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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
« 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.

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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
« 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!


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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
« 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!

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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
« 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.

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Durham / Re: Do you have ancesters in Gateshead Fell 1886?
« on: Monday 27 October 08 10:09 GMT (UK)  »
sorry, i just realised that wasn't meant for me. I should stop reading emails and replying to them at midnight when I'm half asleep!

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Durham / Re: Do you have ancesters in Gateshead Fell 1886?
« on: Monday 27 October 08 00:11 GMT (UK)  »
hi, it rings a bell, i'll have a look for you , paula x :)

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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
« 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

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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
« 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!

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Durham / Re: Do you have ancesters in Gateshead Fell 1886?
« on: Saturday 25 October 08 11:37 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the welcome!

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!

Sorry, I should probably make a new thread for this! I'll do that now ...

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