Presbyterian burial records

[hatofthecat]

Am I right in thinking that there almost no Presbyterian burial records ?  I'm just looking at the Woodhorn leaflet for "Presbyterian and Congretational Registers" and only a handful have any at all.

I have a 2nd marriage for my 3x g grandfather but no burial for his 1st wife at moment, would have been between mid 1820s and 1832 and could be anywhere around Ilderton, Eglingham, Whittingham areas.

[c-side]

Most people were buried in the Church of England churchyard, regardless of denomination until the arrival of civil cemeteries.

Christine

[hatofthecat]

That's what I thought. That small smattering of Presbyterian burial records just had me wondering    I think she could have been burying in a small non CofE graveyard.

[c-side]

Have you tried looking for her on freereg or Durham Bishop's transcripts on family search?  There's also NBI.

Christine

[aghadowey]

Am I right in thinking that there almost no Presbyterian burial records ?  I'm just looking at the Woodhorn leaflet for "Presbyterian and Congretational Registers" and only a handful have any at all.

Not sure about England but in Ireland Presbyterian churches didn't usually keep registers but that's not to say that there weren't burials at Presbyterian churches.

Sometimes you can use Goggle streetview (or satellite view) to see if a particular church does actually have a burying-ground. 

[hatofthecat]

No likely one's on Freereg (two name matches are babies).  I might just have to trawl though the Bishops transcripts images on Familysearch.  The NBI program is refusing to run on my laptop (maybe it doesn't like Windows , will sort later.

[c-side]

Of the three parishes you mention Ilderton is complete on freereg to 1869 for burials.  Likewise for Whittingham but with gaps.  Many of the records on freereg for Northumberland have been taken from the Bishops transcripts so the gaps are likely to be there also.

Eglingham doesn't appear to be included in the BTs 

Christine

[jora]

Ingram is another possibility.

Ingram and Eglingham registers up to 1812 are available on the Internet Archive site at archive.org.

[c-side]

Hi Jora

I know you are way more familiar with the Presbyterian churches in the north of the county than I am.  Going back a few posts, can you think of any big enough to have had its own burial ground?

Christine