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Offline Pete E

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Dumped headstones?
« on: Tuesday 27 July 10 11:52 BST (UK) »
Just read the topic on Tynemouth general cemetary by Irish Geordie; this reminded me that about 20+ years ago whilst walking near St Marys island, Whitley Bay I noticed several stones lying on the shore near the sea wall & I recall some were written on. I wondered then where did they had come from, were they damaged wares from stone masons or had they been taken from a cemetary to use as sea defences; are they still there?
Northumberland; Mann, Lynn, Waters, Pyle, Murray.   Yorkshire; Ellis, Heckison, Proctor.<br />Lincolnshire; Wilkinson, Dawson.<br />Cumberland; Doran, Murray. Cheshire; Sutton,

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Re: Dumped headstones?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 04 December 14 18:42 GMT (UK) »
St Mary's Island was used as a graveyard for burying washed up bodies, and it was also used as a quarantine hospital. Were the gravestones on the island side of the causeway? It is known locally as a 'Holy Island'
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Re: Dumped headstones?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 11 December 14 17:29 GMT (UK) »
Years ago here in the north east people did carve their names on stone I'm sure my husband has his name on a stone near the beach just something young lads did ,just like on a tree
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