1,579 baptisms at Sunderland Holy Trinity covering 1818-1820, from the Bishop’s Transcript with some checking against the parish register. Abodes shown are mostly street names in Sunderland, plus Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth, and a few from North Shields and Houghton-le-Spring.
The Sunderland registers are more valuable than many from this period because the clerk continued recording the mother’s maiden surname and the child’s birth date. Here are some samples:
- 11 Jan 1818 Charlotte Margaret Craggs, of Robinson’s Lane, born 29 Dec 1817, daughter of George Craggs (mariner) & Mary Ogle
- 17 Feb 1819 Isabella Bellamy [Bellarby], of Burleigh Street, born 12 Dec 1818, daughter of John Bellamy [Bellarby] (mariner) & Margaret Bell
- 15 Dec 1820 Charles Lamb Taylor, of George Street, born 12 Aug 1820, son of William Taylor (keelman) & Mary Johnson
In case you missed these last time we mentioned them, here are 3 interesting web sites on Sunderland history:
- Peter Searle’s Sunderland Website – lots of pages on Sunderland history, including some maps – fun to browse through
- Sunderland Ancestors – lots of old photos and stories about Sunderland, plus CDs for sale of the Raine’s Eye Plan, local history booklets, and other Sunderland info
- Sunderland Maritime Heritage – this site has a map of where the shipyards were pre-1900 and a little history on some of them – explore the Archive for more stories on ships and shipyards of Sunderland