Research Notes

Parish Notes Northumberland

Bedlington St Cuthbert

[Population 1911: 8,105]

The Parish Chest

EP 39/4 Baptisms & Burials 1779-1812

Page	Name & Abode	Descent, Profession, Trade, &c.	Died	Buried	Age
50	A Stranger	Found by the sea side at Cambois supposed drowned - found in a putrified state	Nov 4th 1804	Nov 4th 1804	supposed 15 yrs

EP 39/9 Burials 1813-1847

Note on endpapers reads: "August 25, 1824. Received of Mr Martin Morrison the sum of Twenty one Pounds for the privilege of erecting a Large Monument to the Memory of Mrs Catherine Morrison late of Sunderland."

Page	Name	Abode	Date	Age
9/66	An aged woman Name unknown	Her remains in a very putrid state found yesterday on the Rocks at North Blyth	Febry 12th 1815	-
67/534	A Seaman Found drowned	Bedlington	23rd 8ber 1827	supposed 30
69/545	Mary a Travelling woman Surname Unknown	Morpeth	Decr 21st 1827	65 years
80/639	An unknown Male found Drowned	West Slake burn	May 12th 1830	Infant

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Non-Parochial Records

Newcastle Courant 13/12/1844 A large clock has just been placed in the tower of Bedlington church, by Mr Waldie, clockmaker, Blyth. It has been purchased by subscription, and will be a great convenience to the inhabitants of the village.

Newcastle Courant 5/12/1851 William Crawford, a poor shoemaker, aged 90, left Bedlington recently, carrying a "kit," weighing above 30lbs., but, without a change of raiment, and with only a few pence, to walk to Nantwich, his native place, a distance of nearly 200 miles, hoping to get work there with his only brother, a shoemaker, and to die there. This journey he actually accomplished in three weeks, arriving on a Sunday, when he was recognized by an old lady coming from church, though he had not been there for forty years, and was overpowered on being informed that his brother and brother's son were both dead. He went to the widow's house, was attacked with diarrhoea, was removed to the workhouse, and soon died.

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