Blackhill Cemetery

[Malcolm33]

thanks very much for the heads up on Leadgate will check it out

   Hello Again Bernice,  Further to my previous post it came to mind that you could learn a lot if you join the Consett Heritage Facebook forum - https://www.facebook.com/groups/213017885386150/

    There was even a question on Leadgate 14 hours ago - where did the name come from and the answer that came in was all IRISH.

     I don't think I was in Consett at the time of Sarah's decease, although I do know I was there in August 1939 as a wedding group photo was published in the Evening Chronicle 10th August 1939 with me in it as a 6 year old page boy.    I only got sent back to Consett mid 1940 when the Blitz got really bad, so did then know Leadgate fairly well.

     All sorts of things can emerge from the Consett Heritage page.   Last year when discussing my great Aunt Edie Bonell, a lady chipped in to tell us that they had just lifted their kitchen floor tiles and carved into the wooden floor boards in big capital letters there was 'EDITH AND ERNEST BONELL 1935'.

     I can't think where else Sarah Anne might be buried.   All my lot are down in Blackhill, right opposite grandad's old home.   Perhaps an error in her name in the records?

     If found, I could ask a cousin to photograph the grave site for you,

      All the best Malcolm, in Melbourne these last many years - but dtr in law is from Christchurch

[stevej60]

St Ives church is situated in Leadgate it has a churchyard might be worth checking out for burial's.

[bernice52]

Yes she was  a widow living there on the 1939 Register with 3 sons and daughter Lizzie
prior to that on the 1911 they were in  Elm st Tow Law Durham husband and sons are Miners,
the key to her burial maybe James as he died in 1938 but dont know how long she had been in Leadgate?
hope this extra info helps to locate her
thanks

[bernice52]

thanks for the suggestion Malcolm but we dont do facebook,
we were concentrating our research on her daughter from  Craghead . but just thought it would be nice to put her to bed so to speak, and the death cert led me to try to go further but its harder from overseas as you will know
thanks Bernice

[bernice52]

Hi Steve
I put both MOOR & MOORE into find a grave but no hits at St Ives Churchyard in Durham so that seems a dead end too
thanks for your suggestion

[Malcolm33]

thanks for the suggestion Malcolm but we dont do facebook,
we were concentrating our research on her daughter from  Craghead . but just thought it would be nice to put her to bed so to speak, and the death cert led me to try to go further but its harder from overseas as you will know
thanks Bernice

     Yes it would be good to know at least where she rests.   I feel sure that there would be an obit.  At a quick glance at British Newspaper Archives I don't see one but there again they have so few papers digitised - not at all as helpful as Papers Past NZ.     I know only too well from my own research.    I was fortunate back in the 1980's through my work to get quite a few trips home and always found a bit of time for research.

      My Great Aunt Emma Wilson nee Oliver with whom I lived during the War years in Consett, died December 1943, not long after Sarah.    There is a long obituary in the Consett Guardian or the Consett Chronicle which I found when visiting Durham County Records Office.   These papers like those of Stockton are not in BNA so not in FindMyPast either.   

       You can only find such an obit for a Consettonian by looking at the Consett papers and these will be in Durham County Records and I think at Consett Library.

       So I wonder if there is any kind person living in Consett who could take a look at the Guardian for January 1940?

       Malcolm

[bernice52]

Hi Malcolm what an amazing coincidence Sarah Ann Moor's maiden name is  also Wilson & her daughter Rachel Wilson married and emigrated to NZ.
I went to Auckland libraries but there was no Consett papers to choose from as you mentioned .
So my only hope now would be a local being able to do a look up ??
thanks Bernice

[Malcolm33]

Hi Malcolm what an amazing coincidence Sarah Ann Moor's maiden name is  also Wilson & her daughter Rachel Wilson married and emigrated to NZ.
I went to Auckland libraries but there was no Consett papers to choose from as you mentioned .
So my only hope now would be a local being able to do a look up ??
thanks Bernice

      Hi Bernice,
 
          I have to laugh or go crackers.     You see a few of us have been helping one of my cousin's cousin to try and trace Wilson's from all around Consett and down south as far as Fatfield, for several months now.    I have just been inundated with yet another batch.

          So will see if cousin Claire of Shotley Bridge who knows were everyone is in Blackhill Cemetery - well got to use a bit of licence - can possibly get into Consett Library and have a look for any obits that date.

          May take a while.   Ga Canny, Malcolm

[bernice52]

Hi Malcolm
Thanks
Our Thomas Wilson originally  hailed from Northumberland. & After marriage to  Mary Ann (NEE Taylor) was in  Auckland at Byers Green, then Durham Tow Law. they had 3 daughters & a son Arthur we were unable to trace. but as we found there were a lot of Wilsons in the area, so don't expect any connection. just goes to show how these forums can have unexpected contacts
Cheers Bernice