Married in the church before it was built?

[northernsearcher]

Thank you janis for the burials, I am still working on the Biddick connection.  South Biddick sounds like an interesting place in the early 18c. Apparently Biddickers were a rough lot who intimidated excise officers and pressgangs. from:http://joinermarriageindex.co.uk/pjoiner/genuki/DUR/Penshaw/Burnmoordesc.html
The population declined to 74 people by the time of the '41c.  The enumerator explains that all the pit men and their families left because Biddick collieries were becoming exhausted.  Perhaps thats why the family had moved to Wasington
 

[northernsearcher]

Many thanks Alan for all this information. I haven't had a chance to look at it in detail but it is really exciting and I am going to follow up on the leads you have given me.  It's as though more and more pieces of the puzzle are coming together.

The baptisms are really really useful, I had found some of them on Family Search but they don't give all the information that you have given me, for example William's Parish and birthplace. Please can you tell me where you found them?

The baptism for John Burn in '41 is interesting  too because William Tinmouth/Tynesmouth  is the second husband of  Elizabeth Bainbridge John's grandmother. He is living with William and Elizabeth on the '61c.

Thank you again
Jen