In a message dated 27/12/2004 12:12:16 GMT Standard Time, adrobson@supanet.com writes: He `was given a Naval Funeral & was buried at the Bishopwearmouth Church, but which church would this be? Also would anybody know the Training ship in Sunderland that time. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bishopwearmouth Church would be the parish church of St. Michael & All Angles, but he would not have been buried there, as there was no graveyard in 1865. He would probably have been buried in Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, opened in 1856. Tyne & Wear Archive Services have the Indexes to burials 1856-1998, Burial registers 1856-1998, and Graves registers 1884-1998 There was no training ship in Sunderland but there was the Orphan Asylum, founded in 1853, for the children of seafarers, who wore naval uniform and some went on to become ship captains. Regards Stan Mapstone www.mapstone.org