Ancroft
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"ANCROFT PAROCHIAL CHAPELRY. Consists of the four townships of Ancroft, Cheswick, Haggerston, and Scremerston, and the three villages of Ancroft, Cheswick, and Greensis, the joint populations of which, in 1801, amounted to 1144, in 1811 to 1236, and, in 1821, to 1378 persons, comprising 266 families, living in 255 houses, which, with the other buildings and lands in the chapelry, were estimated, in 1823, for the Durham county rate, at the annual value of £10,542 10s." [From History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the counties of Durham and Northumberland, Parson and White, 1828]
Census
- Northumberland County Record Office holds copies of Census Returns 1841 - 1891 and provides a useful handlist
- The 1851 Census Index (microfiche CN25) Ancroft, Holy Island, Kyloe and Scremerston (PRO piece HO107/2421 folios 1-142) (Type B) (Book)
- 1891 Census Northumberland – Norhamshire and Islandshire (Buckton, Fenwick, Fenham, Goswick, Beal, Holy Island, Berrington, Kyloe, Ancroft, Cheswick, Haggerston, Scremerston, Horncliffe, Loan End, Longridge, Thornton, Shoreswood, Felkington, Norham Mains, Norham, Grindon, Duddo, Twizell, Tillmouth, Heaton, Cornhill, ship, Unity of Boston) (PRO piece RG12/4269) (Type B) (Book) (Volume 79) BOTH published by the https://www.ndfhs.org.uk/ may be of value to researchers interested in this parish
Churches
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Ancroft area or see them printed on a map.
Church History
- Ancroft, St Anne:- The Ancestral Indexes website provides information under the headings Church and Monumental Inscriptions. The site also provides information about Scremerston, St Peter.
Church Records
- Ancroft - Church Records - links and information.
Civil Registration
- This area is within Northumberland North First Registration District.
- Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be ordered locally from Northumberland County Council.
Description and Travel
- Photographs of Cheswick Sands from Les Bell's Northumberland Cam website.
- The Northumberland Communities website includes pages relating to Ancroft and Scremerston. 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."
You can see pictures of Ancroft which are provided by:
Gazetteers
- The section of The National Gazetteer (1868) relating to this parish - transcribed by Colin Hinson.
Ask for a calculation of the distance from Ancroft to another place.
Click here for a list of nearby places.
Historical Geography
You can see the administrative areas in which Ancroft has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
Maps
- Ancroft - Maps - links and information.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NU002451 (Lat/Lon: 55.699356, -1.998383), Ancroft which are provided by:
- This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
- Google Streetview
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap
- Bing (was Multimap)
- OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
- Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
- National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- Elgin Road Works
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Military Records
- A transcript of Ancroft War Memorial provided by Ancestral Indexes.
LEST WE FORGET
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
- Ancroft Parish was part of Berwick-upon-Tweed Poor Law Union. The Union Workhouse was located in Castlegate, Berwick-upon-Tweed. Some useful records are held at the Record Office at Berwick
- Peter Higginbotham has provided details, a map, a plan and photographs of Berwick-upon-Tweed Workhouse.