Beadnell

• Northumberland County Record Office hold copies of Census Returns 1841-1891 and produce a useful handlist
• The 1851 Census Index (microfiche CN28) published by the https://www.ndfhs.org.uk/ may be of value to researchers interested in this parish.

The church stands in the main part of the village, and was built c.1740. Englarged in c1792 when a tower and spire were added. Entry to the church is via the porch at the base of the tower, this leads to the nave, rectangular in shape, without aisles.The chancel is small and the chancel arch is partially hidden by a wooden walkway there is a large stained glass window above the alter. The interior of the church as viewed today largely dates from the 1850s and 1860s It was about this time that the spire gained the addition of the octagonal crown or screen,

One of the stained glass windows in the south wall depicts St Oswald and St Ebba, It was designed by J. E. Nuttygens and installed as a War Memorial  for the men in the village who died in 1939-1945 war.

St Ebba to whom the church is dedicated was the daughter of King Aethelfrith, King of Bernicia, and sister to King Oswald of Northumbria who was converted to christianity, and was responsible for bringing Aiden over to Northumbria to whom he gifted Lindisfarne..

Ebba became a nun and founded a monastery on the site of the roman fort at Ebchester. In 635 she founded another religious house on the rocky headland known as Kirk Hill, which lies south of St Abbs Head (also named after her) though this is now well within Scotland at the time it was in the northernmost part of Northumbria.

There was a chapel dedicated to St Ebba on a promontory called Ebbs Nook near Beadnell Harbour this appears to have been built in the 1100s and was possibly the site of an earlier Anglo Saxon church, The present church is 3/4 of a mile to the north-west of the promontory.

Church of England Records.

• Beadnell, St Ebba: Records of baptisms 1766-1902, marriages 1767-1781, 1855-1902 and burials 1766-1935 are available at Northumberland Record Office
• Bishops' Transcripts for the period 1767-1838 are deposited at Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections, Palace Green, Durham City.
• The International Genealogical Index (I.G.I.) includes baptisms 1766-1812 for this parish
• Boyd's Marriage Index includes marriages 1767-1800 and banns 1767-1781.
• Transcripts of baptisms 1766-1812, marriages 1767-1781 and burials 1766-1812 are available at the Local Studies Departments of Newcastle Central Library and Gateshead Central Library. also at Tyne and Wear Archives.
  • A photograph of Beadnell, St Ebba supplied by George Bell.

Adjacent Parishes.

• The following parishes are adjacent to Beadnell:- Bamburgh.

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

• Photographs of Beadnell and Beadnell Bay from Les Bell's Northumberland Cam website.
• The Northumberland Communities website includes pages relating to Beadnell. 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."

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Beadnell to another place.

• Maps of locations in this parish provided by Streetmap.

  Beadnell.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NU230292 (Lat/Lon: 55.555954, -1.636958), Beadnell which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey 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)
• 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.

The war memorial for WW1 is located at St Ebba's church. It is a paper Roll of Honour handwritten in a plain wooden frame, the background border is painted pale blue within which is an elaborate rectangular design, with semi circles at each corner.

Halfway down is the words ;The Great War' painted in pink letters  with blue initials. The main panel is made to look like a scroll with the words 'Roll of Honour' and 'Beadnell Parish' are also painted in pink and blue.

The names of the fallen are at the top of the list, and unusally those who served are listed in three columns underneath, all hand written in old english script.

There are 58 names in total

ALLHUSEN, S. BARTRAM, A; BROWNE, M;  CRASTER, G; CRASTER, W.S.; DIXON, G.; DIXON, R.; DOUGLAS, T.; FAWCUS, T,; FAWCUS, T.; FAWVUS, A.; FAWVUS, G.; GRESHON, R.; HALL, J.; HALL, J.; HALL, R.; HALL, ROBERT.; HALL, T.; HALL, W.; HASLAM, A.D.; HODGSON, F.; HUNTER, C.; HNTER, J.; HNTER, T.; HUNTER, W.;   JOBSON, J. W.; KELL, A. J.; LIDDELL, J.; LOCKIE, A.; LOUGH, W.; MARSHALL, A.; MARSHALL, A.; MARSHALL, A.S.F.; ORD, T.; ORD. W.; ORMISTON, W.; OUUTERSON, T.;  PATTEN, A.; PATTEN, R.; PATTERSON, E.; PATTERSON, G.; SHORT, A.H.; SHORT, E.; SINDUPP, T.; SKIMMING, E.; SKIMMING, J.; SKIMMING, W.; STEPHENS, C.D.;        SUMMERS,A.;' THOMPSON, G.; THOMPSON, J.; THOMPSON. W.; THOMPSON, W.; THOMPSON, W.J.; TIFFIN, E.G.; TIFFIN, W.G..; WALTON, J. G.; YLE, G.G.;

• Beadnell Parish was part of Belford Poor Law Union. The Union Workhouse was located in West Street, Belford. Some records are held at Berwick on Tweed Record Office but these are of limited genealogical value.