and Wear, and microfilm copies available for some Parishes outside Tyne and Wear.

Some explanatory notes and examples of Latin register entries are included.

Please note, it is not normally possible to produce unlisted collections for consultation in the Search Room.

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A

• Annitsford, St John (MF 2047)
  • x 1863-1919
  • m 1873-1899
  • d 1863-1937

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B

• Backworth, Our Lady and St Edmund's (Ref C/BA1)
  • x 1901-1955
  • m 1901-1927
  • d 1901-1921

• Bells Close, St George (Ref C/LM1)
  • x 1869-1925
  • m 1872-1934
  • d 1884-1885, 1918-1930

• Benton, St Aidan (Ref C/LO7)
  • x 1900-1962
  • m 1911-1957
  • d 1912-1952

• Birtley, St Joseph's (Ref C/BI3)
  • x 1745-1953
  • m 1846-1955
  • d 1856-1959

• Blaydon, St Joseph's (Ref C/BL4)
  • x 1898-1936
  • m 1899-1921
  • d 1904-1992

• Byermoor, Sacred Heart (Ref C/WH1)
  • x 1869-1937
  • m 1873-1910
  • d 1873-1927

• Byker, St Lawrence (Ref C/NC63)
  • x 1907-1953
  • m 1907-1947, 1974-1989*
  • d 1907-1968

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C

• Crawcrook, St Agnes (Ref C/CK1)
  • x 1892-1953, 1962-1973
  • m 1894-1956, 1988-1992*
  • d 1902-1957

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D

• Dunston, St Philip Neri (Ref C/GA24)
  • x 1882-1949
  • m 1884-1905, 1908-1935
  • d 1882-1896, 1902-1954

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F

• Felton (Northumberland), St Mary (MF 2047)
  • x 1811-1840

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G

• Gateshead, Our Lady and St Wilfrids (Ref C/GA27)
  • x 1903-1959
  • m 1903-1939
  • d 1903-1956

• Gateshead, St Joseph's (Ref C/GA20)
  • x 1851-1854, 1857-1938
  • m 1860-1968
  • d 1851-1854, 1857-1861, 1877-1879, 1900-1925

• Gosforth, St Charles (Ref C/GO7)
  • x 1868-1952
  • m 1889-1969
  • d 1892-1901, 1919-1970

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H

• Haltwhistle (Northumberland), St Wilfred (MF 2047)
  • x 1860-1900

• Haydon Bridge (Northumberland), St John (MF 2047)
  • x 1875-1921

• Hebburn, St Aloysius (Ref C/HB10)
  • x 1871-1948
  • m 1886-1987
  • d 1874-1986

• Houghton le Spring, St Michael (Ref C/HS2)
  • x 1845-1958, 1963-1984
  • m 1848-1953, 1981-1993*
  • d 1856-1993

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J

• Jarrow, St Bede (Ref C/JA7)
  • x 1861-1954
  • m 1863-1949
  • d 1872-1988

• Jesmond, Holy Name (Ref C/NC80)
  • x 1902-1927
  • m 1904-1975
  • d 1902-1993

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L

• Longbenton, St Aidan's Church Hall (Ref C/LO3)
  • m 1972-1987*

• Longhorsley (Northumberland), St Thomas (MF 2047)
  • x 1848-1921

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N

• Newcastle, St Andrew (Ref C/NC76)
  • x 1778-1923
  • m 1837-1934
  • d 1863-1958

• Newcastle, St Dominic's Priory (Ref C/NC75)
  • x 1873-1947
  • m 1874-1953
  • d 1873-1970

• Newcastle, St Mary's Cathedral (Ref C/NC77)
  • x 1844-1862, 1869-1954
  • m 1844-1919
  • d 1844-1853, 1856-1918

• North Shields, St Cuthbert's (Ref C/NS14)
  • x 1807-1809, 1840-1952
  • m 1821-1931
  • d 1856-1955

• North Gosforth, Sacred Heart (Ref C/GO9)
  • x 1912-1959
  • m 1914-1971
  • d 1926-1993

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P

• Penshaw, Our Lady Queen of Peace (Ref C/PE4)
  • x 1921-1973
  • m 1923-1966
  • d 1924-1972

• Prudhoe (Northumberland), Our Lady and St Cuthbert (MF 2047)
  • x 1870-1918
  • m 1877-1921
  • d 1877-1981

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R

• Ryhope, St Patrick's (Ref C/RH5)
  • x 1897-1963
  • m 1897-1969
  • d 1897-1990

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S

• Silksworth, St Leonard's (Ref C/SI2)
  • x 1873-1956
  • m 1874-1969
  • d 1874-1891

• South Shields, St Bede (Ref C/SS29)
  • x 1857-1952
  • m 1856-1963, 1981-1992
  • d 1857-1881, 1883-1984

• South Shields, St Cuthbert's (Ref C/SS30)
  • x 1849-1857
  • m 1851-1858 (For continuation see the records of St Bede)

• Southwick, St Hilda's (Ref C/SU76)
  • x 1905-1968
  • m 1909-1970
  • d 1908-1995

• Stella, SS Mary and Thomas Aquinas (Ref C/BL3)
  • x 1775-1838, 1840-1855, 1856-1871
  • m 1776-1795, 1797, 1841-1855
  • d 1775-1783, 1786-1787, 1790, 1856-1887

• Sunderland, Bridge Street, St Mary's (Ref C/SU71)
  • x 1809-1990
  • m 1825-1962
  • d 1825-1829, 1856-1988

• Sunderland, Millfield, St Joseph's (Ref C/SU72)
  • x 1873-1992
  • m 1892-1952
  • d 1877-1953

• Sunderland, St Patrick's (Ref C/SU73)
  • x 1862-1984
  • m 1863-1984
  • d 1901-1985

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T

• Tyne Dock, SS Peter and Paul (Ref C/SS32)
  • x 1885-1956
  • m 1891-1957
  • d 1890-1984

• Tynemouth, Church of Our Lady and St Oswin (Ref C/TY3)
  • x 1871-1964
  • m 1875-1964
  • d 1872-1959

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W

• Wallsend, Our Lady and St Columba (Ref C/WA9)
  • x 1885-1928
  • m 1886-1973
  • d 1889-1985

• Washington, Our Blessed Lady Immaculate (Ref C/WS8)
  • x 1862-1908
  • m 1865-1920
  • d 1879-1907

• Willington Quay, Our Lady and St Aidan (Ref C/WT3)
  • x 1865-1943
  • m 1869-1963
  • d 1919-1966

• Wrekenton, St Oswald's (Ref C/GA25)
  • x 1892-1961
  • m 1893-1964
  • d 1893-1992

Catholic registers available here are nearly always written in Latin with the exception of some very recent registers. To help the searcher understand the meaning of the Latin parts of the registers, a copy of a baptism, marriage and death entry is shown below with a translation.

Please note that the main difference between Latin and English is that in English the position of a word in a sentence will generally show how the word is being used, whereas in Latin it is the ending of a word which indicates its function and so word endings do change.

A list of the more common Latin Christian names with their English equivalent is included. The endings of these names will also be different depending on their position and meaning in the register entry. Also, the most common ending for a male name is "us" and for female "a". Sometimes the male and female version of a name can be shown by the ending e.g. Patricius/Patricia - Patrick/Patricia.

Die   20th Decembris 1913 nata, et  die  25th  Januarii  1914
baptizata est Gladys Ethel Jobling filia Jacobi et Margaritae
Jobling [olim Knotts] conjugum
a me   Thomas Hartley
patrinus fuit    Daniel McGuiness
matrina fuit    Maria Clark

Born on the 20th December 1913 and baptised on  25th  January
1914  Gladys  Ethel  Jobling  daughter  of James and Margaret
Jobling [nee Knotts] by me Thomas Hartley
Godfather was Daniel McGuiness
Godmother was Mary Clark

anno 1905 die   15   mensis  Junii   ego   A O'Keefe
in matrimonio conjunxi  Henricum  Longstaff  filium  Gulielmi
Longstaff
et Lilly Grundy filiam Roberti Grundy
praesentibus   testibus      Jacobus   Longstaff,   Gulielmus
Lambert, Lucy Grundy, Hanna Nattrass

on the 15  June  1905  I,  A  O'Keefe,  joined  in  matrimony
Henry Longstaff  son  of  William  Longstaff and Lilly Grundy
daughter of Robert Grundy

Witnesses, James Longstaff,  William  Lambert,  Lucy  Grundy,
Hanna Nattrass

Anno   1917, die 25      mensis  Junii
Martinus  Connelly   ex Blaydon,   aetatis 76,  in communione
S. Matris Ecclesiae, animam Deo reddidit Sacramentis munitus,
cujus  corpus die 28 mensis Junii  sepultum est in coemeterio
apud Blaydon

In the year 1917, on the 25th  day  of  the  month  of  June,
Martin  Connelly  from Blaydon, 76 years of age, in communion
with the Holy Mother Church, fortified  with  the  sacraments
gave  his soul to God, his body was buried on the 28th day of
the month of June in Blaydon cemetery.