497 burials at Muggleswick from 1 Jan 1852 to 27 May 1902, and 49 baptisms covering 1852-1854.  The baptisms and burials for 1852-54 are from the Bishop’s Transcript; the rest of the burials are from the parish register. Residences mentioned include Bankfoot, Benfieldside, Berry Edge, Birkhot, Burn Hill Junction, Burnhope, Calf Hall, Castleside in Lanchester parish, Cold Rowley, Comb Field House, Consett, Cotehouse, Cowshed Leazes, Fell Close, Gold Hill, Greenside, Harehope, Healeyfield, Hisehope, Horsleyhope, Lamb Shield, Leadgate, Meeting Slack, Mown Meadows, Muggleswick, Peddam’s Oak, Shildon & Waskerley Waterworks, Smiddy Shaw Reservoir, Spring House, The Deans, The Shield, Tow Law, Twain or Twin House, and Waskerley.

Baptism samples:

• 10 Oct 1852 Elizabeth Gaskill, of Horsleyhope Mill, daughter of Joshua Gaskill (gamekeeper) & Mary
• 14 Jul 1854 Kossuth [Cuthbert Kossuth] Waugh, of Waskerley, son of John Waugh (labourer) & Anne
  [Note: Just Kossuth in the register, but Cuthbert Kossuth Waugh in the GRO birth index. Some children in this period were named after Louis Kossuth, a leader in the Hungarian revolution.]

Burial samples:

• 2 Jan 1852 Anne Temperley, of Castleside, age: 37
• 1 Nov 1862 Benjamin Readshaw, of Cold Rowley, age: 93 years 6 months
• 21 Apr 1878 Mary Bulman, of The Shield, Muggleswick, age: 65, grandmother of William Bulman Sanderson who was buried on May 17.
• 10 Aug 1897 Joseph Fenwick Bulman, of Birkhott, age: 10 years 9 months

643 burials at Middleton St. George (St. George) in Darlington district from 1 January 1813 to 11 Dec 1903. Residences mentioned include Darlington, Dinsdale, Fighting Cocks, Ginger Bread House, Goosepool, Killinghall, Lingfield, Littleburn, Low Middleton, Middleton One Row, Middleton St. George, Mill House, Oak Tree, Old Row, Smeaton (YKS), Station Row, Stockton, Stodda, Throstle Nest, West Hartburn, and Yarm (YKS).

• 27 Feb 1813 Thomas Trueman, of Oak Tree, age: 57
• 18 Nov 1826 Isobel Pinchard, of Middleton One Row, age: 94
• 20 Apr 1844 Frederick Henry Cocks Fortune, of Oak Tree House, age: 10, accidentally killed by a fall from a horse.
• 23 Dec 1873 Ralph Moor, of Sadberge, age: 31, very sudden death.
• 13 Nov 1894 Henry Andrew William Cocks [Cox], of Low Middleton Hall, age: 89
  [Note: He was 88 according to the GRO death index.]
• 15 Jul 1901 Sarah Smales, of Middleton One Row, age: 87

4,244 burials at Medomsley St. Mary Magdalene in Lanchester district from January 2, 1852 to November 19, 1960. Residences mentioned include Allendale Cottages, Annfield Plain, Beech Grove, Belle Vue, Benfieldside, Berry Edge, Blackhall Mill, Bradley Cottages, Broomhill, Bunker Hill, Burdon’s Cottages, Burnopfield, Chopwell, Consett, Croniwell, Crook Hall, Daisy Hill, Dene Bank, Derwent Cote, Derwent Cottages, Dipton, Ebchester, Elm Park, Fell Cottages, Fines Cottages, Gateshead, Hamsterley Colliery, Iveston, Lanchester, Leadgate, Medomsley, Medomsley Edge, Milkwell Burn, North View, Peel’s Cottages, Pit House, Pleasant View, Pont (Head, House, and View), Red Fines, Rowlands Gill, Shotley Bridge, Snows Green, South Moor, Villa Real, West View, Westwood, and Westwood Colliery.

Some samples:

• 25 Jan 1852 William Surtees Mosley, of Shotley Bridge, age: 8 weeks
• 25 Jul 1858 Ann [Nancy] Armstrong, of The Ship, Chopwell, age: 88, commonly called Nancy Armstrong
• 18 Dec 1879 Thomas Cuthbertson, of Medomsley, age: 90
• 4 Aug 1899 Sarah Elizabeth Little, of Allendale Cottages, age: 86
• 8 Apr 1920 Francis Ridley, of 7 Fern Terrace, Derwent Cottages, age: 47, soldier. Died from result of gas poisoning.
• 26 Feb 1931 Hannah Bramley, of 8 New Fines Road, age: 91, as certified under the Burials Amendment Act 1880
• 9 Aug 1960 Jennie Winifred Hindmarch, of 5 Pleasant View, Medomsley, age: 66, ceremony performed by P.T.B.B. Lutton, Vicar of Stambermill, Stourbridge.

Replaced the index to baptisms at Whickham St. Mary for 1813-1819 with full details, so those 992 baptisms are now instantly available, including one we had missed the first time around. We were delighted to find that the record keepers in this parish continued recording parental birthplaces and the name of the mother’s father, long after it was no longer required. For example:

• 18 Apr 1813 Albert Errington, of Fellside, born 2-Mar 1813, 2nd son of William Errington (woodman, native of this parish) by his wife Jane Horn (native of Houghton-le-Spring, daughter of John)
• 5 May 1816 Sarah Lister, of Whickham, born 15-Apr 1816, 4th daughter of John Lister (mason, native of this parish) by his wife Sarah Atkinson (native of Bishopwearmouth, daughter of William)
• 14 Apr 1819 Cecilia Dobson, of Swalwell, born 17-Feb 1818, 2nd daughter of Thomas Dobson (smith, native of this parish) by his wife Elizabeth Richardson (native of Felton, [Northumberland], daughter of John)

We should all be so lucky as to have had Whickham ancestors in this period !

2,933 baptisms at Wallsend St. Peter in Northumberland, from the Bishop’s Transcript with some checking against the parish register. Coal miners and other workers moved back and forth across the River Tyne regularly, following the work, so residences mentioned on both sides of the river include Carrville, Chirton, Hetton-le-Hole, Howdon Pans, Jarrow, Longbenton, Murton, Newcastle, North Shields, Percy Main, Point Pleasant, South Shields, Walker, Wallsend, Willington, and Willington Quay. This parish is not indexed by the IGI past 1812, so these records have not been widely available and may produce some discoveries for researchers. Some samples:

• 01 Jan 1813 Jane Roseby, of Wallsend, daughter of Joseph Roseby (pitman) & Ann
• 04 Jun 1820 Thomas Linsley, of [the] Parish of All Saints Newcastle, illegitimate son of Ann Linsley (single woman)
• 18 May 1821 Mary Lothian, of Willington Quay, daughter of John Lothian (keelman) & Mary
• 03 Oct 1830 James Squires, of Wallsend, son of Hannah Squires (single woman)
• 08 Dec 1833 George Bell Chicken, of Howdon Pans, son of George Chicken (mariner) & Elizabeth

737 burials at Durham St. Margaret’s chapelry in the parish of St. Oswald, spanning 1787-1797.  Ages started appearing regularly in Oct 1795. Some samples:

• 17 Apr 1787 Sarah Atkinson, wife of Richard Atkinson
• 12 Jan 1790 Mary Williamson, commonly called Ragg Mary, pauper
• 7 Jul 1791 Mary Bilton, age: 104, widow, P [= poor]
• 4 Feb 1794 Cornelius Gleeson, age: said to be 105 old
• 12 Jul 1795 Gilbert Cornforth, son of George Cornforth & Margaret
• 21 Mar 1797 Samuel Dutton, age: 35, private soldier in the Surrey Militia, killed in a quarrel at the Grey Hound
• 10 Dec 1797 Elizabeth Wilkinson, age: 77, wife of Robert Wilkinson

These are from a combination of the parish register and the Bishop’s Transcript. Specifically, from the BT are Mar 1787-Mar 1788, Mar 1791-Mar 1792, 1794, 1796-97. From the parish register: Mar 1788-Mar 1791, Mar 1792-1793, 1795.

293 marriages at Durham St. Margaret’s chapelry in the parish of St. Oswald, covering 1798-1812, including witnesses, from the Bishop’s Transcript. Some samples:

• 13 Mar 1798 John Penman, of the parish of St. Giles Durham married Elizabeth Millar, of this chapelry, by banns
  Witnesses: Robert Wheatley, Charles Stanley
• 13 Oct 1803 Joseph Ault (sergeant in the 2nd Regiment of the Derbyshire Mil) married Elizabeth Hartley, of this chapelry, by licence
  Witnesses: John Marshall, Mary Lumley
• 9 Apr 1810 George Stott, of the parish of Ayton Banks in the chapelry of Lamesley married Elizabeth Swinburn, by licence
  Witnesses: John Ferons, Jane Curtis

636 baptisms at Durham St. Margaret’s chapelry in the parish of St. Oswald, spanning 1787-1797.  Some samples:

• 7 Nov 1787 Mathew Harburtle, son of Jane Harburtle, AB [= a bastard]
• 6 Jul 1790 Charles Tinkler, son of John Tinkler & Ann, NB: this child was born at Darlington at or about the month of Sepr 1786 & presented in this chapel the sixth day of July 1790 being the day this childs mother was buried
• 3 Jun 1792 William & Ralph Friend, born 11 Feb, sons of Ralph Friend & Dorothy
• 1 Oct 1797 Dorothy Chapman Richardson, born 16 Apr 1797, daughter of Thomas Richardson & Elizabeth

These are from a combination of the parish register and the Bishop’s Transcript. Specifically, from the BT are Mar 1787-Mar 1788, Mar 1791-Mar 1792, 1794, 1796-97. From the parish register: Mar 1788-Mar 1791, Mar 1792-1793, 1795. We did extensive cross-checking of the BT entries against the parish register and found no appreciable differences except for this interesting entry, in which the BT gave more information than the parish register originally had:

• 23 Mar 1788 Hannah Towler [Persons], daughter of William Tower [Towler] & Elizabeth Persons, AB [= a bastard]
  [Note: There is no mention of bastardy or the mother's maiden surname in the parish register, only in the Bishop's Transcript. Also the BT has the father's surname as Tower.]

Replaced the index to baptisms at Whickham St. Mary for 1800-1812 with full details, so those 1,678 baptisms are now instantly available. Some samples from this detail-rich period:

• 13 Nov 1803 Abraham Taylor Coates, of Swalwell, born 25-Dec 1802, 4th son of Taylor Coates (keelman, native of this parish) by his wife Hannah Shield (native of this parish, daughter of Abraham)
• 16 Nov 1812 William Ramsay Lynn Jarvis, of Monkwearmouth, born 2-Nov 1806, 2nd son of Samuel Raymond Jarvis (esquire) by his wife Elizabeth Hannah Days (daughter of John, esquire, of Monkwearmouth)