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Sorry but this is the answer you didn't want to hear.  Patrick Riley is not buried in Easington Lane Cemetery or South Hetton or Hetton le Hole or Houghton le Spring. They are all the obvious ones I thought he could be in if he wasn't in the Easington Lane one . I'm guessing he must have moved before he died.
Marie

Hi Trev,
You can obviously get info from the census, but I go to the records office regularly ( you need to book at least 2 weeks in advance). There you can view the christening records which give you the parents names and quite often the birth date is written at the side. You can view the marriage certificates providing you know the church they were married in , that also applies to christenings. You can print out the marriage certificates for 50p each. You can view the buriel records which tells you when they were buried and their last address and age when they died. Some parishes have grave indexes so you can look to see if they had a headstone and roughly where in the churchyard it was .  I had a relative who was in Winterton asylum for years in the 1890's and you can view his health records and why he was in there in the 1st place. If you're really into family history you have to go!!!!!
Marie

I am doing my own tree and need to go there sometime anyway to look for a grave for myself. I live 2 minutes away. Yes Gargles Farm was demolished and has a small housing estate built there

Lilywhite Terrace and High street all still exist today and are in Easington Lane, so hopefully he was still there when he died. I will look at the buried records for Easington Lane 1st. I go to the records office on the 3rd March so I will be in contact then. If i find a match in the records I will go to the cemetery and hopefully get a photo if there is a headstone, I live in Hetton so its not far

I am going to Durham record office in march would you like me to look up the cemetry records for you as there is a chance he cold be in south hetton cemetery also