4,879 burials at South Shields covering 1874-1900. Some samples:

• 20 Feb 1880 Frances Alexander, of Wellington Street, age: 104
• 29 Apr 1876 Christopher Rames, of Heugh Street, age: 90
• 04 Mar 1896 Margaret Ritzma, of Harton Workhouse, age: 73
• 01 Jul 1893 George William Wade, of 97 Fort Street, age: 4
• 23 Apr 1898 Frederick Lovitt, of The Ship “Ashacara”, Tyne Dock, age: 21, died on board
• 26 Sep 1875 Liontiena Caroline Morrison Chambers, of Grubb’s Buildings, age: unknown [35], by Coroners Order
  [Note: age "unknown" in register; 35 in GRO death index]

Most of these have street addresses in South Shields or Westoe. There are also some burials from the county asylum at Sedgefield, the Ingham Infirmary, the Harton Workhouse, the South Shields Union Workhouse, and Tyne Dock, and several foreign sailors with German or Scandinavian names who died while in port with their ships.

545 marriages at Monkwearmouth St. Peter covering 1827 to mid 1831, including witnesses. We now have a complete run of marriages at Monkwearmouth St. Peter from 1735 to mid-1837 when civil registration started. Samples:

• 6 Feb 1827 Fortunatus Procter (bachelor), of this parish married Elizabeth Allison (spinster), of this parish, by banns
  Witnesses: George Allison, Margaret Havelock
• 6 Apr 1830 Thomas Cappelby (widower), of this parish married Faithee Jones (widow), of this parish, by banns
  Witnesses: G. Davison, A. Robson

We also added witnesses to the rest of the marriages here in 1831 while we were in the register.  We still need to add witnesses to the 1832-1837 marriages. If you previosly purchased a Monkwearmouth marriage dated 1831, you can now see the witnesses by logging in and clicking My Previous Orders and locating the marriage and viewing it again.