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I am researching my OHs 4x G Grandparents William WILSON and his wife Mary (nee CURWEN).
I've done ok with them and their children and it all seems to be adding up.

A tree on Ancestry has a photo of a headstone in St Bridget which marks their grave but the photo is not the best and is too blurred to make out properly It seems to have been photographed looking down at it and though I can make out Nursery House and a couple of names the rest is undecipherable.

If anyone is near enough, is visiting the churchyard and is able to take a photo I'd be very grateful.

I do have a MI barebones transcript from Whitehaven Archives but as the archivist pointed out that the transcriber noted names, relationships and dates and all other wording has been omitted.

Wilson
William, of Nursry Houses             Jan 8th 1871 - 73
Mary, w                               Feb 8th 1847 - 48
Isaac, s lost at sea                  Jul 13th 1845 - 19
Ann, d                                        Jul 19th 1851 - 29
William, s                            Jul 15th 1853 - 22
Thomas, s                             Feb 1st 1866 - 23
Ann, wife of William                  Jan 18th 1875 - 32

Note that last name, Ann, was his second wife who he married post civil registration and that record tells me William's father was Andrew, a farmer.

 Boo

Does anyone know if Newcastle Local Studies Library have microfilms of these burial registers?
I have access to the grave registers on FS

If so and someone is going to the library please could they check burials in Oct 1876 to see if there is an Eliza Annie Able/Abel who died at Carliol St on 18 Oct 1876 and is possibly buried on 21st Oct 1876

Burials in Consecrated area, Ward XIV, Section 6I graves 4 & 5
two grave register entries an early one :
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJ7-CSW5-R?
and a later one (when the graves were full):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJ7-CSW5-R?

Have a squint at the first image, it looks like she was buried in 1874 - which has then been copied over onto the next register book

and I looked (for blooming ages with every single variation on spelling/wild cards I could think of and then did it all again to be sure) but am unable to find a death registration for her in 1874.
but I did see one for Q4 1876 and (as its lots cheaper and quicker than a burial register copy from TWAS) I got the digital image and its for a 10 month baby Eliza Annie Able, who died at 26 Carliol Street on 18 Oct 1876, daughter of George Able a french polisher and his wife Matilda.

It feels right and does fit the death register entry, but she's the only person in either of those graves who is not related and it wasn't usual for the cemeteries to open a new grave for a little one so I'd like to be sure and then can stop mithering over it :-)

Though if the library doesn't have the burial registers I will just live with the 'on balance its right' as  the Newcastle Bereavement Dept charge £27 to find out and a TWAS copy for £7 is overpriced too.

Boo

Newcastle Evening Chronicle 6th Sep 1918
page 2 , col 2

I believe there are 6 In Memoriam notices for John Craig Anderson who died 6th Sep 1917 from gas and shell shock. These are online but not readable, I tried and failed :-(

I am certainly not asking anyone to sit and transcribe 6 notices, that is too big an ask,
but if anyone has time to look at the film and tell me if the images on film are actually readable (though it may need a different lens to the standard one)  then I'll see if I can order and pay the library for a copy.

Thanks

Boo

Private L/9839, 16th (The Queen's) Lancers
Born 24 May 1890, Holbrook, Derbyshire son of Robert and Martha Hislop,
Married Sarah Rowland 04 Aug 1917, St Peter, Belper, Derbyshire
Died of wounds 09 April 1918, buried at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
Is remembered on the war memorial in Holbrook, the village he was born and grew up in.

If anyone has the time to give this photo a clean it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Boo

If anyone is visiting the Local Studies dept at Newcastle Library and has some of that magic 'spare time', please would you do me a favour and look in the Evening Chronicle for a death notice?

I am looking for a notice for Surname QUARRIE.
not entirely sure but I believe she was a nun who had taught at La Sagesse, Jesmond for many years.

Her birth name was Annie Ellen Quarrie and her religious name was Sister Marguerite Marie/Margaret Mary. She died on 11th May 1999 so any notice would be a couple of days or so after that.

Online notices I have seen in earlier years for other nuns at this convent have death notices using their birth surname and give their birth forename and religious name so I am hoping there is one for this lady that either proves or disproves my theory.

thanks

Boo