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I'm saying that the register gives the place of baptism as Shotley Bridge; abode as Hole Row, Mosswood (Shotley parish).  Most of the entries in the register - if one scans a few pages - belong in Newcastle, but the transcriber seems to have carried that forward from somewhere.  I believe this register is a compilation similar to Bishop's Transcripts, from several Primitive Methodist chapels.  For one thing the entries are not in date order, sometimes jumping a few months forward or back.  Luckily one of the public trees on Ancestry includes a link to it which allows me to read it.
It would be great if you were to check up on things though ....     Andrew

Yes, that's the one. Actually he wasn't baptised in Newcastle - that's a glaring transcription error from a Primitive Methodist register, most of which related to N'cle.  Wilkinson was done in Shotley Bridge - much more likely - in September 1836, which I think is the year the new Shotley St.John's church opened at Snods Edge.  Interestingly, another baptism is on that 1836 register, of Jane Archer who later married one of Wilkinson's older brothers, Joseph.  She was done in January, and again in November when maybe the church had opened for business.
It looks as if Wilkinson may have died before Registration started the following summer?

Thanks again, Gaffy, and sorry if it seems bizarre to you.  I was hoping maybe to hear something less  accessible than what is easily found on the web; and I thought that the info about 5 children might indicate that I wasn't totally in the dark.  My hopes weren't high however.  :-)

What happened to H R McIlwain, who married Anne F Tarr in Cork City in 1892q2  ? There were 2 sons and 3 daughters 1893-99 before he deserted the family.  He worked at the Haulbowline base in Cork Harbour.

My gt-grandfather C K Liversidge (variously spelt) was manager until he died of typhoid on Boxing Day 1877.  It seems his place was taken by his brother-in-law Henry Young from Liverpool, but in the hiatus the men were not paid, resulting in a dispute.  In Feb.1878 a small coastal ship was damaged while loading a 2½-ton limestone block, which led to a court case a year later.

Any information about H.Young's stay in Anglesey would be welcome.  I can't find him anywhere in the 1881 census, when his family was in Wavertree; he died in 1889.