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Title: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: dermo on Friday 16 November 12 00:29 GMT (UK)
Hi
I'm posting from Ireland.  I have a reference to the marriage of James Hetherington to Elizabeth Slattery in April 1926 at St Oswald's, Gateshead.  James emigrated from Co. Kilkenny, Ireland sometime after 1911.  I found the marriage index reference on Ancestry but was hoping to find the parish record which might contain more useful detail.  I was also hoping to get birth records for their children, if any.  As far as I can see, Ancestry has few, if any, Durham RC parish records.  Am I correct?  If not, could someone please point me in the right direction.  If such records are not on Ancestry, is there another source?

Thanks in advance

Dermo
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: barryd on Friday 16 November 12 01:21 GMT (UK)
I could not find the marriage on Durham Records Online or familysearch.org

However familysearch (Genealogical Society of Utah) does have records for this church but its marriages end 5 years prior to the Hetherington/Slattery marriage. That is assuming that the marriage was at St. Oswald's Wreckenton, Gateshead. The Tyne and Wear (Gateshead formerly in County Durham) Archives may or MAY NOT have the 1926 marriages. The records for 1926 may still be at St. Oswald's. I have given you a link that explains more.

Free BMD indicates that the marriage is between April/May/June of 1926 in the Gateshead area.

https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F19231
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: dermo on Friday 16 November 12 11:25 GMT (UK)
Hi Barryd
Many thanks for the information.  Looks like an online source is unlikely then.  The information on the marriage came from an annotation to James Hetherington's baptismal record in Co. Kilkenny.  It reads "married to Elizabeth Slattery at St Oswalls Hexem and Newcastle April 17th 1926".  I discovered Hexem and Newcastle is the diocese and it includes three churches named St Oswald, one of which is in Wrekenton, Gateshead.  Like you, I assume that is the relevant one since the marriage was registered in Gateshead.
It seems the only course is to get the civil marriage certificate.
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: barryd on Friday 16 November 12 12:25 GMT (UK)
Hexham is 30 plus miles west of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The full information on 1926 marriages is fairly rare on the Internet. I agree you have done as much as you can do. It would be more cost effective just to buy the certificate!
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: trish1120 on Friday 16 November 12 12:40 GMT (UK)
Childrens Births are Reg under HEATHERINGTON, Mothers MN Slattery, 1927-1938
(FreeBMD)
(Cant post as could be living)

Trish :)
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: dermo on Friday 16 November 12 15:14 GMT (UK)
Trish

Thanks you so much for your help.  That certainly seems to be the family I'm after.  The slight change in the spelling of the surname was very important - using Hetherington produces no matches!  I should have thought of this too.  James Hetherington and his brother William emigrated  to England and Scotland, respectively.  The family lore is that one, at least, returned with the spelling of his surname altered. 

Thanks again for the assistance.

Kind regards

Dermot
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: trish1120 on Saturday 17 November 12 10:15 GMT (UK)
Your welcome Dermot :)
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: Mercel on Sunday 09 December 12 15:38 GMT (UK)
I have to agree with searching using the 'a' in Heatherington. I have a Hetherington in my family tree and searched for months to find them only to realize that their surname was spelled with the 'a' on some records and without it on others.

Good luck
Mercel :-*
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: ailwine on Tuesday 05 August 14 19:45 BST (UK)
Hi, With reference to your post, James Heatherington and Elizabeth Slattery were my grand parents. If I can help you with any answers you can contact me at ailwine@hotmail.com. They did have 5 children if that helps.
Cheers
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: Jimgar511 on Monday 25 March 24 23:10 GMT (UK)
Hello,

I appreciate this is an old forum post, but I am a great grandchild of James Heatherington (from his daughter Ann).
I would love to contact you dermo, and learn more about the family.
Thanks,
James.
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: trish1120 on Wednesday 27 March 24 08:48 GMT (UK)
Welcome to Rootschat Jimgar511.

This is a very old query  and demo was on here in Feb this year.

Hopefully they will reply to you soon.

Trish :)
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: dermo on Wednesday 27 March 24 12:59 GMT (UK)
Hello James
I think the best thing would be for you to DM me with your e-mail address and we can go from there.
I'm not 100% sure of the rules but I believe you may need to have a minimum of three posts in order to use the direct message feature so you may need to post a couple of pro-forma replies to this to allow you to DM.
Dermo
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: Jimgar511 on Wednesday 27 March 24 21:14 GMT (UK)
Brilliant, thank you dermo!
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: Jimgar511 on Wednesday 27 March 24 21:14 GMT (UK)
Hopefully I can DM shortly :)
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: trish1120 on Thursday 28 March 24 09:25 GMT (UK)
You are right dermo 3 replies needed to activate pm system :)
Title: Re: Hetherington and Slattery
Post by: Spelk on Thursday 28 March 24 11:29 GMT (UK)
I assume that Dermo could send a PM (personal message) to James without waiting for James to have made another two posts.