Stuart/Stewart of Gateshead

[sallysmum]

Hi

I was wondering if anyone is tracing the Stuart/Stewart family of Gateshead circa 1846.  I am unable to find my gt grandfather William Stuart who supposedly was born about that time in Gateshead.  His father was allegedly John Stuart, a bottle blower.

This family was the subject of an unsuccessful scavenger hunt www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,353009.0.html
I have posted here with the hope that someone might be researching this family.  As you will see from reading the hunt, I have searched to BMD to no avail

sallysmum

[peter brownlee]

In Oakwellgate Gateshead in the 1851 census there is John Stewart b Scotland aged 32 his wife Isabella b Gateshead aged 31 with a son William aged 5 but his profession is blacksmith.
His son William is an apprentice fitter in 1861 if that fits your man.
Peter

[sallysmum]

Hi Peter
Many thanks for taking the time to look for my man.  Unfortunately this is not my rellie - I have traced the chap you mentioned on the 1871 census.  In 1871 my William was serving in the British army in India thus I am confidently able to dismiss the chap you have found

You will also see from the scavenger hunt that I have been unable to locate the family on either the 1851 or 1861 census.

Kind regards

Sallysmum

[Gadget]

Hi

Have you followed up this one any further?

Jesmond (Newcastle) Northumberland: HO107/2408/318/19

5 year old William Stuart,nephew,  b. Gateshead staying with a Barbara Pitt.

He seems the only one that fits on the 1851. I couldn't tell if he'd been ruled out.

Gadget

[sallysmum]

Hi Gadget

This is interesting and I am aware of it.  I assume this William is either the nephew of William Pitt (found on the 1841) or his wife Barbara.  Thus I need to proove a link between these 2 families and the Stuarts.  So far I haven't found a Pitt-Stuart marriage, and I haven't found Barbara's maiden name (pre registration)

I don't have easy access to the PRs of the NE so this has been quite slow for me

Kind regards
sallysmum

[Gadget]

Hi SM

Have you looked at the BTs on family search pilot. They're not indexed but you might find something.

Here's the link to the top level:

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=waypoint&s=waypointsOnly&c=fs%3A1309819&w=0

Choose a county, then parish, then year, etc.


Gadget

[sallysmum]

thanks Gadget

I've had limited success with this site - I think I have found Wiliam amd Barbara's marriage in Gateshead (looking good as my chap is born there).  Barbara's maiden name is Thomas which suggests that it is her sister that marries my William's father.  However, not all the years preceeding my William's birth are there, thus cannot find a marriage of John Stuart or of a Miss Thomas marrying.

I'll see if I can order the Gateshead PR again to fully trawl through them.  Thanks for your suggestions and I would still be interested if anyone out there is researching this family - they are one big brickwall to me!

sallysmum

[peter brownlee]

In the 1841 census Barbara Pitt is in Jesmond with her husband William a gardener aged c 40. She and her husband are born in Northumberland but her 3 children are born in Muncaster Cumberland. Possibly William Pitt was employed at Muncaster Castle.
Peter

[BLMR]

Hello;

I am at an impasse with my searching, saw your post, and am hoping that someone might have information about my Stuart/Stewarts of Gateside, believed to be Gateshead, Durham, England.  Here is the pertinent information that was gleaned from a researcher, who attempted to assist, and after running out of money to give him to go on, I decided to give it a go.
In his daughter's birth entry in 1855, in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland,  Peter Stewart/Stuart was noted as having been born in 1826 in Gateside, County Durham, England. My researcher deduced that the Durham 'Gateside' appears to be a variant of Gateshead, and he suspected this was the Kilwinning registrar recording what he thought he had heard, as there are many places in Scotland called Gateside, but very few if any in England. 
Here is what we have:
The only possible birth that fits is that of a Peter STEWART born in 1827:
Source: IGI
Peter STUART, son of William STUART and Martha
Born 1 FEB 1827, christened 25 MAR 1827, Gateshead, County Durham
He also checked the English non-conformist records at www.thegenealogist.co.uk/bmdr/ and nothing was found, so he felt this is almost certainly my man.

Using the Record Pilot Search facility at FamilySearch (http://pilot.familysearch.org), there  was a duplicate entry of Peter's baptismal record from the original baptismal register within the Bishops' Transcripts for Durham (p.223 of 558, Durham, Gateshead, 1823-1832 - christening 25 MAR 1827)

Any thoughts, ideas?
Thanks
BLMR