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Cullercoats St Paul

[Population 1911: 14,407]

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Cullercoats St Paul. © 2000 NDFHS.


Church

The church of St. Paul is a stone building in the Early English style, erected in 1864, and consists of chancel, nave, square tower with spire containing 6 bells, and has a clock with chimes. The register dates from the year 1861. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Northumberland, and held by the Rev. Robert Faulding Wheeler, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge. [Kelly's Directory of Northumberland and Durham (1873), page 510.]

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The Parish Chest

EP 61/19 Burials 1864-1882

Page Name Abode Date Age
3/18 Man name unknown - March 24 1865 -
7/56 Man unknown. Body found on Beach nr Cullercoats - Aug. 23 1866 -
23/180 Man unknown name: Body of a sailor washed on shore ... near Cullert. - March 14 1870 -
54/426 Man unknown: Supposed to have been a sailor wrecked at Tynemouth, body found by Storey & Jackson on South Rocks Feb. 21/75. - Feb. 23 1875 -
54/427 Man unknown - Feb. 27 1875 -
94/751 Man name unknown Body washed ashore at Whitley March 9 1881 Age not known
94/752 Man name unknown Body washed ashore at Whitley March 9 1881 Age not known
95/753 Man name unknown Body washed ashore at Whitley March 9 1881 Age not known
95/754 Man name unknown Body washed ashore at Whitley March 9 1881 Age not known
95/755 Man name unknown Body washed ashore at Whitley March 9 1881 Age not known
95/756 Man name unknown Body washed ashore at Whitley March 9 1881 Age not known
95/759 Man name unknown Body washed ashore at Whitley March 9 1881 -

EP 61/20 Burials 1882-1895

Page Name Abode Date Age
4/26 Man unknown Unknown. Body found at Whitley Rocks 29th of August 1882 30th August 1882 unknown
91/724 A man unknown (body washed ashore after the gale of Nov. 18th & 19th) - Nov. 23 1893 Abt. 45 yrs

EP 61/21 Burials 1895-1904

Page Name Abode Date Age
[101]/[806] Male child [see 709] 26 Jesmond Terrace December 23rd 1904 10 hours

EP 61/22 Burials 1905-1911

Page Name Abode Date Age
40/316 A man unknown unknown October 17th 1907 About 40 years
80/636 The body of a Man unknown Found on the sea shore at Whitley Bay July 12th 1910 About 60 yrs

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Non-Parochial Records

A monument on the sea front behind the harbour reads:

ERECTED BY A FEW
FRIENDS IN MEMORY OF
BRYAN JOHN HVTHWAITE
ADAMSON, LIEUT. R.N.
COMMANDING H.M.S. WASP
WHICH SAILED FROM SINGA
PORE SEP. 10TH 1887 AND WAS
NEVER HEARD OF AFTER

THE SITE WAS GIVEN FOR
THIS MEMORIAL BY HIS
GRACE THE DUKE OF
NORTHUMBERLAND 1888

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