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Family History Beginners Board / Re: My mysterious great grandad
« on: Thursday 16 July 15 21:08 BST (UK)  »
Elaine

If there's any way I can help you, just let me know. I live in Whitley Bay (not too far from Duchess Street) and might be able to look for information for you locally.

Thanks

Mick

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: My mysterious great grandad
« on: Thursday 16 July 15 14:12 BST (UK)  »
No, I don't think Elaine's Hugh is related to mine.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: My mysterious great grandad
« on: Thursday 16 July 15 13:45 BST (UK)  »
Yes, that's my great granddad.

His father David Millar - a weaver, if I remember correctly -  and mother Helen/Ellen Miller moved to Glasgow and then Edinburgh at the end of the nineteenth century. Ellen died quite young and David remarried a Janet Duthie. Hugh had a brother Alexander. By way of Fife, Hugh ended up in Shiremoor, Northumberland, to work in the pits there. Hotspur Place was part of the 'original' Shiremoor - the family moved to nearby Duchess Street, which was built soon after. The Middletons lived on Duke Street, I think, which backed onto Duchess.

Hugh never discussed his past and his children (my nana included) thought he had been brought up in a children's orphanage. As it happened, he was born illegitimate. But I think David was his father - he and Ellen married in Glasgow soon after. My dad is called Hugh Millar Sharp, as he was born on 26 January, the birthdate of his granda Hugh!

Mick

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: My mysterious great grandad
« on: Thursday 16 July 15 13:22 BST (UK)  »
That's right, Elaine. Ellen was my gran.

Mick

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: My mysterious great grandad
« on: Thursday 16 July 15 09:12 BST (UK)  »
Hi Elaine

There is a Duchess Street in Whitley Bay. It's still there. The Duchess Street where my great granda Hugh Millar lived was in Shiremoor, then a small pit village about 4 miles inland from Whitley Bay. He was born in St Ninian's, Stirling, in 1882.

Do you want a photo of 11 Duchess Street, Whitley Bay as it is today? I live in Whitley and could pop around.

Thanks

Mick

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Northumberland / Re: Deaths at Seaton Sluice-burial place(s)?completed
« on: Tuesday 29 July 14 15:49 BST (UK)  »
Bev

We have got in the indexes:

Thomas Thew, d.9.7.1843, aged3
Margaret Thew, d.4.9.1865, aged 22
Philip Thew, d.18.3.1872, aged 20
Thomas Thew, d.30.12.1876, aged 65
William Shield Thew, d.21.9.1881, aged 14
Thomas E. Thew, d.12.11.1885, aged 20
Eleanor Thew, d.23.9.1898, aged 83

They are all buried in plot A146.

Thanks

Mick

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Northumberland / Re: Deaths at Seaton Sluice-burial place(s)?completed
« on: Tuesday 29 July 14 15:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi Bev

I have got some indexes of the plots in St Alban's. We have formed a St Alban's Earsdon Graveyard Group, with the intention of making an online resource/database of the graveyard.

I'll have a look in the indexes to see if there are any Thews, Taylors, or Dixons. Do you have any dates for them, as the indexes cover the graveyard, not the Council-run cemetery at the bottom of the hill.

Thanks, Mick

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Europe / Re: The 'Swedish Sailor'
« on: Wednesday 26 March 14 16:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Sarah

Yes please, that would be much appreciated.

Mick

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Europe / Re: The 'Swedish Sailor'
« on: Wednesday 26 March 14 15:15 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Ian.

The search continues!

Mick

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