Gwyneth: Enjoy! If you visit the NDFHS web site you can see the large selection of MI lists they have for sale - microfiche, A5 booklet or CD, as you wish. If you order several on CD they can be supplied all on the same CD. Dealing, as I frequently do, with many of those families, and being interested in local history anyway, I either know or, until recently, used to know, those of their businesses which still survived. I therefore find their MIs fascinating. The NDFHS S Tyneside branch, of which I am Chairman, once had a conducted tour of Newcastle General Cemetery. Our guide - Alan Morgan! Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Gwyneth Watson User <cannycot@gmail.com> To: Geoff Nicholson <geoff.nicholson@aol.co.uk>; northumbria <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:20 Subject: Re: Beyond the Grave / A Fine & Private Place Hi Geoff, As you know I sourced the above, one in Australia and the other from England. As the NDHS doesn't charge postage and Australia did, the price worked out evenly as I had to pay the English exchange rate. However I received the English one a week before I received the other from Adelaide which only arrived yesterday. Guess what I'm doing on a very wet Saturday morning here in Sydney? Cheers & thanks Gwyneth

Hello, I¹m sorting out my Dodds line and have the following: Durham Diocese Bishop¹s Transcripts 1700-1900 - All Saints Newcastle Upon Tyne Deaths 1811 Christian Dodds died Mar 18, buried Mar 21, St Ann¹s Row, wife of John Dodds, Agent, late Stephenson Could someone please tell me would she have been living in St Ann¹s Row when she died and where is it please? Cheers Gwyneth Sydney

Gwyneth: If her address in the burial register was "St Anne's Row", then that will be where she had been living immediately before her death. I was rather surprised, given the period, to see that her age was apparently not mentioned. Your message does pose a certain little puzzle. St Ann's Row is a terrace of houses set back from what is now called City Road, about half a mile east of All Saints' Church. Between City Road and St Ann's Row there is the church and churchyard of St Ann's church. St Ann's was originally a Chapel of Ease for the parish of All Saints, and served the Ouseburn and Byker areas, while All Saints itself concentrated on those parts of its parish which were more in the city centre, including the Quayside with its various "Chares" or narrow lanes. To put it crudely, All Saints covered those parts of its parish which lay within the old city walls, while St Ann's covered those parts of the parish which were outside them The early registers of St Anne's include some (to us) hilarious items of correspondence, being messages from the Vicar of All Saints (and upwards in the Church Hierarchy) to the Priest in charge at St Anne's, telling him to desist in keeping a separate register, and to leave it to the man at All Saints to record events in his parish register! It seems there may have been more than one of the priests at St Anne's who chose to ignore those messages, possibly to the detriment of his own career, and keep on entering events in his own register regardless! The puzzle, to me at least, is why, if Christian Dodds lived in St Anne's Row, right next to St Anne's church, was she not buried there? One thing which springs to mind directly is that possibly she was, but the entry was put into All Saints' register, as explained above. Another is that perhaps there was a family grave in All Saints' churchyard and she, or her family, had wanted her buried there. As I have explained, the registers will be too biased for their entries or non-entries to mean much, either the originals or the BTs. St Anne's MIs are available from the NDFHS (see www.ndfhs.org.uk), but of course many graves never had a stone and many of those which had, especially in those inner-city parishes have suffered from vandalism over the years, and All Saints' MIs have never, to my knowledge, been properly recorded. There is a book compiled about a century ago by the ubiquitous Edwin Dodds and friends, now in Newcastle Library, entitled "Pedigrees from Stones in All Saints' Churchyard", but the emphasis is on the pedigrees rather than the inscriptions themselves and there is no guarantee that all the stones were taken into account - perhaps it was just those considered "interesting" or "important"! Geoff Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: Gwyneth Watson User via <northumbria@rootsweb.com> To: northumbria <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 5:47 Subject: [NMB] St Ann's Row Hello, I¹m sorting out my Dodds line and have the following: Durham Diocese Bishop¹s Transcripts 1700-1900 - All Saints Newcastle Upon Tyne Deaths 1811 Christian Dodds died Mar 18, buried Mar 21, St Ann¹s Row, wife of John Dodds, Agent, late Stephenson Could someone please tell me would she have been living in St Ann¹s Row when she died and where is it please? Cheers Gwyneth Sydney .. Please quote the minimum necessary to put your reply on context. Please introduce yourself at the top of every post. The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message