I am glad these burial finds are helpful. I have now transferred both to you and so you will be able to add to bios as you wish.
North Shields local studies is great as they have index volumes with names of people who were buried at cemeteries in a given year. So I was able to see quite quickly that a Francis and a Mary Graham were buried at Church Bank before moving on to the microfilm which has the full burial info on.
The index volumes also record if the grave was purchased. I did notice when I checked for Francis that he is not recorded as in a register of purchased graves, so I would imagine they will be in unmarked plots.
https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk/category/557/contact-bereavement-services
Perhaps if you email bereavement services they might put up a temporary marker for you so you will know the exact spot. I don't know if this applies but I do know that at least up until fairly recently they were doing this service for free. It might be worth enquiring to see if it is still free.
Do you mean the index volumes as in books which you can leaf through?
I did get an email bak from the bereavement services, "For any grave search requests, please contact our office on 0191 643 6070. Please note that a payment of £10 is required before we can carry out each grave search."
I have been at the local studios in Newcastle city library on both the computer version on the microfilm reader and the actual microfilm reader, scrolling through to to find exactly where in Elswick and St. John cemetery my ancestor Charles Graham who died in the workhouse in 1910, was buried and it was a most unpleasant experience, with the neck and shoulders locked (I have mulculoskeletal issues) and the neauseous vertigo from looking at the moving screen as I also have problems with my eyesight.
On the most recent visit I thought "this is horrible, why am I doing this to myself?
I was really very happy a while back around 2021 to be able to look at the original volumes in tyne and wear archives when the microfilm readers were closed due to covid restrictions. I got some fantastic discoveries there.
Because I already have a map of Church bank with the sections marked on it I was able to go and see where my relatives Francis and Mary were buried. Not exactly where but roughly.
So Catherine and Mary Ann were sisters, daughter of John Coleman and Mary Ann Coleman nee Dixon. Mary Ann Coleman nee Dixon was also buried in Church Bank. John Coleman in "Preston" due to dying in the Tynemouth workhouse.
Catherine and Mary Ann Coleman had 4 brothers. Samuel Dixon Coleman died as an infant, 1871-1871.
John Coleman infant death 1873 -1873
John Coleman infant death 1877-1877
James Coleman as far as I know remained single , 1878 -1915 died in WW1 Hooge Belgium.
I think the babies re probably in Church Bank Cemetery.
Please note that Mary Ann Coleman married Francis Graham. All her babies had mother's maiden name Coleman and Father's name Graham.
Her sister Catherine Dixon Coleman married Patrick Graham. Therefore all her babies had mother's maiden name Coleman and Father's name Graham. Do not mix these children up!
