11,247 burials at Gateshead East Cemetery, covering 1901-1906.

Besides many street addresses in Gateshead, residences mentioned include Bensham, Dunston, Felling, Low Fell, Newcastle, Salt Meadows, Teams, and Whitley.

Because these are municipal cemetery records, not church burial records, they present many more genealogically useful details. 99% of these records give either an occupation, a parent or husband’s name, or information about how the person died. Some samples:

• 2 Jan 1901 Sidney Smith, of 25 Marian Street, age: 20, mason
• 12 Jan 1901 Davison Jackson, of 177 Mowbray Street, Heaton, Newcastle, age: 24, labourer, drowned at Hebburn
• 16 Jan 1902 Mary Slavin, of 6 Grahamsley Street, age: 1, daughter of Michael Slavin, Roman Catholic
• 16 Aug 1903 William Weightman, of 75 Westbourne Avenue, age: 48, china merchant, died at the Sedgefield Asylum
• 24 Jan 1904 Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, of 108 Nile Street, Sunderland Road, age: 55, wife of William Robson Stewart
• 6 Jan 1905 Isabella Hutton Roy, of 2 Prospect Place, age: 82, widow of James Roy