4,501 burials at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery from 1 Jan 1898 to 12 May 1900. Some samples of the detail in these records:

• 5 Jan 1898 Thomas Fowler Thatcher, of 10 Boughton Street, age: 67, grocer
• 10 Jan 1898 Andrew Nicholson, of 55 Brougham Street, age: 8 weeks, son of Charles W. Nicholson
• 9 Jan 1898 Lucy Long, of 31 Mordey Street, age: 51, wife of Dennis Long
• 30 Jan 1898 Morris Frank, of 19 East Street, age: 4 months, son of David Frank, Quaker

This brings our research at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery to an end for the time being. We have transcribed 61,348 burials from the cemetery’s opening in 1856 to 12 May 1900. Now we will switch our attention to Sunderland cemetery in Stockton Road, Grangetown, which opened on June 2, 1858. This is the last of the big burial grounds in Greater Sunderland to be covered by us and will add immeasurably to our understanding of the city’s history.  Within a few months, genealogists will have a 99.9% chance of instantly locating the graves of their Sunderland ancestors who died before 1900.

1,192 baptisms at South Shields St. Hilda’s for the years 1828 and 1829

786 baptisms and 436 burials at Hetton-le-Hole St. Nicholas from the time the church opened in Nov 1832 to the end of 1835, transcribed from the Bishop’s Transcript.  Previously part of the parish of Houghton-le-Spring, this church served the coal mining communities of Brick Garth, Cross Lanes, Downs Lane, Easington Lane, Elemore Vale, Eppleton, Hetton-le-Hole, High Downs, Low Downs, Low Moorsley, Lyons, Murton Lane, and South Hetton. According to Pigot’s 1834 Directory of County Durham, the population of Hetton expanded from about 500 in 1821 to nearly 8,000 in 1834, with most of those dependent on the colliery for a living, and the baptism register reflects that population exposion !

970 baptisms at Stockton St. Thomas 1798-1806, from the Bishop’s Transcript. This parish is not indexed by the IGI nor by any other online index that we know of, and this is the period rich in parental detail. For example:

• 8 Apr 1798 John Portus Walton, born 30 Jul 1797, son of William Walton (hatter, native of Hexham, Northumberland) by his wife Sarah Portus (native of this parish)
• 17 Aug 1806 Isabella Lorrain, born 27 Dec 1805, 2nd daughter of Thomas Lorrain (husbandman, native of Dilstone in th parish of Corbridge, Northumberland) by his second wife Elizabeth Whorlton (native of this parish)

Since Stockton was a port town, it attracted settlers from many other regions, and you will find many parents who were born in Cumberland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, and places further away.

512 burials at Kelloe St. Helen from 1838 to the end of 1840, from the Bishop’s Transcript. Residences mentioned include Blackgate, Cassop, Clarence Hetton, Coxhoe, East Hetton, Church Kelloe & Town Kelloe, New Thornley, Quarrington & Quarrington Hill, West Hetton, Wingate Grange, and Wingate Lane.

492 burials at Jarrow St. Paul from 1813 to the end of 1819, from the Bishop’s Transcript.  This marks our first offering of burials in the South Shields district. Residents at this time mostly resided at Jarrow Colliery and Hebburn Colliery; other abodes mentioned include Jarrow, Hebburn, Hedworth, Howden, Monckton, Newcastle (just across the river), South Shields & the colliery there, and Templetown.

We will continue our coverage of Jarrow baptisms and burials to 1837, then we will backtrack and do 1798-1812 and pre-1798.

273 baptisms, transcribed from the Bishop’s Transcript. Abodes mentioned include Claypath, Elvet Bridge, St. Nicholas, St. Oswald, and St. Giles. This parish is not in the IGI after 1812 and, as far as we know, we offer the only online index for it.

263 baptisms from 1813-1817 at Auckland St. Helen, transcribed from the Bishop’s Transcript

565 baptisms 1813-1817 at Jarrow St. Paul. From January to the end of August in 1813, the clerk continued including the maiden surnames of mothers (as he would have been directed to do in earlier years), but after that he stopped. Sample:

• 26 Aug 1813 Richard Nicholson Turner, of Jarrow Colliery, born 20-Aug 1813, son of Thomas Turner (waggoner) & Barbara Nicholson
• 6 Jan 1816 Agnes Storey Arrowsmith, of Jarrow Colliery, daughter of William Arrowsmith (shipwright) & Mary

These were taken from the Bishop’s Transcript. Burials for the same period to follow soon.

190 baptisms and 56 burials at Cockfield St. Mary in Teesdale district, for 1813-1818, taken from the Bishop’s Transcript. The area covered by this parish includes Cockfield, Butterknowle, Gaundless Lead Mill, Copley, Esperley Lane, Lunton Hill, Lynesack, Morley, Southside, Westpitts, and Woodland.