Appleby/Applebee families from Northern England

A number of Appleby lines are known to have originated from the northern counties of England, particularly in County Durham where many were involved in the coal and shipping industry of sunderland and Bishopwearmouth. I am very grateful to Colin Appleby, who has contributed charts for several major lines of Applebys. You can read much more about these families, and also about some of the places where they lived, on Colin's own website which also provides some history of the Appleby surname.

Applebys of Acklington, Morpeth , Northumberland and East Peoria, Illinois, USA Margaret and George Appleby of Sunderland, County Durham William and Margarite Apleby of Bishopwearmouth, County Durham William and Ellen Apleby of Bishopwearmouth, County Durham Henry Appleby of Kirkby Malzeard, Yorkshire Barnabas Appleby of South Shields, some of his descendants emigrated to Australia and some to Wisconsin William Appleby of Kirkby Fleetham and West Rounton, Yorkshire James Appleby of Hurworth-on-Tees, County Durham Robert Appleby of Barnard Castle, County DurhamThomas Appleby of Whitby, whose descendants emigrated to Argentina and Chile Thomas Appleby of Leeds, one branch of his family lived in India for several generations, another emigrated to California, USA William Appleby of Framwellgate, Co Durham John Appleby of Kelloe, County Durham, ENG whose descendants migrated to California and Pennsylvania, USAJohn Appleby, exciseman of Corbridge, Northumberland, ENG, whose descendants migrated to Pennsylvania, USARobert Appleby of Eryholme, with descendants inThornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, ENGHenry Appleby of Barningham, whose descendants migrated from the Tees Valley in county Durham to Tyneside in Northumberland, ENGGeorge Walton Appleby, Captain of 31st Durham Regiment, born Durham, ENG - with descendants in British Columbia, Iowa and Bermuda (Note: this line may be a branch of that for Robert Appleby of Barnard Castle - see above)

[Note: the charts will open in your Adobe browser - some will need to be enlarged to over 100% to be legible, and then you will need to scroll across and down to view all details]

If you believe you are also descended from any of the above families - do please get in touch and share details of the more recent generations (though we will not publish any details of living generations on this site.

With your help, I hope to add further family trees and resource data for this part of England to the website - please use the Contact Form to let me know if you would be prepared to contribute details of your own family trees and Birth, Marriage and Death data for inclusion on the site.

When I receive each tree (GEDCOM format is most straightforward, though I am happy to receive details as Descendancy reports or even hand drawn trees), I always go through them locating as many individuals as possible on the 1841-1911 censuses, as I am also producing spreadsheets showing Northern Applebys in all census years (in the same format as those already available to site members for London Applebys). I also check for Parish Records on the excellent Durham Records Online website as I am trying to build up BMD spreadsheets for Northern Applebys too, but if you have parish record data to contribute, that would also be very helpful!

DNA

So far, the only set of yDNA results for any of the Appleby Lines from the northern counties of England is from one descendant of William Appleby of Framwellgate. If you are a male Appleby and would like to volunteer to take a DNA test as part of this project, please use the contact form to discuss this.

Surnames covered in our DNA project:

APPLEBYAPPLEBEEAPPELBYAPPELBEAPPELBEEAPELBY

plus any other variants

the Appleby DNA project

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Appleby Research Organisation

the website for the Appleby One-Name Study

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