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Re: Shipwreck off South Shields 1861
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 16 July 15 08:07 BST (UK) »
Thanks for that, I wouldn't have expected there to be any gravestones but a plot number would have sufficed, these mariners were from a small fishing village in the north of Scotland and probably crewing the schooner Fowlis out of the herring  season.

Thanks for your efforts

James