St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Stanley - Look up please

[polkadot41]

Hi

I'm looking for a look up for James Brinton who died March quarter 1919, Sedgefield (probably Winterton Hospital) in St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Stanley, Co Durham.

James was discharged from the Northumberland Fusiliers after suffering an accidental gun shot wound to the head but died a little more than a year later.
Many thanks
Anita

[taffie01]

hi anita,

what exactly  do you want looked up?
records for that church will be held by Durham archives at county hall.

taffie

[McTalbert]

Can you tell me what connection you think James BRINTON had with Stanley St. Joseph R.C. Church (the 1911 Census records him as living with his parents in South Moor)?

McTalbert

[CaroleW]

Are you looking for a burial record?

Winterton was the county lunatic asylum.  Sedgefield is approx 26 miles from Stanley so is there a particular reason why you think he may have been buried at St Joseph's in Stanley

[barryd]

South Moor and West Stanley are in walking distance from each other. Slightly more difficult if living in the bottom end of South Moor. C of E churchgoers would have a Church in both West Stanley and South Moor but not the Catholics.

[polkadot41]

Hi

I am looking for a burial record if anyone is going to Durham Records Office.  I have already checked St George's & Dave Burgess at the Council has checked the two in Stanley.
I am looking at St Joseph's as a possible now because James's brother John's name appears on the Altar War Memorial at this church.
I think James may have gone to Winteron Hospital because of his problems after his head injury.  I know from a family member of ours that an uncle saw his days out at this hospital suffering from shell shock and a cousin suffering from eplieptic fits was sent there but the family brought the bodies back home for burial.
None of James's family are buried in the three cemeteries mentioned above.  His mother Catherine having died earlier in 1914.

Anita

[McTalbert]

Anita,

James BRINTON

Stanley New Cemetery was opened on 3rd May 1914 and succeeded Stanley Old Cemetery which had opened on 25th November 1891.

There are no BRINTON headstones in Stanley Old Cemetery. A headstone in Stanley New Cemetery however, shows the following (Section17, Plot 138):

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JAMES BRINTON
1856-1936
ALSO
CATHERINE
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
1864-1914
ALSO
THERESA
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
(THE REST OF THE HEADSTONE HAS SUNK
INTO THE GROUND BUT THERESA WAS
BURIED 10-DEC-1981, AGED 78).

Please let me know if you would like a photograph of the headstone.

As far as James and John BRINTON are concerned their names are recorded on local War Memorial plaques as follows:

South Moor Memorial Park
Memorial Tablet erected by the South Moor Colliery Co. Ltd.
in memory of their employees who fell in the Great War
BRINTON James
BRINTON John

South Moor St. George Church
Memorial plaque erected on the front of the Church.
BRINTON James
BRINTON John

Stanley St. Joseph R.C. Church
Memorial plaque inside the Church.
BRINTON John only.

Please let me know if you would like photographs of the plaques.

Have you got James BRINTON’S Enlistment Papers?.

McTalbert
23-Oct-2014

[polkadot41]

Many thanks McTalbert

Yes I have the service records and I am working on a War Memorial Project (South Moor) with the Council.  The Brinton brothers both appearing on the two memorials you mentioned is what has brought me to try to find James's buriel.

Many thanks for the information from New Stanley Cemetery, I was led to believe that no Brinton name appeared there by the Graves department.  I think I may have to buy James's death certificate to see whether he did infact die at Winterton Hospital; if so he may have been buried there.

Thank you for your help & offer of photos but I think your information will be more than enough 
Anita

[McTalbert]

Anita,

Its a small world.

It looks as though I am doing exactly the same project as you except I am doing it off my own bat and not as part of the Council's Great War Project.

McTalbert