Hi All, I am aware that Newcastle library have indexes to burial registers on microfilm for certain years, can any one give me an example as to what info these contain, have contacted the library but no one there appears to know anything about the contents of these records that they hold Thank you Edith

Edith: A lot depends on which period you are referring to! As you don't mention that important point, I shall try to cover all periods. I assume, however, you are interested only in the pre-1837 period, as indexes to all deaths in the Newcastle registration district (not quite t he same as all burials in "Newcastle" but very similar) As far as I am aware, from the National Index of Parish Registers, the only index in Newcastle Library relating to any Newcastle burial register is that for St Nicholas 1587-1773. Volume 28 of the publications of the Durham and Northumberland Parish Register Society covers St Nicholas' marriages and that will include an index but as far as I know, no burials are included as it is marriages only. As you probably know, Newcastle had four "ancient" (ie pre-1600) parishes: St Nicholas (now the Cathedral), St John, St Andrew and All Saints. That library does have the H M Wood transcripts of all the Newcastle parishes up to 1812 - baptisms, marriages and burials, but in general they are not indexed. If you look at them and see an index at the back - beware! Wood often made "partial indexes" which tend to cover only those, usually prominent, families in which he or his antiquarian friends had a particular interest. There may well be effective indexes to some Newcastle parishes for some periods in the National Burial Index (NBI: published by the FFHS - the Federation of Family History Societies). I understand that all submissions to that index are passed to FindMyPast, which includes al the current (2nd) edition and that IF there is to be another (3rd) edition of the NBI it will all be included on FindMyPast anyway. I myself have recently completed transcripts covering certain years for St Andrew's and St Paul's for those purposes, for the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society (NDFHS). In addition, note that the NDFHS publish, on microfiche, on CD and possibly as a booklet, indexes for (a) Northumberland and (b) Co Durham, covering ALL burials within each of those counties, 1813-39. See their web site at www.ndfhs.org.uk, and look under the "Ancestral Indexes" section. Geoff Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: Edith Talbot <[email protected]> To: northumbria <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:02 Subject: [NMB] HELP WITH NEWCASTLE BURIAL REGISTERS Hi All, I am aware that Newcastle library have indexes to burial registers on microfilm for certain years, can any one give me an example as to what info these contain, have contacted the library but no one there appears to know anything about the contents of these records that they hold Thank you Edith .. Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message