Ancroft

• 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

• 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.

• Ancroft - Church Records - links and information.
• Bishops Transcripts Baptisms 1764 (with gaps) to 1797 can be accessed here:-  https://Northumberlandparishregistertranscriptslocalhistory.wordpress.com  please scroll down the page till you find the parish you require

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

• 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."

• Geograph
• Flickr

• 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.

• 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:

• 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.

• A transcript of Ancroft War Memorial provided by Ancestral Indexes.

LEST WE FORGET

• 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

The Roll of Honour for this parish is on an 11 x 8 inch card it can be found amongst the records for the parish depostied at the Northumberland Archives at Woodhorn

it contains 21 names

1914 - 1918

Geoffrey Lambton;  W.R.M. Crossman;  Joseph Edmonson, D.L.I;  George Naylor Leyland;   John A. Tower Robertson;  William Chambers K.O.S.B.;  David McNichol Blk Wtch;  Andrew Turner D.L.I;   L.Cpl John Athey Blk Wtch;     Thomas E. Edmondson D.L I.  John Mather N.F.;  Sergt. A. Middlemiss W. Yorks;  L.Cpl A.A. Scheurer M.R.;  Pte. R. Campbell Blk Wtch;  Pte. Jos. Hardy N.F.;  Private Jn. Hardy N.F.;  Pte. C. Johnston N. F.;  Pte. F. Patrick N.F.;         Pte. P Pomfret C.G.; Pte R. Pringle N.F.;  Pte W. Taylor