Blackhill Cemetery COMPLETED

[fruitlady]

I just read the question posted by Rose224.  I had been on the gravetext site before looking for ancestors who died prior to 1862.  Are those not transcribed yet or is that the year the cemetery opened?  I am looking for Bushby family: mother Emma Isabella d1861, daughter Emma Elizabeth d1861 and possibly two other children George d1856 and Mary d1860.  Is there another place I should be checking?
Sue

[Wearsider]

According to the booklet 'Cemeteries in County Durham' published by Durham County Record Office, Blackhill Cemetery opened on 21st May 1862.

Wearsider.

[JenB]

According to the booklet 'Cemeteries in County Durham' published by Durham County Record Office, Blackhill Cemetery opened on 21st May 1862.

Fruitlady,
Also please note that in the introduction to the gravetext site http://www.gravetext.co.uk/Blackhill/blackhill.html it is made clear that the transcriptions currently available there only relate to what is known as the 'Old' Graveyard, and that work is still continuing on the enormous task of transcribing the inscriptions from the 'New' Graveyard.

You will have to look else where for burials before 1862. Do you know where your ancestors lived as this might give some clues?

Jennifer

[JayG]

Their burials are most likely to be in the churchyard of where they were living when they died.  These registers will be at County Hall.

Cheers

Jay

[fruitlady]

Wearsider,
Thank you for the opening date.  That answers that question.

Jennifer,
I don't know where they lived.  Her mother and brother lived in Black Hill.  Her brother, Anthony Evelyn Turner, and his wife Jane are buried in Blackhill Cemetery Section O.
Their mother Jane Williams Wood Turner died 26 May 1862 but doesn't appear to be buried in Blackhill Cemetery which I now know opened just five days before.  She was living with Anthony.  
I have lost track of Emma after her marriage in 1851 so will have to keep searching.  If I order the death certificate will it tell me where she was living?

Jay,
Thanks for the info.  Now I just need to find our where she was living.  Would that County Hall be in Durham?

Sue

[JayG]

Sorrry Sue, yes County Hall (Durham Records Office) is at Durham.

http://www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice/usp.nsf/pws/durham+record+office+-+durham+record+office+homepage

Cheers

Jay

[fruitlady]

Thanks, Jay.  I will be visiting England in November so this is helpful information.
Sue

[pb3]

Sue
           
       I have attached a PDF of the burial records available for the Bushby/Bush family in Blackhill cemetery. The two earliest records may prove useful.

       The most useful place to look for information prior to May 1862 would probably be the records of St. Cuthbert's  C of E church on Church Bank, Shotley Bridge. You should be able to access these through Durham Records Office as mentioned by other respondents.

        PatB

[fruitlady]

Thanks, Pat.