Holy Trinity, Seghill. Dodds Family

[Kateb]

John Dodds who was killed in accident at Mares Close Farm in September 1914 is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard.  His wife, Margaret, is buried with him.  I am unable to trace the death registration for Margaret and am unsure where or when she died.  How can I find out when she died?

[diddymiller]

kateb,
]do you know who died first - it would help to narrow down the search. is there a stone?
also were they any children who might have registered the death?

Diddy

[diddymiller]

do you have 1901 census to give us ages?

do you have death cert for John - think this is it:

john Dodds  sept Q 1914  tynemouth 10b / 353

this gives his age at 66 - born abt 1848 - trying to find them on census

Diddy

[Kateb]

John died first.  The family was scattered after his death as he was a tennant farmer and Margaret and the children had to leave the farm.  The older girls went into service and the eldest son was in the army.  The younger children went into a "children's home" and I wonder whether this was actually a workhouse or whether there was a childrens home somewhere near Seaton Sluice because I think my mother used to take them out on her day off.

[Kateb]

Yes I have them on the 1901 census.  Margaret was born in 1865 so she would have been about 49 when John died.

[diddymiller]

search on freebmd deaths 1915 - 1950 (margaret 80) - only one fits birth date:

margaret  a Dodds  mar Q 1927 morpeth 10b / 581

age given as 62 (bith date 1865)

Diddy

[Kateb]

Many thanks for looking.  However, I don't think this is my Margaret.  2 reasons - (a) she wasn't Margaret A and (b) she died "shortly after" John of "a broken heart".  Have you any idea how I could find the burial records for Holy Trinity?

[diddymiller]

there is some info on Genuki, northumberland. look under Earsdon parish.

Diddy

[JenB]

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