South Shields St Hilda

Parish Notes Durham

South Shields St Hilda

[Population 1911: 4,346]

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Church

The church of St. Hilda is a plain stone oblong building, and, with the exception of the square tower, was nearly all rebuilt in 1810-11 on the site of the old church: it has an apse, in which there are three stained glass windows, by Clayton and Bell, Baguley and Wailes, and a gallery extending round the north and south sides and west end of the church, with sittings for 1,800 persons, which are all free: in 1871 the old high pews were removed, and replaced by open sittings, at a cost of about £1,200. The register dates from the year 1683. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £500, with good residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and held by the Rev. Thomas Henry Chester, M.A., of University College, Durham.

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Non-Parochial Records

SOF burials at South Shields in Robert Linton's Garden
from Archaelogia Aeliana Vol. XVI i (new series) 1894.

Year  Day  Mo.  Name
1673   6    2   Mary Fearon daughter of Thomas Fearon of South Shields
                was buried in Robert Linton's Garden
1674  28   10   Martha daughter of Thomas Fearon
1674   7    9   Margaret Wife of James Smith of South Shields
1684   1    3   Mary Harrison of Blackwell Co. Durham
1684            Elizabeth Lisle daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Lisle
1688  20   10   Anthony Wynd of South Shields
1695  14    1   Thomas Chandler of South Shields
1695   6        Timothy Frost son of John and Dorothy Frost
1697  20    8   Ann Chandler of South Shields

Berwick Advertiser 20/2/1813 A boy about eight years of age, who had been kidnapped from South Shields in December, was found a few days since in the possession of T. Hastings, a chimney-sweep in Glasgow, who will be tried before the Circuit Court. The prisoner's wife decoyed the boy from his home.

Newcastle Courant 29/6/1833 [marriage] The 20th inst. at South Shields, Mr Robert Pigg, mariner, to Miss Margaret Whale, both of that place.

Newcastle Courant 20/4/1838 NOTICE is hereby given, that I WILLIAM YELLOWLY, of the Market Place, South Shields, will not be answerable for any Debt or Debts that my Wife, JANE YELLOWLY, may contract after this Notice. And all Persons having any Claim against me, are desired forthwith to render an Account of the same; and all Debts due to me will be thankfully received. WILLIAM YELLOWLY. Market Place, South Shields, April 19, 1838.

Port of Tyne Pilot 18/5/1839 A worthy dame at South Shields, who states that she is 102 years old, has sent us an account of the way in which she expends her weekly allowance from the Poor Law Guardians of that town, and at the same time she begs to thank them for the kindness they have manifested towards her. The sum allowed her is 2s 9d per week, which she apportions in the following manner:- rent, 11¾d.; coals, 5½d.; bread, 6d.; coffee, 3d.; sugar, 3¼d.; milk, 1¾d.; tobacco, 1¾d.; total 2s 9d. We admire the old lady's economy, and we hope she has something more to live upon than what the guardians afford her. She is apparently blessed with contentment, and that, according to some, is but another name for happiness.

Newcastle Courant 20/10/1843 Mr James Bell, secretary to the anti-corn-law-league, South Shields, met with Kidd, the chartist lecturer, in the market place, in that town, on Tuesday evening, last, the 17th inst., and gave him a horse whipping, for, it is said, his having very disrespectfully spoken of Mr B. the previous day, at the public meeting, convened for the hearing of Mr O'Connor's address.

Newcastle Courant 28/8/1857 The Rev. John Story, Minister of St John's Presbyterian Church, South Shields, has resigned. He will proceed to take charge of a church in Australia.

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Monumental Inscriptions

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