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Title: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: MIS on Saturday 25 October 08 11:40 BST (UK)
I'm not researching my own family tree (my mother has beaten me to that one!) but I moved to Gateshead and started to look at the history of my house and found names of people who lived here over the last couple of hundred years.  Through that I got in touch with a man in New Zealand who was searching for his ancestors - one of whom used to live in my house about 150 years ago!

So now, I'm helping him out with the Gateshead side of his family.

As I'm here, I'm happy to help anyone else with Gateshead relatives, particularly if they lived near Gateshead Fell (Sheriff Hill, Sodhouse Bank, Old Durham Road, Church Road, Durham Road etc). I can wander around and photograph things if anyone has addresses or headstones that they want to see.


Similarly, if anyone knows of any Oliver's in the Gateshead area I'd be thrilled to hear from you!
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: swallowtail on Sunday 26 October 08 16:33 GMT (UK)
:) Hi MIS

I have Olivers living in the area at that time they were of course miners:

William born in in 1796 married a Elizabeth Pattison in 1823 in Gateshead area
they are on the 1841 census as living in Blue Quarries they had 6 children
Frederick, Esther, Mary, George, Sarah and James my great grandfather so I do not know if this has any connection with your contact.

Swallowtail  :)
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: MIS on Monday 27 October 08 00:08 GMT (UK)
they are my olivers! well, not mine, but william oliver's son, robert, lived in my house! i can send you what i have. do you mind sending me anything else that you have. I'll pass it on to my friend in new zealand who is williams gggg ( i think!) grandson.

william had a son called robert, robert had a son who he also called william and that william emigrated to new zealand in september 1877.

I have :
william oliver, b 1850
married elizabeth pattison m. 21.12.1823
children: robert (and others) b. 8.10. 1824
robert married mary hall ( b. 1825) 26.7.1846.
they had children : mary oliver 1847, william oliver, b 29.01.1850, emigrated 21.3.1928 m. hannah bailey (b. 27.8.1873), d. 21.3. 1928
edward oliver, b. 1851

robert remarried, dorothy cook (b. 10.7.1834, d. 1911) and they had more children: ann cook oliver (b. 01.01.1881. ann committed suicide 3.8.1894), elizabeth b 1861, margaret sarah b. 1863, robert george b. 1868, susanna jane b 1872 and alfred joseph b. 1874.

I have a few more names if you'd like them.

I'm very excited - I must know one of your long lost relatives! i have photographs of robert's house if you'd like them?

cheers,
paula
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: swallowtail on Monday 27 October 08 14:58 GMT (UK)
;D Hi Paula, well I am certainly related to the same William Oliver this is also exciting news for me as I have never yet come across any more connections to the Olivers I have William and Elizabeth's marriage entry and his father and mother in 1780 and of course census returns. my line goes from William and Elizabeth from their son George born in 1827 who married a Mary Ann Brown in 1855 then their son James born 1860 who married Mary Wilson and then to my grandfather Frederick born in 1888 who married Jemima Richmond Pringle in 1917 to my mother Irene Mary born in 1918.

So this is my one of my Maternal side's and I still go to Durham as I have one aunt and two cousins living in the North, I myself live in Surrey.

I am more than happy to pass my line onto you, but will need a little time to get it together, are you prepared for me to email you directly? and yes I would appreciate any photos of the area or of the ancestors if you friend has any.

Best wishes Lyn (Swallowtail)
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Tuesday 09 December 08 14:53 GMT (UK)
Hi MIS,
You may be just the person I'm looking for!

I was born (1936) and raised on Windy Nook Road, right next to the Travelers' Rest (the cottage is pulled down now). My wife was born on Cannon Row, just north of the Old Cannon, and we were married at St John's.

After working all over the world, we have now retired in Texas, just on the west side of Houston, so It is difficult getting info of 'home.' I have a photo of my Great Grandparents gravestone in St John's; Joseph Foster Wales. It is lying on the ground right by the south-east corner of the church.

I'm struggling to find his father FORSTER WAILES (different spelling), but he at one time owned the original Three Tuns; not the one you see now. If you can find ANY information on FORSTER, or the family, I'd be greatful.

My grandmother was born on Sodhouse Bank, # 122, just up from the Three Tuns, (it's now a glaziers), but I have a photo of that.

Regards,   Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Tuesday 09 December 08 16:28 GMT (UK)
Hi MIS,

You must tell me where you live, (maybe just the street), I'm so curious.

But here's a one for you, my great great grandfather FORSTER WAILES - or FOSTER WALES, or any combination, died Jun 1879 in Sheriff Hill. Can you find where he was buried?

Regards,       Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: MIS on Tuesday 09 December 08 20:19 GMT (UK)
Hi!
I know that area very well - I live on what used to be Sodhouse Bank and am a regular at the Three Tuns! I walked past Windy Nook Road on my way home from work tonight and saw where your house must have been. I know the glazier's shop too. It's a little further down the hill.

A while ago I had to write a history of the Tuns for the present landlord and I have this one mention of Forster:

"... his crown passed to Forster Wales (sp?) in around 1856. Forster was to run the Three Tuns for over 30 years until his death, when his wife Isabella became the first lady to run the pub". I found his name by searching archives in Gateshead library.

I'd hazard a guess that Forster is probably buried at St.Johns - there were no other churchyards around in this area at the time he would have died. I'll certainly have a look. The name does sound very familar!

Do you have any other names or dates and I'll see what I can dig up for you?

Welcome back to Gateshead - it's a small world these days, but much colder here than in Houston I'd imagine!

Paula.
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Tuesday 09 December 08 22:03 GMT (UK)
Paula, that is good information.

On the 1871 census, he is clearly FORSTER WALES, and wife ISABELLA, but on the 1881 census the pub owner is "JABBA" WALES, so I've wondered if it is the same person (didn't even know if Jabba was male or female). Now on his death certificate 1879; he died in Sheriff Hill so is probably buried in St John's, but I know that graveyard like the back of my hand and there is no marker for him. Could you ask the Verger if they have plot records of where bodies were placed? Norman Harrison has been a 'fixture' at the church for 60 years and he may know.

And another one for you, at St Alban's, down Windy Nook Road, I took a photo of a tombstone in the north-west corner, some years back, thinking I could read it later but I can't - It's of Mary and ?William HALL. Could you copy that data some sunny day?

We left Sheriff Hill in 1964, but I have clear memories of it all.

Regards,      Rob HALL, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: MIS on Tuesday 09 December 08 23:39 GMT (UK)
Rob,
Unfortunately I have already spoken to the vicar at St. John's church - he said that any burial records before the 1960's were sent to Durham Record Office. He was also 'embarrassed to admit' that they don't have any plans at all so couldn't, given a name, tell you where in the churchyard that person was buried

You could email Durham Record Office : record.office@durham.gov.uk

Another option, but less likely is Gateshead East Cemetery, which was opened in the 1860's ... you'll probably remember it. It's on your right as you go into the town centre. The records there are held by Gateshead Registry office and they are incredibly helpful if you email them with a name, date of death (or burial), address and the name of the cemetery. When I asked them, they looked through their records straight away and emailed me back the next morning. You can contact them at :cemeteriesandcrematoria@gateshead.gov.uk

Please let me know if you manage to uncover anything and in the meantime I'll have a wander to St Albans this weekend and try and find the tombstone. Transcripts are held in Newcastle, but they're not posted online so it's easier to go down to the church and have a look!

Good luck!
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Friday 12 December 08 14:19 GMT (UK)
Paula, I'll try and attach the photo at St Alban's, Windy Nook. I don't know if this is a relation; I'm just trying to piece families together. My grandfathe Robert Hall, accouding to two census' was from Heworth, and Felling respectively.

Incidentally, my father is still living, in Wrekenton, almost 95, but knows little of his  father.

If the attachment doesn't work, forgive me.

Regards,     Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: HM_Dava on Friday 12 December 08 19:11 GMT (UK)
Rob,

The burial record for Foster Wales is on Durham Records Online.

He was buried 29 June 1879 at St John's, Sheriff Hill aged 55.

Regards

HM_Dava
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Friday 12 December 08 19:30 GMT (UK)
Thanks a million HM_Dava. I guessed as much. I know his death certificate shows his death as 1879 June 25.

I have a search going at Tyne & Wear Archives for his birth, but haven't heard anything in 3 weeks. (I know he was born in Newburn). I try to use Durham Register but find most of the info I'm looking for, (even when I know the answer), isn't on the computer yet, i.e. my wedding.

Foster Wales' death was reported by his son-in-law M. McNaughty, but can't ffind that name anywhere (to see who his wife was).

Regards,  Rob Hall,  Katy, TEXAS - we had some snowflakes this week!
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: gereon on Saturday 13 December 08 01:30 GMT (UK)
Hi Paula,I wonder if you are able to help with this Low Fell enquiry.
A John McAllum of Gateshead was married at Bethseda Chapel Melborne St, on the 12th October 1864 to Lucy Ann Forster,daughter of Mr John Forster of Gateshead Low Fell.
Free BMD has Lucy Ann McAllums death at Gateshead,September Quarter 1865.
My query is is there any info on who John McAllum was and is the death of Lucy Ann McAllum his wife or child.
Most of the McAllums in Newcastle belong to the one family and I was rather hoping that this particular John McAllum may have been the son of John Donkin McAllum (one of my brickwalls) ,born 3rd July 1815,parents Duncan McAllum (surgeon of Blackett St) and Eliza Donkin.Any help greatly appreciated.gereon :)
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: MIS on Sunday 11 January 09 11:46 GMT (UK)
Hi Rob,
I finally got to the church to look at the gravestone. It was really easy to read.

In Loving Memory of
Mary Ann
The Beloved Wife of
John Hall
Who died January 18th 1918
Aged 67 years
Also the above
John Hall
who died April 12th 1921
Aged 71 years
Also Edward Hall
Son of the above
Who died May 19th 1940
Aged 64 years

Gone but not forgotten

I hope that helps!

Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: MIS on Sunday 11 January 09 11:54 GMT (UK)
Fay,
I don't know if you still check this site, but I haven't forgotten about you! Do you have any other names or dates that I can use?

Jacqueline,
Do you know if you have any Robsons in Windy Nook? I found a gravestone this morning : Thomas Robson, d march 2nd 1890 age 72, maria his wife, d jan 20 1893 aged 74 and a few other members of the same family; Robert, Elizabeth Anne, Roger and Jane. I have a photo and full details if you think it might be helpful?

And gereon, I've only had time to have a quick look for you but I'll keep at it!


I work full time but the Tyne and Wear Archive service is open on a Saturday at the beginning of February. I'm happy to go down and stay there until they throw me out if anyone wants to give me further names and dates etc so I know what I'm looking for!

Cheers
Paula.
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: gereon on Sunday 11 January 09 22:24 GMT (UK)
Hi Paula,many thanks for your continued interest.Cheers.gereon ;)
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Sunday 11 January 09 23:39 GMT (UK)
Thanks Paula, following your info, I went to the 1881 census, looked up the John Hall family (Windy Nook), but alas, it wasn't my family.

Regards,   Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Thursday 15 January 09 06:50 GMT (UK)
Hi All

There is another Mary Hall  + Family Gravestone at St Albans, its starting to decay. I do have a photograph of it.
Some of the dates are unreadable from the photo but I will go and check to see If I can make them out.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Denise Stell on Wednesday 11 February 09 14:12 GMT (UK)
I do hope you are still available to do check ups.  I have been researching my family for quite some years but I have come to a complete brick wall with my 5xG Grandparents.  I have their death certificates and according to the one, James Stell died in Whickham in 1802 at the age of 78, he was also born in Whickham, this makes the birth  year 1724.
His wife was Jane Charlton, she died in Whickham in 1800 at the age of 65, making her birth year 1735 .
She was also born in Whickham.
Is Whickham near to Gateshead Fell?
Their church where they married and had their burial was St. Mary the Virgin, Whickham.
Religion:  Anglican.

I do hope you will be able to help me, I live in Holland so it makes it difficult for me to actually research in the area.
Thanking you and I do hope to hear from you,
Best Wishes, Denise
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 11 February 09 14:27 GMT (UK)
Hi Denise

Welcome to RootsChat. Whickham is about 4 miles from Gateshead Fell. What information would you like.


Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Denise Stell on Wednesday 11 February 09 15:46 GMT (UK)
Hello Gary,
Thank you very much for answering my message so quickly, it was a real surprise!

I am trying to find out the actual birth or baptism dates for these ancestors plus the names of their parents.
James Stell and Jane Charlton married on the 1st April, 1760, confirmed via Durham Records Online, this is also
where I found their Death Records.  They went on to have 6 children.


I have also tried on the Bishops Transcripts for Durham but the records for Whickham don´t go back that far.

Is it possible that there are still gravestones for the Stell Family at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Whickham
do you think,

Best wishes, Denise (Stell)
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 11 February 09 16:04 GMT (UK)
Hi Denise

I assumed that if you got them back to 1724 that you had checked as much as you could on line. The parish records are held at Durham County Hall. It is possible that the Gravestones are still there but as to what condition they are would be guess work. I checked out the churchyard on google earth and there appears to be quite a few older stones around the main body of the church. I know where the church is but I have never been in the churchyard. As I don't live to far away I can call in and try and find any stones with Stell on them.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Wednesday 11 February 09 16:25 GMT (UK)
To Preshous and Denise.

I do know the area well, born in Gateshead Fell, and have visited the church in Whickham a couple of times. So I would like help, and offer a possible aide.

1. I would be interested in the 'other' Mary Hall in St Alban's Windy Nook (I was born on Windy Nook Road), and I have a relative who attends the church in Whickham.

2. The headstones at the church in Whickham are TERRIBLY eroded, so it may be difficult to read them. Actually, if I remember correctly some have worn completely thru. But my contact is T. W. Graham who lives in Whickam, and is a member of the church

Regards,    Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 11 February 09 16:47 GMT (UK)
Hi Rob

I will dig out the photo of Mary Hall's Gravestone for you. St Mary's is on my list to photograph so when I go I will photograph all available stones. I can quite imagine there will be some bad ones among them.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Wednesday 11 February 09 16:55 GMT (UK)
Preshous; you said 'St Mary's.' Did you mean St Alban's, Windy Nook? I have an Aunt in Sheriff Hill, but she is too old (89) to do any of this for me.

Regards,   Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 11 February 09 17:00 GMT (UK)
Rob I have photos of all the Gravestones at St Albans ( windy Nook) Its just round the corner, Im on sheriffs highway just down from the Queens Head. I have not as yet got any photos of St Marys ( Whickham ) as yet.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Denise Stell on Wednesday 11 February 09 17:19 GMT (UK)
Hello Gary and Rob,

Many thanks for your replies.  Yes, I have tried everything I can think of to find the records going back to the birth years but perhaps I could try the Durham County Hall although they won't have published anything online otherwise I would have come across them - that is the problem with living here, I can't just go and check through records, sometimes very frustrating!  In my family tree the Stell family were settled in Whickham for several generations.   Anyway, its great to have a new address to try, thank you.

As for the headstones, it was a "shot in the dark" I know as I can imagine, over the years there wouldn't be much left of inscriptions.  Still Rob, I would appreciate it if you could ask your contact, Mr. Graham,  for any information for me.

Best wishes to you both,
Denise

Regards to both of you,
Denise
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 11 February 09 17:27 GMT (UK)
Hi Denise

Have you come across the Stells from Washington? Its not that far from Whickham. They go way back to early 1600's.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Wednesday 11 February 09 17:38 GMT (UK)
Preshous; I was acually born right next to the Traveller's Rest at 'the top of the bank,' and my wife was born just north of the Cannon, so we know the area, and the Queens Head very well. Left UK in 1964.

My Dad, (95) lives at Wrekenton.

Regards,  Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: patrexjax on Wednesday 11 February 09 17:46 GMT (UK)
Hello all, I have a set of fiche of the Whickham MIs which was transcribed by members of the N&DFHS in 1994, I believe.  According to the index there were no Stell family members buried there....I also have a fiche for the burials at Ryton...if this would be helpful, please give me specifics on look ups as there is actually no good index with this, altho it does cover from early 1700's to 1812.  Pat
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 11 February 09 17:48 GMT (UK)
Hi Rob

I think the house I live in now was just being built in 1964. I am not a native of gateshead but I do know the area very well. If there is anything I can help you with feel free to ask. I will sort the Hall gravestone after tea :)

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 11 February 09 17:57 GMT (UK)
Hi Pat

St Mary's, Whickham, was all but destroyed by fire in 1841 so it is quite possible that some stones were lost either as a result of the fire or the rebuilding of the present day church. That could explain the stones not being there to transcribe.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Denise Stell on Wednesday 11 February 09 18:46 GMT (UK)
Hello Gary and Patrexjax,

I have always had this feeling that perhaps they did come from Washington, I actually researched this family of Stell's and did,  as you say, get back pretty far back into the 1600's.  If they aren't mentioned on the fiches it seems that I will have to try neighbouring areas.
The thing that put me off was the Death Record from DRO.

For both James Stell and wife Jane Charlton:-

Burials - Gateshead District
Location:  Whickham
Church:  St. Mary
Religion:  Anglican
James of Lowhand, died 5th of July 1802 aged 78.  Buried 7th July, 1802
Jane of Lowhand, died 3rd of January aged 65.   Buried 7th of January 1800

Is Ryton in the area?  I have printed maps but it isn't the same as being there.

I appreciate all your help,
Denise
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 11 February 09 19:09 GMT (UK)
Hi Denise

The reason i thought of the Stell's from Washington was because the nearest marriage date that I could find that would produce your James, was a Thomas Stell & Margaret Hutchinson married in 1695 in Washinton, via george bells transcripts. Ryton is, again, not far from Whickham. Just to  muddy the waters even further there is a Cuthbert Stell in hexham in 1632. Hexham is not a million miles from whickham. I will keep looking.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: patrexjax on Wednesday 11 February 09 19:12 GMT (UK)
Hello Denise.....In answer to your question.....yes, Ryton parish is quite close to Whickham parish (bordering) and some of my folks bounced back and forth between those two parishes to have baptisms, weddings and burials.  I have always checked both parishes to see what they did for any given sacrament.  :o  I noticed that the IGI does show some Stell family being baptized in Whickham and there are also a large number in Gateshead - also close...If you have any specific look ups on baptisms before 1800 i Whickham or Ryton, let me know. In many cases, the specific area (NOT street!) that the family was living in at the time of the sacrament was recorded. This can help sort out family groups sometimes.  Pat
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 11 February 09 19:31 GMT (UK)
Denise

I found this on Lowhand. LOWSIDE, or Lowhand, a township, in the parish of Whickham, union of Gateshead, W. division of Chester ward, N. division of the county of Durham,

From: 'Lowick - Lucton', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 182-186. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51122  Date accessed: 11 February 2009.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Denise Stell on Wednesday 11 February 09 19:57 GMT (UK)
Gary and Patrexjax,

I have just been looking for all the notes I made of the Stell family of Washington - thank goodness I never throw anything away!
I have also got a Thomas Stell b. Washington married to Margaret Hutchinson b. Whickham to Gabriel Hutchinson and Margaret Row.. Married 25.04.1695 M000971, they had 6 children all born in Washington, P000971.
Thomas was b. 27.01.1667 in Washington to Thomas Stell and Elizabeth Coxon, Thomas had 5 siblings.
In Gateshead there was a John Stell who married Jane Johnson they also had 6 children.
I went back further with these families but couldn´t find a James anywhere!

This is why I went back to Whickham......James lived to a grand old age old age but his birth is a mystery.
Even on Durham Records Online there  isn´t anything about his birth-baptism.

By the way, with my notes I hadn´t anything on Stell´s of Ryton I think I had better try there.

Denise
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Thursday 12 February 09 12:50 GMT (UK)
Rob

This is the inscription (as best as I can transcribe it) for the Mary Hall @ St Albans

In Rememberance Of
Mary Hall
Beloved Wife Of
James Hall
Who Departed This Life
Febry 18? 1861? Aged 55? Years
Also Their Daughter Mary
Who Died July 1st 1874
Aged 21? Years
Also Their Son John
Who Died April 6th? 1892
Aged 66?

Where ever there is a ? after the date means it is my best guess.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Thursday 12 February 09 14:15 GMT (UK)
Hi Denise

I'm not sure if you came across this marriage.
William Stell & Eleanor Harrison at Durham Cathedral on the 14 July 1722.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Denise Stell on Thursday 12 February 09 15:46 GMT (UK)
Hi Gary,

No, I hadn't seen this marriage at all.  Where did you find it?

These could possibly be the  parents of James, it is the correct
time frame in any case.  Please could you let me know where
you found them?

Refards, Denise

Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Thursday 12 February 09 16:04 GMT (UK)
Hi Denise

Its on the IGI, but I found it via george bell's transcripts http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/Transcriptions/DUR/DCA.html
Hopefully the link should take you to the page.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Denise Stell on Thursday 12 February 09 16:17 GMT (UK)
Thanks Gary,

The link got me straight onto the page. 

I see you have Murray of Cumberland.

You don't by any chance have a Mary Murray that moved down to
Chorley, Lancashire.  Mary married John McHugh/McQue in 1870 in Chorley.
Her father was named Patrick Murray, he was deceased at the time of
the marriage but his profession was given as Agrigultural Labourer.
 I have the Marriage Certificate.

Denise
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Thursday 12 February 09 16:25 GMT (UK)
Hi Denise

I'm stiil trying to track down my Murray ancestors. My GGG Grandfather came to Durham from Cumberland around 1839. Cumberland is a Murray hotspot so things take forever to find out.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Denise Stell on Friday 13 February 09 09:14 GMT (UK)
Good morning!

Shame about the Murray Family Gary, thought I had better ask, you never know!

All of a sudden, I have found a Jane Charlton on IGI ch. 07.12.1735, Saint Nicholas, Durham.
She has 5 siblings and her parents are John Charlton and JANE.

James Stell and Jane Charlton had two sons, one Thomas and the other John.

I have also found a James Stell born in Keighley, Yorkshire. The birth year is 1818, too
early, he has father John.

I think I will stick with Thomas Stell who married Margaret Hutchinson as his parents although
there is no mention of birth/christening of a James Stell.
Have you any ideas about this?

Best wishes, Denise
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Friday 13 February 09 09:26 GMT (UK)
Hi Denise

There is a James Stell born in Scotland c 1728 with a father as James. It might be worth checking out. It took me 2 years of searching close to home for one branch of my family only for me to find out they came down from scotland.
The joiner marriage index has a transcription of James & Janes marriage but what you might glean from that is pot luck it costs £2.50 to get the transcription.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: lesleychivers on Tuesday 10 March 09 03:06 GMT (UK)
Hi,
Just found this link and suspect I could keep you rather busy as I have a lot of relatives in the area.
My first is Thomas and Catherine Miller address at Blue Quarries, GAteshead in the 1851 census. They both died in 1854 at Gateshead Fell, leaving a family of five to fend for themselves. The eldest Bartholemew was just 14. the youngest three years old.Thomas was a Mason.
DO you recognise the names and is the area still standing.
thanks
Lesley
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Tuesday 10 March 09 07:12 GMT (UK)
Hi Lesley

The Blue Quarries area of Sheriffs Hill was demolished from 1920 to 1940. You can see some old photographs of the streets and houses at this link http://www.rootschat.com/links/05sn/  . There are a few Millers buried at St Johns church, but as yet no Thomas & Catherine c 1854, I still have about 50% of the gravestones to transcribe.
If you know where any of your Millers are buried let me know and I will check my database.

I live a stones throw from Blue Quarries.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: fayl on Tuesday 10 March 09 09:17 GMT (UK)
Hi Paula

Sorry for not getting back to you but I have only just read your post dated Sunday 11th January - don't know what happened, why I missed it.

What can I tell you regarding names and dates then?

My GGG Grandparents Bridget and Patrick Mellon(Mellan) are living with their family at Bottle Houses, Bill Quay in 1881.  Then in 1891 and 1901 at Prospect Terrace.

I do not know Gateshead Fell, or Newcastle to be honest as I live in Birmingham, but from looking at photographs on Gateshead Council web site I believe where they lived was a "very poor" area.

My Grandfather was born in Brewery Lane in 1899.

I would guess that the area where my ancestors lived no longer exists.

Most of the marriages of my ancestors took place at St Patricks Chapel.

Patrick passed away in 1904 - I do not know where he is buried - would St Patricks be a possibility?

Regards

Fay
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Post by: rhall36 on Tuesday 10 March 09 12:54 GMT (UK)
To Preshaus. Thanks for the offer of the gravestone photos - how do you send them? And whilst most of the Hall's in St John's won't be mine (ie there is a 'new' one Henry HALL near the south wall - not mine), all of the WALES headstones are my relatives.
Matthew WALES lived on Egremont Gardens, just off Sodhouse bank. And the Joseph Foster WALES stone right be the East entrance to the church, is not the original. The original was a high one and broke across the middle, so some of the data would be eliminated.

Regards,  Rob Hall,  Katy,  TEXAS
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Post by: Preshous on Tuesday 10 March 09 13:13 GMT (UK)
Hi Rob

I have Matthew Patterson Wales d 1966 and Joseph Foster Wales d 1933. There may be others as I still have 250 or so stones still to transcribe. If you would like the photographs just let me know I will PM you email address. The files are about 2mb each in order to keep as much detail as possible.

Gary
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Post by: rhall36 on Tuesday 10 March 09 13:39 GMT (UK)
To Preshaus, please send gravestone photos
Thanks, Rob, Texas
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Post by: Preshous on Tuesday 10 March 09 13:53 GMT (UK)
Hi Rob

I got your email address. But I suggest you remove it from the post. If you dont know how a mod will do very quickly. use the modify button and edit your post

Gary
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Post by: Preshous on Tuesday 10 March 09 14:10 GMT (UK)
Hi Rob

First photograph should be on its way to you.

Gary
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Post by: lesleychivers on Friday 20 March 09 01:54 GMT (UK)
Hello again, thanks for the link to the picture.
Can you see if you have anything on a couple of other Millers - Ralph Miller buried Oct 21st 1862 and James Miller aged 3 in 1862 also.
Also a Gilbert Miller died 4th qtr 1863.

Many thanks
Lesley
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Post by: Colin Cruddace on Friday 20 March 09 23:17 GMT (UK)
Hello,
 
My Gt Grandad was a clerk for the NER and moved to Low Fell from Darlington about 1884. He seemed to move about a lot with his job but always came back to Low Fell so I'm thinking he probably owned his own house at some point. In 1885 the address was Wesley Street, and between 1896 - 1899 they were at 13 Albert Drive. For the 1901 census they were at East Boldon, but in 1902 lived at 3 Tynevale Terrace, Gateshead, where he died of TB.

Does anyone know what these addresses were like in those days?

Regards,
Colin
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Post by: Preshous on Saturday 21 March 09 06:23 GMT (UK)
Hi Colin

Here is a link for Albert Drive, there are 3 photographs that I can find. http://www.rootschat.com/links/05vi/

Gary
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Post by: Preshous on Saturday 21 March 09 07:31 GMT (UK)
Quote from: lesleychivers on Friday 20 March 09 01:54 GMT (UK)
Can you see if you have anything on a couple of other Millers - Ralph Miller buried Oct 21st 1862 and James Miller aged 3 in 1862 also.
Also a Gilbert Miller died 4th qtr 1863.

Hi Lesley I have checked trough my database and unfortunately there are no stones for your Miller's. Here is a list of what I do have just in case you recognize any of them.

1 Agnes Home Miller died 1948 aged 66.
2 John Miller  died 1885 aged 60 + Jane Miller died 1892 aged 61
3 Benjamin Miller died 1932 adged 60 + Cecilia Miller died 1949 aged 73
4 Eleanor Miller died 1916 aged 72 + John Kirsopp Miller died 1918 aged 76
5 Sarah Jane Miller died 1931 aged 51 + Joseph Arnell Miller 1969 aged 90
6 William Miller died 1968 aged 69 + David Miller died 1977 aged 37 + Victor Miller died 2002 aged 62
7 Isabella Margaret Ann Miller died 1891 aged 28 + Mossman Miller died 1910 aged 51

Gary
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Post by: Colin Cruddace on Saturday 21 March 09 14:51 GMT (UK)
Hi Gary,

Thanks very much for the link. I managed to find 8 images which included a beautiful picture of the new park and the houses in 1906. There was also one for a house 2 doors away from where they lived. On google maps, it looks as though the houses are still there so a trip is not far away.

Many thanks,
Colin
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Post by: Preshous on Saturday 21 March 09 16:26 GMT (UK)
Hi Colin

I live in Low Fell. Albert Drive is indeed still alive and kicking and every bit as grand as it looks on the photos. Wesley street is not to far away. As for Tynevale Terrace that is in Bensham which borders Low Fell.

Gary
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Post by: Colin Cruddace on Saturday 21 March 09 19:52 GMT (UK)
Hi Gary,

Google maps is very good for finding places but it's not always possible to see if they have been redeveloped. I live in Darlington so there's no problem in checking them out, especially as the weather is getting better. It's much better than sitting in front of a screen.

Regards,
Colin
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Post by: Preshous on Saturday 21 March 09 20:52 GMT (UK)
Hi Colin

We might pass each other. My late Mother and Grandmother where born in Darlington. My Great Grandfather is buried in Darlington North Cemetery and I mean to get down and see if he has a headstone.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Colin Cruddace on Saturday 21 March 09 21:39 GMT (UK)
I'm just a couple of hundred yards from there. If you let me know his name and the year I can check it out. ;D

Colin
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Post by: Preshous on Sunday 22 March 09 07:08 GMT (UK)
Hi Colin

Thank you for the offer. If you can possibly  find a gravestone for William Samuel Jackson died 1934. I have the burial rights document which states he is buried in grave space 11 section A letter XX if that is of any use.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Colin Cruddace on Sunday 22 March 09 12:44 GMT (UK)
Hi Gary,

Thanks for the plot details, they should make him easier to find.

Colin
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Post by: Preshous on Sunday 22 March 09 13:13 GMT (UK)
Thanks Colin  ;D
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Post by: Colin Cruddace on Monday 23 March 09 15:49 GMT (UK)
Hello Gary.

I've been to the cemetery but unfortunately there is no headstone. I checked with Parks and Cemeteries to confirm the plot details and they also confirmed that there was no mention of a headstone for him when safety checks were undertaken.

Sorry,
Colin
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Post by: Preshous on Monday 23 March 09 16:03 GMT (UK)
Hi Colin

Thanks for looking. I really appreciate it. If I can repay the compliment just ask.

Regards

Gary
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Post by: KJP on Tuesday 24 March 09 20:54 GMT (UK)
Hello, my Great Grandfather and Mother and family lived at 7 Church Road Sheriff Hill from approx. 1914 to 1920/22, they were called Mangan and came to England from Kildare Ireland in the early 1900's, they and some of the family are buried in St Oswalds RC Church Cemetery Wrekenton, I intend to visit to see if their graves can be identified, does anyone have any photos of the area of 7 Church Road from that time as I think that part is not there anymore, I have tried the isee Gateshead site without success, or does anyone know of the family.
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Post by: HM_Dava on Tuesday 24 March 09 21:29 GMT (UK)
Hello KJP,

7, Church Road still exists and you can view it on Google Earth as if you were standing in the street. You can almost see through the front window.

Regards,

HM_Dava
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Post by: rhall36 on Tuesday 24 March 09 23:05 GMT (UK)
I'm originally from that area, and in the website "isee.gateshead.gov.uk" there is a phot of Church Road, looking East. I would guess the address must be on the right (North) side of the road. If the number from Sodhouse Bank, I knew the family of Billy Pharoh's live in the second or third cottage in 1942 - and they were old cottages then.

The 1895 Ordnance map shows three attached cottages, and then a 'detached' home. In 1895 there were no homes on the south side of Church Road (my father, born in 1914 remembers the homes being built on the right hand side - circa 1925), so your family must have lived in the cottages mentioned.

Regards,   Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
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Post by: KJP on Wednesday 25 March 09 22:26 GMT (UK)
Hello, I had a look on Google Map and the Address 7 Church Road is still there, there are two cottages no's 5 and 7 however I do not know if the two cottages look old enough to have been around 1914 - 1920's, there is a photo on isee Gateshead showing the same two cottages which looks to have been taken possibly 1930 ish as there is not a date on the photo but not sure if they could have been around earlier. Anyone any further info/photos.
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Post by: jeffery1_6 on Tuesday 31 March 09 15:34 BST (UK)
Hello,

I'm wondering if you could help me please?

A William Parkin (born Felling or Felling Shaw, c. 1826) married a Mary Brown (born Gateshead, c. 1828) at All Saints in Newcastle on 30th March 1851. On their marriage certificate, William's fathers details are given as John Parkin (deceased), occupation Waterman. Mary's father is William Brown, Viewer.

As William was born in Felling/Felling Shaw, I've been trying to find his father John but have been struggling.

I have found a John Parkin, aged 34 in the Gateshead Fell Lunatic Asylum in 1841. His occupation is given as 'P Mariner'. I'm presuming the P stands for Past as those in the Asylum who have any occupations against them are all preceded with the letter P? He was not born in County Durham.

I can't seem to find this John in the 1851 census and am wondering if this may be Williams father?

I'm wondering if you have come across any headstones for a John Parkin which may fit with this please?

Many thanks.  :)

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Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 01 April 09 06:55 BST (UK)
Hi Jeffery

I have found only one gravestone for Parkin and that is for a Eleanor died 1894 aged 54 and her husband Joseph who died 1907 aged 67. They are buried at Gateshead East cemetery. You say that John Parkin was shown as deceased on the 1851 marriage entry so he could not be buried in Gateshead East as that was not opened until 1862. I have checked my database for the surrounding church graveyards but no Parkins.  I assume that you came across the FreeBDM entry for a John Parkin who died in 1849 in Gateshead, could he be your's.

Gary
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Post by: jeffery1_6 on Wednesday 01 April 09 10:52 BST (UK)
Hi Gary,

Thanks for that...............yes, I found a death for a John Parkin in 1849 in Gateshead on FreeBMD and as I couldn't find him anywhere in the 1851 census (together with John Parkin being deceased by the time his son married), I thought he was perhaps the most likely candidate.

I was working on the assumption (correct or otherwise) that Mariner and Waterman could be interchangable.

Have you any idea where people from the asylum were buried at that time? Would they have been unmarked graves do you think?

If John died in the asylum, is his death certificate likely to provide any useful info with regards to his relatives/family or would it just be asylum details?  ???
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Post by: rhall36 on Wednesday 01 April 09 14:01 BST (UK)
A couple of bits of info which may, or may not be relevant. I remember a Mr & Mrs PARKIN lived on Glynwood Gardens circa 1950. I was young so don't know their first names.

I also remember the 'Sylum Square on Church Road before it was demolished. And on the 1895 Ordnance map of Sheriff Hill, it shows "Potter's Field' on Sodhouse Bank, just north of Blue Quarries Road. Could this be where the deceased inmates were buried? In fact, on one of the buildings on the west sde of Sodhouse Bank, there is an inscription Potter's Field 1822.

Regards, Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
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Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 01 April 09 19:18 BST (UK)
Hi Jeffery

There is a photograph & a brief history of the asylum at this link http://www.rootschat.com/links/05z3/
I am guessing as regard the burial place for the inmate's but St Johns would be the logical place.
I would imagine not many inmates received a burial with a headstone. As for the death certificate I would think a member of staff would have been the person to report the death.

Added: A waterman was apparently a ferryman.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 01 April 09 19:33 BST (UK)
KJP
A photograph of 7 Church Road taken 01/04/09.

Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Wednesday 01 April 09 22:28 BST (UK)
I understand from my father, who was born in 1914, he remembers these houses, (on the south side of the road) and Rosewood Gardens, being built circa 1920. As I said before, on the 1895 Ordnace map, the only 4 cottages on Church Road on the north side of the road. I remember these cottages from when I went to Sheriff Hill Primary School 1941 - 1945.

The asylum, after closing down, was used to house really poor people, and I remeber visiting relatives there, circa 1942. It was commonly called the'Sylum Square.'

Rob Hall,   Katy, TEXAS
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Post by: jeffery1_6 on Thursday 02 April 09 13:42 BST (UK)
Thanks Gary and Rob for your feedback..........much appreciated.  :)
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Post by: Jessiew on Saturday 04 April 09 17:03 BST (UK)
Hi, I wonder if you or anyone can help!  I'm researching the Waters family from Gateshead Fell in the late 1780's and into about 1840 in particular Joseph born about 1783 and his family - Alexander, William, Joseph, Mark, Mary, Jane, James, Margaret and Thomas all born between 1813 - 1835 with the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th children born in High Felling and baptized in High Felling Weslyan Methodist Chapel.  I feel sure that Joseph had brothers/sisters and one of them may have had a daughter Sarah Waters born about 1826 in High Felling. Any information about this family would be appreciated. Regards, Jess
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Post by: Preshous on Saturday 04 April 09 20:08 BST (UK)
Hi Jess

Welcome to RootsChat. I have a photograph of a gravestone for a Thomas Waters died 1917 aged 80 his wife Isabella Jane died 1920 aged 77 and thier eldest son Joseph died 1890 aged 29. The stone is broken and part of it is missing. The gravestone is in Gateshead East Cemetery.

Gary
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Post by: KJP on Sunday 05 April 09 18:46 BST (UK)
Thanks for the photo Preshous, do you mean no. 7 is the house or the cottage just in the picture on the left, according to google map the cottage to the left is No. 7 but not sure how accurate it is. I have now confirmed from the Gateshead electoral rolls that the Mangan Family were living at No. 7 Church Road at least until 1928, possibly longer as my Great Grandfather Christopher Mangan died 1931 and his Wife Mary 1930 and by that time all of their children had married and were living elsewhere.
On another matter has anyone heard of Mill Cottage Sheriff Hill as my Great Aunt Agnes Kelly, Nee Mangan, was living there with my Great Uncle Aaron Kelly and their family early 1920's, have a number of Baptism records for their children from St Oswalds RC Church Wrekenton from the early 1920's which all show Mill Cottage as their parents Agnes and Aaron's home.

K
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Post by: Preshous on Sunday 05 April 09 19:27 BST (UK)
Hi KJP

The house with the for sale sign is number 7 Church Road. Looking at OS maps the house's that you see today do not appear until after 1930 indeed old maps show that they were the first buildings to occupy the site since 1865.
I can only assume that the previous number 7 Church Road was elswhere on church road and was demolished prior to the new number 7 being built.

Gary
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Post by: Jessiew on Monday 06 April 09 13:03 BST (UK)
Hi Gary

Thank you so much for your reply.  Unfortunatley I don't think this is one of my Waters family.  The only Thomas I can find married to Isabella was born in Cumberland.

I think that my Joseph left Gateshead Fell probably around the time of the 1810 miners strike but returned with his bride and brought up his family there but left again possibly at the time of the 1831 strike.  By the 1841 census they were living in Dewley. 

The rest of Joseph's family [I assume he had brothers and sisters] possibly stayed around the 'Fell' area but I can only find a Thomas Waters in Wrekenton born about the same time as Joseph.  James Waters and Margaret Spence may have been his parents but I have no solid evidence of this.

It's like looking for a needle in a haystack...I had no idea there were so many 'Waters' around!

Best regards
Jess


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Post by: mickm on Monday 13 April 09 22:09 BST (UK)
Hello MIS, I've been doing some research for a relative whose ancestors came to Sydney from Durham in the 1880s. He was John Brown and worked at the Sheriff Hill Pottery Factory. He married Jane Best 1866 in Gateshead. I've found them in 1871 (Sheriff hill west side schedule 6) and 1881 census returns, but with so many of those names around, confirming their parents has been diffiicult. I was hoping you may get a chance to check the marriage register and see if their parents are listed (and anything else useful). 
Marriage is John BROWN and Jane BEST; at Gateshead in December quarter 1866. Registered Vol 10a, page 894.
Really appreciate any assist.
Regards, MickM
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Post by: rhall36 on Friday 26 June 09 23:32 BST (UK)
To Jeffery and Gary in particular. While I had previeously suggested that the inmates of the Sheriff hill Asylum would be buied ont the site oh Hodkin Park; because of the wall marker Potters ? on Sodhouse Bank. But I was looking at St Jhon's burial records, and came across a George HALL, (hopefully not my relation).

He died at the Sheriff Hill Asylum in 1858 Oct, aged 39, and was buried at St John's. So maybe the inmates were burried at St John's

Regards, Rob HALL, Katy, TEXAS
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Post by: Preshous on Sunday 28 June 09 20:13 BST (UK)
Hi Rob

As you know I have photographed all the available gravestones at St Johns and I can not see one for the George Hall you mention. I have a feeling that any one from the asylum buried in St Johns would have been done so in an unmarked grave.
Gary
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Post by: telephonist on Tuesday 30 June 09 10:32 BST (UK)
The addresses below are those of my great grandparents Robert and Elizabeth Mary Atkinson -she formerly McNally daughter of John and Margaret McNally of CHURCH WALK.
Elizabeth was born 28 June 1855 - Church Walk

1881 they lived at 34 Peareth Street, Gateshead,Durham England
1891 living at 19 Liddell Tce,Gateshead, Durham England RG12 /4176 F143 P32
1901 living at 9 Robert Place, Gateshead, Durham, England RG13/4752 F5 P1&2

Would these house be standing today?

Also would you have any Atkinson or McNallys among your cemetery photographs please?
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Post by: Preshous on Tuesday 30 June 09 20:51 BST (UK)
Hi Telephonist

Peareth Street long gone http://www.rootschat.com/links/06lo/

Liddell Terrace appears to be still there NE8 1YN
Robert Place also long gone.

I dont have any photographs of McNally gravestones, but I have quite a few Atkinsons.
If you have names and dates I will check them out.

Gary
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Post by: Budwise04 on Friday 03 July 09 19:23 BST (UK)
Quote from: Preshous on Saturday 21 March 09 07:31 GMT (UK)
Quote from: lesleychivers on Friday 20 March 09 01:54 GMT (UK)
Can you see if you have anything on a couple of other Millers - Ralph Miller buried Oct 21st 1862 and James Miller aged 3 in 1862 also.
Also a Gilbert Miller died 4th qtr 1863.

Hi Lesley I have checked trough my database and unfortunately there are no stones for your Miller's. Here is a list of what I do have just in case you recognize any of them.

1 Agnes Home Miller died 1948 aged 66.
2 John Miller  died 1885 aged 60 + Jane Miller died 1892 aged 61
3 Benjamin Miller died 1932 adged 60 + Cecilia Miller died 1949 aged 73
4 Eleanor Miller died 1916 aged 72 + John Kirsopp Miller died 1918 aged 76
5 Sarah Jane Miller died 1931 aged 51 + Joseph Arnell Miller 1969 aged 90
6 William Miller died 1968 aged 69 + David Miller died 1977 aged 37 + Victor Miller died 2002 aged 62
7 Isabella Margaret Ann Miller died 1891 aged 28 + Mossman Miller died 1910 aged 51

Gary

Hi,
I was playing on the internet when I found this post and just got sooooooo excited, Eleanor Miller (nee Arnell) was daughter of Joseph Arnell ( a weaver) who died in Wrekenton Assylum. Joseph was born c1759 and died in 1844 - he is as far back as I have managed to trace. Any and all information regarding Arnell's / Millers would be very greatfully received. The Arnell's were "big" methodists and Joseph's sons from his first marriage, Joseph and Thomas were stonemasons. I'm hoping to track down a few more ancestors !
Thanks,
Louise
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Post by: Preshous on Friday 03 July 09 20:23 BST (UK)
Hi Louise

Welcome to RootsChat.

I have no connection with Millers/Arnell. I photograph and transcribe gravestones as a hobby. I feel that the photo I have for Eleanor Miller is not the daughter of your Joseph, the sums don't add up. You say your Joseph died in 1844 and that would have made him 85 when the Eleanor I have was born. Her grandfather perhaps. I fear there will not be a gravestone for Your Joseph. You are more than welcome to any photos I have for Millers/Arnsell

Gary
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Post by: Budwise04 on Saturday 04 July 09 10:28 BST (UK)
Hi Gary, Thanks for your quick reply. You're right Eleanor is the granddaughter of Joseph (c1759) her father was also called Joseph (1806) and in my haste to reply I got them muddled ! Thus far I have drawn a blank regarding Joseph 1759, I have been in touch with the archives etc but all records regarding inmates no longer exist. I did get a copy of Joseph's death certificate though which is how I made the link to the asylum. I would be really grateful if I could have copies of any Arnell/ Miller headstones you have transcribed/photographed. Shall I send my email address - I'm not really sure of the best way to do it ?! Thanks again and look forward to hearing from you soon. Louise
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Post by: Preshous on Saturday 04 July 09 19:13 BST (UK)
Hi Louise

I have sent you a PM.

Gary
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Post by: Budwise04 on Saturday 04 July 09 19:24 BST (UK)
Thanks, I've sent a reply Louise :D
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Post by: rhall36 on Saturday 04 July 09 23:36 BST (UK)
Hi Gary. I'd like to ask for any photos of the gravestones in St John's, Sheriff Hill. On the occasional visits back to gateshead, I've always visited St John's and taken some photos. the two family names I'm interested in are WALES and HALL.

I have photos of Robert W. WALES d. 1946, Matthew WALES d. 1966 (and his wife and daughter), Joseph Foster WALES d. 1933 (and his wife). The only HALL photo is Henry HALL d. 1984, but no relation, but not my relation.

I have met every Rector of St John's since 1947, up until Rev Tully left, and even had our Rector from Texas go and give a service there.

My e-mail is (*)
Gratefully, Rob HALL, Katy,  TX

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Post by: His-Nibs on Thursday 10 September 09 21:49 BST (UK)
Hi I am looking for information on any Goodfellows or Davidsons buried in St Albans, Windy Nook.
In particular my G/ Grandparents Matthew Goodfellow b1867 & Frances Goodfellow b1871 
Also my G/Parents William Francis Davidson b1898 d1941? & Ann Catherine Davidson (nee Goodfellow) b 1903 d1939?.

 My mother seems to think that at one time there were gravestones for them in St Albans but they have been removed (possibly water / flooding damage)
Any information would be most helpful
Kind Regards
Ian
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Post by: Preshous on Friday 11 September 09 06:02 BST (UK)
Hi Ian

Welcome to RootsChat.
No joy with your Matthew & Frances Goodfellow at St Albans.
I have a photograph for John Goodfellow died 1878 aged 43 & his wife Ann Catherine died 1904 aged 71.
There are 3 stones for Davidson's at St Albans but none of them for your William & Ann.
There are a few unreadable stone at St Albans.
An index of all available stones can be found here http://www.rootschat.com/links/072c/

Gary
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Post by: His-Nibs on Friday 11 September 09 19:29 BST (UK)
Hi Gary

Thanks very much for your quick reply and the link to that excellent site. I have ordered some images to see if i can glean anything from them.

Did my mention of headstones possibly being removed mean anything to you (ie do you think that it was possible) and if so do you have any idea who I could contact to find out more. Apologies for all the questions but I really am a novice at this

ps I have converted the list of St albans headstones into an Excel  spreadsheet for easier reference - if a copy would be of any use to you please let me know
Kind Regards
Ian
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Post by: Preshous on Friday 11 September 09 19:47 BST (UK)
Hi Ian

The link I gave you  is just an easy way for people to check out what is available. It started out life as an excel document  it took sometime to compile ;D. I will email your images very soon.

Gary
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Post by: His-Nibs on Friday 11 September 09 20:05 BST (UK)
Hi again Gary
Sorry to be a pest

""Did my mention of headstones possibly being removed mean anything to you (ie do you think that it was possible) and if so do you have any idea who I could contact to find out more?""

Kind Regards
Ian
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Friday 11 September 09 20:17 BST (UK)
Hi Ian

I could see no evidence of gravestones being removed. The graveyard is quite small and there appears to be a good coverage of gravestones IE no obvious areas without gravestones. The graveyard is actually raised above the surrounding area and also slopes from south (high point) to north (low point). It could well be the gravestone may be laid face down  :'(. Your images should be en route to you.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: anthony pearson on Thursday 17 September 09 14:45 BST (UK)
hi can you help me out

i have been doing my family tree for some years now i have hit a big wall
i am looking for info on the pearson family they lived in whickham and moved to blaydon in 1881/91
in 1901 the family are in gateshead district 6
thomas pearson 25y
elizabeth pearson (mccarrick) 19y
alice pearson 6 m old
living at no 55

william pearason 64y father of thomas
rachel pearson (johnson) 62y
isabbella pearson 21y
living at no 57

we are looking for
elizabeth pearson born in 1866 in durham
hannah pearson bornin 1868 in durham
robert pearson born in 1870 durham
jane ann pearson born in 1877born in wickham
iasbella pearson born in 1880 born in wickham
there are no deaths for pearson family in wickham or dunston
there are 19 pearsons in blaydon grave yard
but only 6 head stones we can not fined the above names can you help me out
thanks

Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Thursday 17 September 09 19:25 BST (UK)
Quote from: anthony pearson on Thursday 17 September 09 14:45 BST (UK)

there are no deaths for pearson family in wickham or dunston


Both Whickham & Dunston are part of Gateshead. Possible death for Robert in 1898 aged 28 Dec  Gateshead  10a 534.
Also a possible death for Jane Ann 1892 aged 15 Mar  Gateshead  10a 570 .


Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: anthony pearson on Friday 18 September 09 11:23 BST (UK)
hi
i will check this out with durham
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Friday 18 September 09 15:00 BST (UK)
Anthony

I thought I had come across this question before. To avoid duplication of searching see this link http://www.rootschat.com/links/074r/


Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Friday 20 November 09 22:15 GMT (UK)
To Anthony Pearson. Maybe this will help you to work backwards; but I knew a Pearson family in Sheriff Hill around 1948. I don't remember the parents' names but their only child was Pauline (probably born around 1942). I think the father lost a leg, or crippled, in WW2 as he always walked with a limp. I would imagine Pauline was baptized at St. John's, Sheriff Hill.

Regards,   Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: saffy on Sunday 10 January 10 21:36 GMT (UK)
My family lived in the area for many years. They were called SMITH.
Several of them including my grandfather, and g.g grandfather had the Christian name Robson.
They lived Latterly in Robson St Low Fell, and prior to Lowreys Lane.
They attended St Helens and St Johns.

I wondered if anyone might know where Hayes Cottages Windy Nook were please.
My g. grandfather William Smith (son of Robson Smith) was born there in September 1861.
I also cannot find his death. It was between 1901 and 1911 and 0n 1901 his address was Ivy Houses, Eighton Banks Lamesley. He is there with his wife Sarah and  5 children, but not on the 1911 by which time the rest of his family are back at Lowreys Lane.

Appreciate any help thank you.
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Monday 11 January 10 06:42 GMT (UK)
Hi Saffy

If you click on this link http://gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/ and when it loads, it can be slow at times, click on the search tab and on the next page that opens enter NE10 9RP in the keyword box and click search it should take you to a modern day map. If you choose the 1938-1950 map from the select map drop down you should see Hays Cottages. They don't appear on later maps.

Added: There are 2 potential deaths in FreeBMD in Gateshead 1; 1905 aged 47. 2; 1908 aged 45.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: mazzerwake on Sunday 14 February 10 23:38 GMT (UK)
Hi there,

I'm trying to trace a Dorothy Wake. I've already checked the Durham online records which show:
Burials, Gateshead District - Record Number: 457692.2
Location: Gateshead Fell
Church: St. John
Religion: Anglican
11 Apr 1865 Dorothy Wake, of Wreckenton, age: 25
But to tie her in I really need to know if there are any connected family names on the gravestone if one exists.

Any help you can give would be truly appreciated.

Magnus
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Monday 15 February 10 01:35 GMT (UK)
Hi Magnus
Welcome to RootsChat.
I think this could be her.
In Loving Remembrance
Of
Elizabeth Armstrong
Wife of Robert Armstrong
And Daughter of Abraham Asbitt
Who Died 21st August 1899
Aged 78 Years
Also Robert Armstrong
Husband of The Above Who Died
December 17th 1901
Aged 82 Years
Also Ann Dawson
Wife of Abraham Dawson
Who Died 9th September 1853
Aged 52 Years
Also Dorothy Dawson
Daughter of the Above
And Wife of Robert Wake
Who Died (looks like 2nd) of April 1865
Aged 25 Years
Hope that helps

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: mazzerwake on Monday 15 February 10 12:29 GMT (UK)
That is amazing. Many thanks for your help. Looks like a really good fit.

Thanks

Magnus
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: saffy on Monday 15 February 10 12:32 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Preshous on Monday 11 January 10 06:42 GMT (UK)
Hi Saffy
If you click on this link http://gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/ and when it loads, it can be slow at times, click on the search tab and on the next page that opens enter NE10 9RP in the keyword box and click search it should take you to a modern day map. If you choose the 1938-1950 map from the select map drop down you should see Hays Cottages. They don't appear on later maps.
Added: There are 2 potential deaths in FreeBMD in Gateshead 1; 1905 aged 47. 2; 1908 aged 45.
Gary

Gary, thanks so much for this. I hadn't seen that map site before, brilliant. I see they didnt go far at all. They were in the Causey pub a few years later.
Will check out those two deaths.....Thank goodness for the family name Robson Smith, otherwise I wouldnt have got anywhere. Grateful to you.
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Monday 15 February 10 13:06 GMT (UK)
Hi Magnus & Saffy

Magnus I have a photograph of the headstone, just shout up if you would like a copy.

Saffy pleased you found the map useful.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: saffy on Monday 15 February 10 13:25 GMT (UK)
Quote from: saffy on Sunday 10 January 10 21:36 GMT (UK)
My g. grandfather William Smith (son of Robson Smith) was born there in September 1861.
I also cannot find his death. It was between 1901 and 1911 and 0n 1901 his address was Ivy Houses, Eighton Banks Lamesley. He is there with his wife Sarah and  5 children, but not on the 1911 by which time the rest of his family are back at Lowreys Lane.
Appreciate any help thank you.

If he died whilst still at Ivy Houses (I am told near the Angel) Would he be registered in Chester le st.
If it was after they moved to Lowreys Lane, then presumably Gateshead?

Thanks
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Monday 15 February 10 17:32 GMT (UK)
Hi Saffy

According to DRO Eighton Banks was in the registration district of C-L-S 1857 to 1900. No mention of where it was after 1900? I would assume Gateshead.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: saffy on Monday 15 February 10 18:12 GMT (UK)
Once again Gary, thank you very much.
William Smith is needle in a haystack stuff.
I cant afford to buy every possible cert. to find him...

I have tried to check St Johns for graves, as my family went there and also St Helens.
But couldnt find any graves, and dont think I can check the registers on line.
I am in Bedfordshire you see.
Was getting a lot of help from my friend who lives right by St Johns, but she is now in poor health.
Smiths....grrr
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Monday 15 February 10 18:41 GMT (UK)
Hi Saffy
I have checked all my transcriptions for St John plenty of smiths but not a William in sight. If he died at Eighton Banks then he could be buried at St Thomas, Saltwell Road & Gateshead East could be possibilities. If you have a wifes name for William I will look out for him.

Opps sorry about the wife. I see she is called Sarah. Have you got a dob for Sarah??


Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: saffy on Monday 15 February 10 20:49 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Preshous on Monday 15 February 10 18:41 GMT (UK)
Hi Saffy
I have checked all my transcriptions for St John plenty of smiths but not a William in sight. If he died at Eighton Banks then he could be buried at St Thomas, Saltwell Road & Gateshead East could be possibilities. If you have a wifes name for William I will look out for him.
Opps sorry about the wife. I see she is called Sarah. Have you got a dob for Sarah??
Gary

Hi again,
I know all my Smiths were buried in St Johns in my mums time. Her little brother Norman was buried there in 1930. (he was 5) I think my Grandmas sister Jane Williams in 1909 (she was only 15)..
I dont know who else exactly but Smiths and Williams and McTears.

William Smith was born Hays Cottages 11.9.1861.
He was married to Sarah Jane Hall from Middlesbrough in Ven Bede 1888.
She took herself and their younger 3 children up to Cardenden Fife after his death.
To work the pit there.

I know William was alive on the 1901 at Ivy. I know she was widowed on 1911 at 11a Lowerys Lane.
Sometime shortly after the 1911 was when they went to Scotland. She died there in 1932.

Any help much appreciated, and again Thank you.
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: barrettfamily on Wednesday 24 February 10 19:07 GMT (UK)
hi can any one help me find  an ellen daley,death 1909 gateshead could have been in church walk area, husband is michael daley. of gateshead. thanks janet.
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Preshous on Wednesday 24 February 10 19:23 GMT (UK)
Hi Janet
Welcome to RootsChat. The nearest cemetery to Church Walk (that was open in 1909) was Gateshead East. The surname Daley would suggest roman catholic??.

Gary
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: krtbracken on Tuesday 26 October 10 20:39 BST (UK)
Hi. My 3x great grandfather was John Gibson. He was a 'Publican' and after many months of searching I discovered last night (through Ward's directory) that the pub was The Ship, Pelaw Main. He died in 1843 and the pub was taken over by his wife, Eleanor. They lived in Milnew Quay and I originally guessed that the pub was The Staithe Inn because the Parson and White directory has the entry 'John Gibson, Ship Launch' Malune Quay. Do you know anything about The Ship and whether it was the same pub as The Staithe House? I live in Wales so don't know the area at all. My family name is Bousfield but I am also researching Willoughby (I think Dorothy lived in Church Street, Sheriff Hill), Jeffells and Jameson. (I have given up on Brown and Robson).
Best regards
Kathy 
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Porgi on Wednesday 05 January 11 23:37 GMT (UK)
Hi

Are you still able to help withall things Gateshead?

Mine is an enquiry related to a little history of the immediate surrounds.

My GGgparents were publican of the Three Tuns Inn on Sodhouse Bank in Gateshead in the 1890s. They were Joseph and Elizabeth Gladstone who eventually migrated to Australia in 1921 after the war.

My GGGgf father Ben Clough (Joseph's father in law) and his wife Jane also lived there. Ben was a former (retired) inn keeper at the Ladourne Hold Coach & Horses, Birtley.

All the maps I have view of the area  do not show where Sodhouse Bank was.

Are you able to direct me to a website where I could get a map of the old Gateshead of this time?

I would love to find reference for bit of history about the pub as well if possible. All I know is that it was a fairly poor area at this time.

Family history has it that the business was quite troublesome and many patrons did not honour their tabs. In fact we still have an old  violin in the family which was left as payment!

I can't wait to visit Gateshead and hear those soft Geordie accents like my grandfather's (long passed) again. I hope people still have them - maybe next year???

Thanks in anticipation

Porgi
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: rhall36 on Thursday 06 January 11 16:31 GMT (UK)
Porgi, we have something in common, because my ancestors were also owners of The Three Tuns, on Sodhouse Bank, circa 1856 - 1886. On the 1871 census, Sodhouse Bank is referred to as Sheriff Hill, West Side, but the address is clear as The Three Tuns (Public House). My Grandmother was born (1895), just up 'the bank,' and I was born just off the top of the bank (1936).
There is a photo of the old Three Tuns in the Gateshead archives, showing a woman standing out front - has to be your, or my, GGgrandmother.
You can get a good 1895 Ordnance Survey Map of Sheriff Hill from www.alangodfrey.co.uk which shows it as Sodhouse Bank.
Also suggest you read Catherine Cookson's book, "The Whip," which makes mention, several times about 'The Tuns' at Gateshead Fell.
Regards,    Rob Hall, Katy, TEXAS
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: krtbracken on Thursday 06 January 11 17:41 GMT (UK)
Hi Porgi
Since posting my enquiry about the Ship Inn, Milnew Quay (now Bill Quay) I have found a photo of it on the website iSeeGateshead which has many many photos of this area and I have been sent the pub on an old map courtesy of Ken Roddam on the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society Forum.
Good luck with your hunting.
Kathy
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Porgi on Sunday 09 January 11 04:22 GMT (UK)
Thankyou for your leads and followups.

I am fascinated with the history of Gateshead and the people who lived there.

As I said I can't wait to visit. I do believe it was quite a hard existence. My own ancestors seem to have changed address and occupations with every census.

What a brilliant coincidence to connect with a descendant of another previous publican of The Three Tuns a half a world away in the opposite direction to where I live in Melbourne (Aus)!!!

The world really is a small place.

From looking at the region from street level it appears that many of the period buildings have been retained (where possible).

Many of the addresses where "the Gladstones" lived are still there.

Regards

Porgi :D
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: telephonist on Sunday 09 January 11 05:32 GMT (UK)
Please can you look for Elizabeth McNally and her family. She was born to John McNally and Margaret Haney on 28 June 1855 at Church Walk Gateshead.
She had sisters Catherine born 1858 and Isabella born 27th June 1853 Hillgate.
I have never found them in a census.
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: chrisrob200 on Thursday 05 May 11 11:05 BST (UK)
Hello Paula

Is your offer of assistance in the Gateshead Fell area still on?

I am researching my family (Robson). In St John's at Gateshead Fell there is a Robson family plot and I would love some photos of the headstones. Unfortunately I have no family left in Gateshead that I know (or know of for that matter). All my Robsons came from around Gateshead (me too!) back to c.1850 and Chester-le-Street before that.

We moved to Australia when I was 8.

I can provide you with loads of info. My e-mail is *

Regards

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Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: bramhallbill on Thursday 17 May 12 18:06 BST (UK)
Hi MIS we are not local but a lot of our folks came from Eighton Banks & Wrekenton. There was a Boys&Girls Infant School on Wrekenton Rd/High St and one of our folks was the caretaker in 1871 & 1881.
She was Sarah Gildart & was buried in St Thomas's 2nd July 1884.
Our Robsons were also in Windy Nook by the Bay Inn/Bayhorse Inn. &
24,Eighton Terrace & 22 Longbank. I have no idea whats still standing!!
Thanks
Br.bill
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: krtbracken on Friday 18 May 12 15:29 BST (UK)
If the offer is still there, I would love to know if there is a gravestone for my 3x great grandparents, John and Dorothy Bowsfield/Bousfield/Busfield/Bushfield, in St John's Gateshead Fell. Dorothy died in 1846 and John in 1850. I have completed write-ups on both and will try to attach Dorothy's here but John's is 88MB and therefore too big a file. I aim happy to share it if anyone knows of a method to swap e-mail addresses?
Best regards
Kathy
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: Tree Tales on Friday 25 May 12 12:36 BST (UK)
We are "visiting" Malune Quay on the http://www.hebburn.org.uk/ again.
Title: Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
Post by: sillgen on Friday 25 May 12 15:30 BST (UK)
The original poster of this offer has not been on rootschat for some years now so I have locked it and will move it to the Completed board to avoid people being disappointed that there is no response.. 
regards
Andrea