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Topic: Deaths at Seaton Sluice-burial place(s)? (Read 3107 times)
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Annied22
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Gary, I'm with you 100%. I'd like to keep my family's burial plot tidy, but I know that come the summer, it'll be completely inaccessible to me because it'll be surrounded by 3' high nettles. I'm one of the lucky ones in that the headstone is relatively clear of ivy and still easy to read.
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Dickinson, Forster, Crisp, Davy, Sankey, Herdman, Watts, Elder, Seaton Sluice
Vezey, London
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Annied22
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Gary, please PM me when you plan to go there next and if I haven't got anything on, I'll make another visit at the same time. Like I said in an earlier post, I'm not that keen to go there on my own as it's so isolated, but I'd like to get some sharper shots of the family headstone and have a better look around in the hopes that I might find some more of my relatives.
As we discussed earlier, a lot of the folk buried there, including my family, were very poor. It must have been a source of great pride to them to be able to leave a plot and a "grand" headstone behind. That it's all been left to fall into such an overgrown mess shows a lack of respect that takes the breath away.
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Dickinson, Forster, Crisp, Davy, Sankey, Herdman, Watts, Elder, Seaton Sluice
Vezey, London
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belhay
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Hi Its great to see that so many of you are interested in Earsdon churchyard. I must have hundreds of relatives buried there having Learmouths from 1580 living at Old hartley. The only headstone which I can whithout risking limb is Thomas langley 1840 1885 which is one of the few by the church. Even so my husband had to use a stick to get past the nettles. You would think that the council workmen would have the sense to place the headstones with the names upward when laying them flat. A hint for the sharp famliy. most of them buried after 1900 are in Seaton churchyard. Names available for anyone interested. The Sharps are connected to the Langley dickinson dixon tully watson bewick smith stott hay willey learmouth cook hall swan blacks, families of old hartley and seaton sluice to name but a few. Old hartley was pronounced as Hartla And Seaton sluice as the Pans by anyone born there. the Astley Arms only ever know by the area the Boiling Well. The area was quite prosporous in 1800s shipping salt and coal and headstones for graves were easily come by due to the many stonemasons in the area (for anyone that is who had more relatives than a widow to pay for them) Andrea
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micksharp
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Yes, thanks Andrea.
I'm not sure what my family's links are with Hartley. Suffice to say that my great great grandad William was living somewhere there when he married Elizabeth Dobie in 1879 (at St Alban's!). One of William's sisters (Mary) married Richard Bl(r?)oomfield and was living in Quarry Row, Hartley, from about 1881. There is, I suppose, the possibility that she took her brother in for a while. Prior to this, my branch of the family were in Durham. I'm hoping there were relatives already in Hartley.
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Sharp (Yorshire, Durham Northumberland)
Millar, Miller (Bannockburn, Edinburgh)
Brooks, Middleton, Liddle, Sutcliffe
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belhay
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hi I,ve looked at the census for quarry row new hartley 1881 and William Sharp of durham is not in the area He is however in the colliery rows at Ashington 1891 1901. There is a William Sharp in the Workhouse Durham 1871. I,ve checked through my Sharps and can,t find any connection with William of durham My mother moved from Old Hartley to quarry row New Hartley in 1921 and I have vague recollections of the row but it was up towards Hartley Pit. she had a wonderful memory and I should have asked her more about the area years ago. Andrea
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meadbh
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Hi Andrea,
I noticed that you mentioned the surname Laidler in connection with your mother's cousins and you also said that your mother had a cousin named Dryden Sharp. Is there a connection to Matthew Laidler who married Susannah Dryden in 1837? They had a son named Andrew Dryden Laidler, born at Hartley in 1841, who in turn had a son named Andrew Laidler, born at Earsdon in 1888. In 1909 this Andrew married my great-aunt, Eveline Bird, daughter of the Samuel and Jane Bird whose gravestone I have been trying to find in St Alban's!
Kath
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belhay
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re Laidlers My mothers bridesmaid was her cousin Elsie laidler of new Hartley but apart from the laidlers being called Mathew and Andrew and now having a large Fruit and Veg business I don,t know a lot about them. The reason men in our family were called Dryden had nothing to do with the surname although I know there was a Dryden family in Old Hartley Our family were named after the ship that my greatgrandfather was captain of when he died. SS Dryden. I haven,t yet found out if the ship was owned by the Dryden family of the area. I,m waiting for the 1911 census coming to tell me which Hay sister married a Laidler. Andrea
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