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Well done Linda,

Can see how much time you have put into researching the resting place of your family members.

Once again good luck with all your research - tracing family can and should be fun as you are finding out!!

Best wishes,

Sappho

to the following ,jax,cornish susie,glasgolass,rootchatherer,cynthia and ladykira and all those others, i did not expect this thank you all so much im sure reggie is a good researcher , but as been said can be very very rude and abrupt to the point it upsets people , i have found where william morrison was burried it was the 1 january 1854 at st mary and cuthberts denominata anglican church chester le street durham , i am taking the advice all the people on hear have given me and not give up with posting , i am about to post another post and i will see what happens !!!! once again thatk you to all who havve posted on this thread

I do hate replying to people who then edit their post twice probably three times....which then makes my reply look stupid

I might as well open another account and talk to myself :-D

Having been brought up to reply politely and in a friendly manner to letters, I always try and help on here in the same vein - as if responding personally to a person requiring help. It takes for me to be 'short' with anyone let along someone who is new to researching.


Meanwhile, in case Linda has given up, I will let her know that there is some more advice for her. :-)

This may help for those newspaper records

https://www.facebook.com/TheBritishNewspaperArchive?hc_location=timeline

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Reggie, I'm afraid you had those comments coming. Whilst you're an excellent researcher and very helpful you do need to temper your "no frills" approach with an insight as to how people may perceive your comments. I must admit to wincing sometimes at what you say.

Linda, don't throw your toys out of the pram because of comments you don't like - it takes all sorts and people have different styles. It is helpful to us if you do say where you've already looked.

You may or may not have already tried the following:

http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/NewSearch.php
You can do a free search but if you sign up you can purchase any records found.

I guess you're already familiar with FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ but were you aware of the records they have that aren't indexed so don't come up in name searches? Under the Durham Diocese images they have Chester-le-Street records from 1765 to 1837. You have to patiently browse through the images but it can be well worthwhile.
http://goo.gl/8qK5eR

Oh my goodness! As another Glasgow lass my mammy used to say "if you can't help, don't hinder" and "it costs nothing to be nice".

There's not much to help with on the boards these days and we have to ask ourselves "I wonder why?"

I have a couple of "brick walls" myself but would hesitate to ask for help even though I have been researching for over 30 years. Who wants to be made to look stupid?

I read this thread earlier today.
Linda's response being described as " abrupt " really took the biscuit.

A well known saying sprang to mind, and it includes the words......
Pot, Kettle and Black!

Well thank goodness it's not just me that finds his comments appallingly rude and very discourteous to new members whom we should be welcoming to the boards! We are all novices to start with and make some very basic mistakes. I know I certainly asked what I now know to be a pretty silly question but at the time was just asking for help, not to be answered so curtly that I promptly deleted the thread and really daren't ask for help again for a long time.

Hopefully we can ALL now be nicer to new members!

Sue

I have sent Linda a PM to tell her she has had both help and support on her thread.

Seems like a few of us share the same experience from the same person.

Linda,

Do you have any death certs for your relations who died in Chester Le Street or Heworth? If these give the place of death, then it may be worth a long search for Funeral Directors in the areas although you have probably done this already.

I have just traced my Gt. Grandparents burial place in Tower Hamlets, London. One of them is buried in an area bombed during the war and as it was badly damaged, they removed the headstones grassed over and called it by its burial Plot Name, along with many others. Some fell to early decay so needed to be demolished. However, I have my Gt. Grandmother's grave to visit in another part of the same Cemetery now a woodland park next year when I visit UK.

It takes time, but you will find everyone really helpful and they make suggestions. I had to make several visits to different cemeteries before I had the right one.
Tower Hamlets also known by the name Bow Cemetery and so this could be another reason for the difficulty, but do not give up.

Good luck.

Sappho.

I am going to ignore Reggie's request and click on his name - every day for a week with the same message - obnoxious!!

You have some great search skills Reggie, why not just use them and give the pleasure of helping someone before you put them off for life. Not every one is blessed with perfection!!

By the way, this thread belongs to Linda. It is not to satisfy Reggie's attention seeking for that is all it is.

Good luck Linda.

Sappho

Oops now I've done it!!!!! ;-)

Well said Jax - there are far too many posts which make me wince when I read them and just feel so sorry for people only just starting out on this wonderful interest. What a way to encourage them - it took me a long time to recover from the most unpleasant put down I received from the same person when I first asked for help.

Sue

I don't think I come across as rude on almost every thread I post on.

How many times have we seen people say they are never going to post again after you have given them a lecture?

I have never seen you say please when you spout your orders, but you expect people to say please to you? They are not kids...were you a teacher in a past life by any chance?

I didn't report your post, I never do, as I would rather people see what is said

Edit

If you think the posters reply was abrupt, what do you think of...

"Have you done any research yourself"

Is that not abrupt?

It would have been sensible to say on here that you had googled...............that's what WE did.

You asked if there was anything online........we found sites for you. And we didn't need to..........


And, jax, I'm not the one who didn't know that P's & Q's are a good idea

I have found some fantastic information by searching newspaper archives. Local papers often give details such as who was in attendance, who floral tributes came from, and often details of close family members who have predeceased them.

Reggie why are you so rude to everyone? do you not want people to post on here?

reggie i will never post again on hear .... how have people wasted there time all they did was give me standard search engins ..... which i allready knew ,,, i didnt know you had to put all the search engins on a post that you hae searched because the list would be to long ..... they gave me no information on my request as in do searches. THANK YOU

Have you looked for/at non conformist or RC burials? They may have had their own cemeteries and records.

Aside from the possibility that there was never a headstone, you may have to consider that the stone had been taken away before a volunteer had a chance to transcribe it, and the plot reused.

Well, if you've googled and found nothing..........there IS nothing

Next time......kindly say where you've looked.......................to save people on here wasting time

And 'please' and 'thank you' wouldn't come amiss.