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Cleveland, North Yorkshire and County Durham Memorial Inscription index

• Transcription and conventions used
• Coverage
• Checking
• Grouping
• Abbreviations and codes
• Contact details
• How to buy
• Copyright

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Transcription and conventions used

This is an index to the names that were found on headstones to commemorate people who died or were buried within a particular burial ground or elsewhere. This index does not include names of relations to the deceased such as father, mother, husband, wife unless they too were buried, nor details of occupation, status, residence, place of birth, etc. which are included on so many of the memorials. However, you will find noted those who died in World War I and World War II, appear on War Memorials, or died overseas. From information given on the memorials, some women have been entered under both maiden and married name.

Note: Stones indexed here may no longer be legible nor still exist.

Few memorials in the transcripts are checked against entries in the parish burial registers so these should be consulted as the inscriptions have been transcribed ‘as seen’. Due to the erosion and damage to stone surfaces, some of the information may not be accurate. This is especially true with numbers.

The index includes the following:

• Forenames - as on the memorial
• Surname - as on the memorial
• Year of death, y = years, m = months, w = weeks, d = days, h = hours, inf indicates an infant.
• Age at death, if given.
• Notes - WWI or WWII or WM = World War One or Two, or War Memorial, O/S = died or buried overseas
• Place of commemoration
• County - either Durham or North Riding of Yorkshire, both in England

These records are the transcription work over many years of a large number of local voluntary members of the Cleveland, N. Yorks & South Durham Family History Society to whom we give our thanks.

Coverage

For Northern Yorkshire the area of interest covers the region round Middlesbrough to Whitby on the east coast, across the North Yorks Moors to Thirsk then across county to the upper Dales in the west.

For Southern Durham the area of interest covers the region approximately north of Hartlepool on the North East coast across the county to Middleton in Teesdale and environs. Also the east of Stockton then following the River Tees to west of Barnard Castle.

The coverage includes the following churches, churchyards, cemeteries and burial grounds:

Checking

Very little checking has been done other than clarification of some difficult to decipher entries that were checked against the National Burial Index (NBI) or the Teesside Registration Indexes (for more recent entries).

Grouping

These records are not grouped.

Abbreviations and Codes

The following abbreviations have been used.

• Indecipherable figures or portions of names are replaced by three dots or if questionable, enclosed in brackets e.g. 18. or 18(?)9 or 18(3)9 or …LAND
• [m] [f] = male or female where no forename name is given
• inf = infant
• y = years, m = months, w = weeks, d = days, h = hours
• WWI or WWII or WM = World War One or Two, or War Memorial
• O/S = died or buried overseas

How to buy

For a copy of the full transcripts please see the Publications Listing and order either paper copy or CDs from Cleveland FHS at www.clevelandfhs.org.uk

Contact details

Visit the website of the Cleveland, N. Yorks & South Durham Family History Society at www.clevelandfhs.org.uk

Copyright and disclaimer

© Trustees of the Cleveland, N. Yorks & South Durham Family History Society.

This index should be used as a finding aid only and the advice is to refer back to the original gravestones where they still exist or to the fuller transcripts.

The Cleveland, N. Yorks & South Durham Family History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations after the searcher has viewed the memorial).

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