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Newcastle Archives - Ballast Hill Cemetery
« on: Friday 14 June 19 18:53 BST (UK) »
Is anyone going to the Newcastle Archives - if so I would be really grateful for a lookup in the Ballast Hills Cemetery.
It is of Elizabeth Branford my 3x Gt grandmother.
Burial 6th June 1834.

I would love a digital photo of the record or failing that a transcription of the event.
She has proved very elusive for many years but found a record just recently.

Thank you in anticipation.
 Judy
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CUMBERLAND  Armstrong Little Nixon Richardson Pearson Watson Braithwaite
WESTMORLAND  Richardson Dent Nicholson Hanson Kersey Smith Heigh
DURHAM Reed Smith Reay Hammond Metcalf Bell
Thompson Armstrong Branford Parkin Heaton Oates
NORTHUMB'LAND Nixon Johnson Armstrong Branford Thompson
DUMFRIES Armstrong Bell Halliday Little Carruthers Johnstone
YORKS Richardson Branford Siddle
ROXBURGH Jackson Elliot Armstrong Scott
FIFE Adamson Gosman Brown
AUSTRALIA Richardson Dent Hanson Kersey

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Re: Newcastle Archives - Ballast Hill Cemetery
« Reply #1 on: Friday 14 June 19 21:22 BST (UK) »
Think you are the fellow with  Armstrongs also kin to Joyce/Meredith/White/von Stieglitz...Ireland Australia..think I found a family tree of yours under surname BELL & of Australia...if so tried to contact you.

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Re: Newcastle Archives - Ballast Hill Cemetery
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 15 June 19 10:33 BST (UK) »
Sorry - those Armstrongs are not in my tree. Mine are from Bewcastle Cumberland & Canonbie in Scotland.
Judy
CUMBERLAND  Armstrong Little Nixon Richardson Pearson Watson Braithwaite
WESTMORLAND  Richardson Dent Nicholson Hanson Kersey Smith Heigh
DURHAM Reed Smith Reay Hammond Metcalf Bell
Thompson Armstrong Branford Parkin Heaton Oates
NORTHUMB'LAND Nixon Johnson Armstrong Branford Thompson
DUMFRIES Armstrong Bell Halliday Little Carruthers Johnstone
YORKS Richardson Branford Siddle
ROXBURGH Jackson Elliot Armstrong Scott
FIFE Adamson Gosman Brown
AUSTRALIA Richardson Dent Hanson Kersey

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Re: Newcastle Archives - Ballast Hill Cemetery
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 15 June 19 11:18 BST (UK) »
Found at Newcastle City library this morning for you en route home from my nightshift.  Film is very blurred, I'm afraid so neither staff nor I could make all out.

Ballast Hills 1834 Burial

Entry 361
4 (Not sure what this refers to - might be date of death)
Elizabeth Branford
wife of John Branford
Rank or Profession: Can't make out word
Abode: St (---?)
Age 43
Buried June 6th

With these details Tyne and Wear Archives would likely provide you with a digital copy for about £7 as it would be a look up rather than a search which would cost £30 minimum per hour.
Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner


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Re: Newcastle Archives - Ballast Hill Cemetery
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 15 June 19 19:18 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much for that. I am so pleased.This confirms she is the wife of John Branford (my 3x Gt Grandfather)
His occupation was a Potter or Jobbing Potter
In 1829 they were living at St. Peter's Quay in Newcastle according to the birthplace of his daughter on the 1851 Census. So this could have been Elizabeth's address on the burial.

When I contacted the Tyne & Wear Archives with the information they emailed & said £30 per hour minimum of one hour which I found too steep. I will see if they will send a digital image for £7 which is a more reasonable amount.

I now know for sure they were non-conformists. I wonder which religion.

I really appreciate you doing that - thank you.


Judy
CUMBERLAND  Armstrong Little Nixon Richardson Pearson Watson Braithwaite
WESTMORLAND  Richardson Dent Nicholson Hanson Kersey Smith Heigh
DURHAM Reed Smith Reay Hammond Metcalf Bell
Thompson Armstrong Branford Parkin Heaton Oates
NORTHUMB'LAND Nixon Johnson Armstrong Branford Thompson
DUMFRIES Armstrong Bell Halliday Little Carruthers Johnstone
YORKS Richardson Branford Siddle
ROXBURGH Jackson Elliot Armstrong Scott
FIFE Adamson Gosman Brown
AUSTRALIA Richardson Dent Hanson Kersey

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Re: Newcastle Archives - Ballast Hill Cemetery
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 16 June 19 10:38 BST (UK) »
I am glad to have been able to help.

Actually,  for rank or profession we did think the word  looked something like 'Potter' but I was unsure if I should write this in case this was completely wrong.  i am not sure if this refers to her profession or or husband's - probably the latter.  In retrospect, I do think the abode is likely St Peter.  We did think so at the time but the microfilm was blurry and writing in a cramped style, I didn't want to make guesses.  However, after what you have written, I do now feel a bit more confident that these words are recorded.

I think when you contact the archives make it known to them that the record has been seen at the Newcastle library and that you simply want a copy.  You can relate that the microfilm was blurred and writing cramped but that the the abode and profession appear to record as above.  Name entry and date of burial is straightforward and I found this record easily so I am sure they will be able to as well.

It tends to be that the Archives staff will charge the higher price £30 if they think you want them to search for info which you do not already have - however, as you now have the info and only require a copy of what is written I think they will likely now give the reduced price of £7.  Tyne and Wear Archives have a good scanner machine which can often show up words much better than can be seen on an ordinary microfilm reader, so hopefully the record you receive might show less blurred than the image which the staff member and I looked at yesterday.

Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner

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Re: Newcastle Archives - Ballast Hill Cemetery
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 18 June 19 12:59 BST (UK) »
Thanks I have sent away for that and I am waiting to hear back. Fingers Crossed!!
CUMBERLAND  Armstrong Little Nixon Richardson Pearson Watson Braithwaite
WESTMORLAND  Richardson Dent Nicholson Hanson Kersey Smith Heigh
DURHAM Reed Smith Reay Hammond Metcalf Bell
Thompson Armstrong Branford Parkin Heaton Oates
NORTHUMB'LAND Nixon Johnson Armstrong Branford Thompson
DUMFRIES Armstrong Bell Halliday Little Carruthers Johnstone
YORKS Richardson Branford Siddle
ROXBURGH Jackson Elliot Armstrong Scott
FIFE Adamson Gosman Brown
AUSTRALIA Richardson Dent Hanson Kersey

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Re: Newcastle Archives - Ballast Hill Cemetery
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 20 June 19 21:29 BST (UK) »
Have received a digital photo of the entry.
All as we thought . The place of abode is St Peters. So I am assuming that is St Peters Quay.

Thank you once again for your help.

Judy
CUMBERLAND  Armstrong Little Nixon Richardson Pearson Watson Braithwaite
WESTMORLAND  Richardson Dent Nicholson Hanson Kersey Smith Heigh
DURHAM Reed Smith Reay Hammond Metcalf Bell
Thompson Armstrong Branford Parkin Heaton Oates
NORTHUMB'LAND Nixon Johnson Armstrong Branford Thompson
DUMFRIES Armstrong Bell Halliday Little Carruthers Johnstone
YORKS Richardson Branford Siddle
ROXBURGH Jackson Elliot Armstrong Scott
FIFE Adamson Gosman Brown
AUSTRALIA Richardson Dent Hanson Kersey

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Re: Newcastle Archives - Ballast Hill Cemetery
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 07 November 19 22:29 GMT (UK) »
St peters is an area at the bottom end of byker in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ballast hills cemetery  was at the back of the old ouseburn school at the bottom of albion row ,there were around 700 people buried there over the years the graveyard was closed down and the headstones were either made into a path that encircles the graveyard  some of which are still legible or made into oven bottoms there was an old pottery on the site of British engines Ltd in addition to malings pottery but I suspect you may already know all these things
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