Parish record for st. John's - Seaton Sluice

[Michael Dixon]

Cosbygp,

 Yes, St Alban's was the " mother" church for the whole territory of the Parish of Earsdon. And Seaton Sluice and Hartley communities within that territory.

In early days St Albans was the only C of E church within terrotory. Then as populations grew and moved "chapels of ease" were established to save folks shoe leather. Eventually these chapels got their independence from the mother church.

 I deliberately threw at you only C of E churches that were operating in the era of the birth of your target.

And that takes care of C of E business. However if the family were not C of E, then churches of other religious denominations were available both within and outside of the Parish bounds.

I notice a church dedicated to St Paul was in the Seaton Sluice, but in modern times.

And in about 1886 a C of E church, in Backworth was dedicated to John the Baptist. Backworth at the time lay within the Parish of Eardson, about mile and a half west of Eardson.  But for folk from Seaton Sluice the journey to the Parish church in Earsdon village would have been shorter than hike to St John's Backworth !

Michael

[Cosbygp]

Thanks Michael.

I presume then that the likliest place for Robert's baptism is St.Alban's then.

Do you know if anyone has access to these records or where I ould get hold of them?

i think they would come in useful. I have a lot of ancestos from this area and now presume that a good deal of them would have used St.Albans. I know that I have at least one of my line buried there.

[Michael Dixon]

 The appropriate GenUKI website  pages explain where the records of each church are accessible. St Albans records available in Northumberland County Record Office @ Woodhorn ( you might have to sweatheart C-side Christine)
and also in Tyne & Wear Archives @ Newcastle.

That is assuming your family were Anglicans.

A very very handy web page>>>>   
http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/nblmap.html   

an interactive nparish maps that leads to the A-Z of each parish- head for "Church Records" sections.

Michael

[c-side]

Is that me volunteered again, Michael? 

I can check this one out on Wednesday - fortunately Earsdon records are legible at this time - which is more than can be said for the earlier ones!

Once you get back to about 1844, Cosby, the BTs are online so you can use these to check whether your ancestors are there or not.

Christine

[Cosbygp]

That's great, thank you.

Thanks all for the info, I am really grateful.

[c-side]

I hate being the bearer of bad news but I couldn't see a Robert Smith baptised in Earsdon in your time scale.  I checked through to the end of 1878 in case they were a little late with the baptism but no luck.

I also checked out Seghill - they just might have gone through Seaton Delaval to Seghill church but, alas, they didn't.

And for good measure I looked at St. Cuthbert's Blyth but no luck there either.

Sorry

Christine

[Cosbygp]

That is bad news indeed!

Nevermind. I suppose I'll have to request the Robert Smith birth certs till I find the right one.

Thank you very much for looking.

[Radcliff]

Christine I am sure you have probably seen this ,

Robert and Margaret Smith  have a daughter,Mary Hannah Smith baptised 20 th of May 1879,born March 21 st 1879,Seaton Delavel,
Familysearch,

of course I don't know if they are the parents of Robert Smith

[Cosbygp]

Hi Radcliff

Not sure about Mary Hannah, she doesn't appear on the 1881 census.

On the 1881 we have:

Robert Smith aged 39 - Bottle maker
Mgt Smith aged 38
Thomas Smith aged 12.
John Smith aged 8.
Robert Smith aged 5.
Mgt Smith aged 2.
Arch Smith aged 3 months.

It states that all of them were born in Seaton Sluice. I have found Archibald Smith's birth on Free BMD so I could at least request that to get a bit more info.