Deaths at Seaton Sluice-burial place(s)?completed

[Preshous]

Hi Andrea

That is really usefull information regarding family names. I do notice a trend for certain families to be prominent in certain places. I was talking to a lady who was walking her dog in the church yard,  she was born, bred and still lives in the village, and that she had over 300 members of her family buried at St Albans. She was extremely informative and an absolute pleasure to listen to. I never thought to ask her name.

Gary

[micksharp]

Yes, thanks Andrea.

I'm not sure what my family's links are with Hartley. Suffice to say that my great great grandad William was living somewhere there when he married Elizabeth Dobie in 1879 (at St Alban's!). One of William's sisters (Mary) married Richard Bl(r?)oomfield and was living in Quarry Row, Hartley, from about 1881. There is, I suppose, the possibility that she took her brother in for a while. Prior to this, my branch of the family were in Durham. I'm hoping there were relatives already in Hartley.

[belhay]

hi I,ve looked at the census for quarry row new hartley 1881 and William Sharp of durham  is not in the area He is however in the colliery rows at Ashington 1891 1901.  There is a William Sharp in the Workhouse Durham 1871.  I,ve checked through my Sharps and can,t find any connection with William of durham My mother moved from Old Hartley to quarry row New Hartley in 1921 and I have vague recollections of the row but it was up towards Hartley Pit.  she had a wonderful memory and I should have asked her more about the area years ago.   Andrea

[Preshous]

Hi Andrea

I,m not long back from St Albans. I came across a Gravestone for Anthony & Mary Sharp born around 1700.
are these part of your family? . Its one of the oldest stones I have come across at St Albans.

Gary

[meadbh]

Hi Andrea,

I noticed that you mentioned the surname Laidler in connection with your mother's cousins and you also said that your mother had a cousin named Dryden Sharp. Is there a connection to Matthew Laidler who married Susannah Dryden in 1837? They had a son named Andrew Dryden Laidler, born at Hartley in 1841, who in turn had a son named Andrew Laidler, born at Earsdon in 1888. In 1909 this Andrew married my great-aunt, Eveline Bird, daughter of the Samuel and Jane Bird whose gravestone I have been trying to find in St Alban's!

Kath

[belhay]

re Laidlers My mothers bridesmaid was her cousin Elsie laidler of new Hartley but apart from the laidlers being called Mathew and Andrew and now having a large Fruit and Veg business I don,t know a lot about them.  The reason men in our family were called Dryden  had nothing to do with the surname  although I know there was a Dryden family in Old Hartley   Our family were named after the ship that my greatgrandfather was captain of when he died.  SS Dryden.  I haven,t yet found out if the ship was owned by the Dryden family of the area.  I,m waiting for the 1911 census coming to tell me which Hay sister married a Laidler.  Andrea

[e.dickinson]

hi anied could you please help me with my family tree im also a dickinson john ,james,thomas,margaret,wesley,benjamin some are at the seaton church

[Annied22]

Hi there, I'd be happy to help, but I think you come from a different Dickinson family - unless there were intermarriages I don't know of.

My family arrived in Seaton Sluice in the late 1700s and, to coin a phrase, were "the only Dickinsons in the village" for almost 100 years, which, incidentally, made them very easy to research. I think it was the 1871 census when another Dickinson family appeared, having migrated to Seaton Sluice from, I think, Lincolnshire. (I'm going back some 25 years here, as that's when I did the bulk of my research, so my memory of exact dates and places is iffy to say the least.) John and James are certainly names that appear through the generations of my family, but Wesley and Benjamin definitely belong to the other family.

I understand there are still members of the later family living in Seaton Sluice. To the best of my knowledge all the Dickinsons left in Seaton Sluice are descendants of them, although I'd be absolutely delighted to be proved wrong!

Do you live locally?

[belhay]

hi I think these are the dickinsons yoiu are looking for
Frederick 1899-1931 married Dorothy Bell
Septimus 1896-1950
Joseph1892-1949
Thomas 1891
Henry 1888
Isabella 1886
George 1879
Ben 1886
John 1884
margaret 1881 alice 1876
Wesley 1903-1970 married my mothers cousin Sarah Sharpe
children are Watson 1926 Olive 1927 Elsie 1938 Marjorie 1944
Olive and another sister still live at Seaton Sluice
not up to date on the Earsdon news I,ll have to stop going  on holiday but I,ll let you know a bit more of Dickinsons if you need
belhay