852 burials at Sunderland Holy Trinity for the year 1855 and January 1856. These are more detailed than the average post-1812 burial, generally naming parents, spouses, occupations, and interesting causes of death. Being a port town, there were lots of mariners and drownings, and there was a cholera outbreak in September 1855 that killed at least 66 people. Some samples:

• 14 Jan 1856 William Whiteman, age: 19, mariner, native of Winchelsea, found drowned in the River
• 9 Feb 1855 Alfred Edward Gill, of John Street, age: 1, died 7 Feb 1855, son of John Gill (officer of Customs)
• 23 May 1855 Elizabeth Craig, of High Street, age: 75, died 20 May 1855, widow of Thomas Craig (master mariner)
• 12 Sep 1855 Eleanor Heslop, of High Street, age: 45, died 11 Sep 1855, wife of John Dodgson Heslop (publican), cholera
• 15 Sep 1855 Isabella Heslop, of High Street, age: 17, died 1(?) Sep 1855, daughter of John Dodgson Heslop (publican), cholera
  [Note: the entry does give a date of death of Sep 1st, but it is surely a clerical error as cholera victims were generally buried within 24 hours of death.]

Residences listed include Bishopwearmouth, the Barracks, Hendon, and Monkwearmouth. Nearly all name the street of abode and nearly a third of them list house numbers.

Filling in our gaps at Jarrow St. Paul, here are 852 baptisms for 1836-1842 and 1847, from the parish register. We now have a continuous run of baptisms at Jarrow from 1813 to the end of 1852. Residences mentioned include, besides Jarrow (East Jarrow, Jarrow Colliery, and Jarrow Row), Hebburn, Curliew, Felling, Hebburn Colliery & Quay, Hedworth, Monkton, Newcastle and Wallsend (across the river), Simonside, and South Shields.

Some samples:

• 3 Jan 1836 Isabella Spoors, of Jarrow Colliery, daughter of Richard Spoors (waggonman) & Sarah
• 22 Apr 1838 Stephen Sibbit, of Jarrow, son of Stephen Sibbit (mason) & Isabella
• 18 Dec 1842 Elizabeth Salkeld, of Jarrow, daughter of John Salkeld (hairdresser) & Hannah