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Thank you River Tyne Lass and rosie99,

That volume of memorial inscriptions that Newcastle library holds and which is also on FindMyPast
is also available free online and I have been through it page by page. It's very spotty and mostly much newer memorials.

If I had both dates, I would buy the images direct from Durham Record Office because I want them to have the money to do more digitizing, but their research fees are beyond my means.

Cheers,
Westoe

Completed at last. Thank you.

Thank you Hillhurst. I appreciate your time and effort.

Yes, I've seen that catalogue description on TNA's site. But it doesn't tell me anything about size or organization.

Then I  tried TWAS's website to see if their catalogue subdivides this file into smaller subfiles each with a bit more description.

But the homepage there bears this message:
"The Archives catalogue is currently unavailable due to essential maintenance."

Hence my post on RootsChat.

Yes, I have used the Apprentices collection on FindMyPast and I currently have Ancestry. I have also trawled the Historical Newspapers collection with all my surnames, place names, unusual forenames plus every combination of job-related terms I can conjure - sailmaker as one word, sail maker as two words, sailoft as one word, two words, single 'l', double 'l' etc. etc. etc. I've been researching these people for over two decades. I've looked at everything on those digitized pages, not just the articles that have been OCR'd.

What I need to know before contacting TWAS for a quote on copying is how big the file is in total and how it is organized because there is little sense in my buying digitized copies of records from 1662 when my time frame starts at 1750, possibly 1744 at absolute max and ends 1830, possibly 1846 at absolute max.

That's why I simply asked if anyone on this forum has already "been there, done that".

Cheers,
Westoe

William Joseph Thompson continued...

This is reply #47 in this thread

Newcastle Journal
26 Jan 1872
Town Talk
- Report of William Joseph Thompson
- Russian Vice Consul at North Shields
- has tried to require vessels lying at Shields to report at Shields
- current agreement is that vessels may report to any of the 3 ports,
- North and South Shields and Newcastle,
- whichever is most convenient for masters
- described as attempt to "filch away trade" from Newcastle
- to the benefit of Mr Thompson, being the Russian Vice-Consul at North Shields

Shields Daily Gazette
05 Feb 1874
Suppression Of The Russian Vice Consulate At Shields
The Journal de St Petersburg, the official organ of the Russian Government, contains the announcement that Mr William Joseph Thompson, the Russian Vice-Consul at Shields, has been relieved of his functions by reason of the suppression of the Vice-Consulate at that port.

I can add a little bit more from Shields Gazette, Thursday, 12 August, 1858

"NOTICE. - RUSSIAN VICE-CONSULATE.- Mr RALPH TURNBULL respectfully intimates to Ship Captains and others, that the Russian Vice-Consulate Office has been removed to 38, Bedford Street, North Shields."

So that antedates??? your William Thompson, but interestingly, in 1858, the property was owned by another Thompson, albeit unrelated.

We believe the office was located on part of the land currently occupied by the Beacon Shopping Centre.

In the 1901 Census, Robert John Terrell and Jane Cosgrove and family were living at 38 Bedford Street.

Cheers,
Wesoe