In a message dated 01/08/2007 20:32:12 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello All Would anybody know how I can get hold of the Hetton Parish Records 1837-1841 that show show baptisms, deaths, marriages and also parish info for that time. Thanks Allan Robson Allan: Hetton le Hole parish records begin in 1832. For the periods in question they are now held at Durham County Record Office, where they may be viewed on microfilm. If all you want is a look-up then the Record Office's research service may be able to do that for you for a reasonable fee. However, I note that Hetton le Hole was primarily a coal mining district and, on the assumption that your family were possibly coal miners, we should bear in mind that mining families did move around a great deal, so the presence of one generation in Hetton does not mean that they are likely to have been there for many generations (though they could have been!). If you therefore need research, rather than a look-up, I could put you in touch with a reliable professional genealogist who could do that for you, for a realistic fee. Parish registers of the period you mention are in three separate sets of books: baptisms, marriages and burials (burials, not "deaths"!) but, unlike earlier (1812 and before) ones, they tend not to have any other parish information in them. You or your researcher would need to look for any other Hetton le Hole parish documents which have been deposited in the Record Office. As we are dealing with the period after the Poor Law of the 1830s, there is not likely to be much of that type, though there may be some about other aspects of church administration. Geoff Nicholson