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Tynemouth Christ Church

[Population 1911: 16,971 incl. 771 persons enumerated in the Tynemouth Union Workhouse]

Church

Church: Tynemouth Christ Church. Consecrated: 1668. Accommodation: 1,200. Services: 8-30, 11, 7. Vicar: Rev. Canon T. Brutton, Tynemouth Vicarage. Curates: Rev. Forbes Philips. Lovaine Terrace, Rev. F.F.R. Downie, Dockwray Square, Rev. C.H. Cooke, Linskill Terrace. Patron: Duke of Northumberland. Mission: Mission Church (St Faith's), Hudson Street, services 8-30, 11, 6-30. [NEYB (1893) p.135]

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History

EP 52/5 baptisms and burials 1774-1795 - the following is written on the first page:

The Foundation and building of this Church was begun at the expence of this Parish and other good benefactors in the year of our Lord 1659 and afterwards finished at the cost of the same Parishioners and was Consecrated for the Worship and Service of God by the Name of Christs Church by John Lord Bishop of Durham the 5 Day of July Anno 1668 Thos Dockwray then Vicar.

Immediately below this is a note recording that:

Jane, Daughter of Anthony and Jane Surtees was born August 29 - 1785.

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The Parish Chest

EP Burials 1798-1812

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Non-Parochial Records

List of Burials in the Friends' Burial Ground at Cullercoats
from Archaelogia Aeliana Vol. XVI ii (new series) 1894.

Year  Day  Mo.  Name
1661  20   11   Johanna D. George Linton of North Shields
1672  20    7   Alice D. Wm. Dove & Eleanor his wife of Whitley
1672  20   12   Mary Wife John Dove of Whitley
1676            William S. Joseph Lisle of Whitley & Elizth his Wife
1676  12    9   Mary D. William Dove & Eleanor his wife
1679  20    1   John Dove Whitley Died of flux aged 59
1684  14   11   Hannah Selby Wife Robert Selby formerly Wife of John
                Dove of Whitley
1685  18    5   Thomas Fearon of Colourcoats.
1686  18   12   Robert S. Robert & Isabel Curry
1690  20   10   Jeremiah S. John Peel Cullercoats & Ann his Wife
1692  16   10   Jacob S. Robert Storey & Elleanor his Wife
1692  28   10   Elleanor Wife Wm. Dove of Whitley
1694  12   12   Abigail & Margt Ds. of Caleb Tennant & Abigail
1694  28   12   Elizabeth D. John Buston of North Shields Skinner &
                Isabel his Wife
1695  12    2   Temperance Wife of Thomas Buston of North Shields
1696   1   12   Alice Wife of William Ingledew late of Stockton
1696  28   12   Dorothy Wife John Frost No. Shields formerly of
                Burlington
1697  23    2   Benjamin S. Caleb Tennant & Abigail his Wife
1699  11    2   Margaret D. Zephaniah Haddock
1699   8   12   William S. Zephaniah Haddock
1705  17    9   Thomas Sole of Linn Died at North Shields
1706   7    5   Elinor D. Zephaniah Haddock & Eleanor his Wife Aged
                3 mo
1708  12    1   Thomas Richardson of North Shields
1710   1    2   Israell Brown of South Shields
1710   3    9   Joan Robinson Wife of Richard Robinson North Shields
1710  30    9   John Buston
1713  12    1   Ellenor Atkinson Wife of William Atkinson Low Lights
1714   8    5   William Dove of Whitley Aged about 85 years
1716   5    9   Zephaniah S. Zephaniah Haddock & Eleanor his Wife
1716  18   11   Barbara The Wife of Thomas Ffearon of Whitley
1717   3    2   Thomas Fearon of Whitley. 39 & 6 mo
1717  17    2   Ellinor Haydock Wife of Zephaniah Haydock of
                Cullercoats. 45
1727        8   Shem Peirson Mariner
1739  29    3   Zephaniah Haddock of Cullercoats
1818   3   11   John Hewitt S. of Robert Hewitt Draper of North
                Shields

Newcastle Chronicle 2/8/1783 Wednesday morning, a chimney-sweeper's boy about ten years old was unfortunately suffocated in the chimney of a brewhouse, in North Shields.

Berwick Advertiser 24/7/1813 On Saturday afternoon, a dreadful accident happened at Collingwood Main Colliery, near North Shields. By an explosion of fire-damp; eight of the men were killed, and two severely burnt. Among the sufferers were Mr Hope, one of the viewers; Mr Wild, an overman; and two young men of the name Richardson, who, having no parents, maintained their grandmother (now in her 102d year) in a manner which did them great credit. A number of horses were also suffocated.

Newcastle Courant 19/9/1835 [marriage] The 3rd inst. at Tynemouth church, Mr John Pigg, master mariner, of Monkseaton, to Sarah Pettigrove, of Hartley.

Newcastle Courant 30/6/1837 [death] The 27th inst. in Stephenson Street, North Shields, aged 24, Sarah, wife of Mr John Pigg, master mariner.

Newcastle Courant 1/12/1837 [death] The 27th ult. in Buckham's Lane, North Shields, Mrs Mary Pigg, widow.

Newcastle Courant 25/5/1838 [marriage] The 24th inst. at Tynemouth Church, Mr Thomas Pigg, master-mariner, to Miss Ellen Pigg, both of North Shields.

Newcastle Courant 1/2/1839 [death] The 25th, aged 25, Robert, son of Mr Robert Pigg, mariner of North Shields.

Newcastle Courant 18/2/1848 On Tuesday, upwards of one thousand children, belonging to the various schools of North Shields, were admitted, on payment of one penny, to see Hill's panoramic views of Palestine, exhibiting in the Mechanics' Hall, Norfolk Street.

Newcastle Courant 10/8/1849 WAR MEDAL.- Mr John Steuart, of Bedford-street, North Shields, has had a medal granted to him for his services as quarter-master on board the "Circe" frigate in Lord Duncan's action, on the 11th of October, 1797, off Camperdown.

Newcastle Courant 20/2/1874 The Congregational Church in Tynemouth has just been completed by the addition of the spire. The contract for this was taken at £1,250. the work has gone on through the whole of the winter without a single accident to either men or machinery.

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