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Northumberland and Durham Memorial Inscriptions

• 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 database contains over 6,000 references to people mentioned on gravestones and other memorials in 13 parishes in County Durham and Northumberland.

The records include:

• The location where the memorial was found, including the name of the burial ground and any information about the denomination of those interred
• The text of the inscription, preceded by a reference number
• Any comments on the type of the stone
• The title, forenames and surname of the person searched found
• The date of death, where given, in day month year format
• The age at death, where given
• The date of birth, where given, in day month year format
• The section and plot within the burial ground where appropriate
• Any further notes
• The year of birth, either estimated from the age at death or that given

Note: In some cases, each face of a memorial has been treated as a separate memorial

Coverage

The current index includes the following parishes. The number of entries and the years covered are shown for each parish. There is often more than one burial ground in a parish.

County Durham

County of Northumberland

Checking

All the data is checked against the original transcription after data entry. The data has not been rechecked against the gravestones and memorials, although the original transcription may have been checked against the original inscription.

Grouping

These records are not grouped as the full inscription is included in each entry.

Abbreviations and Codes

No specific abbreviations have been used, though some will be found in the inscriptions. Note that Quaker burial inscriptions are normally uniform within a burial ground and months are numbered, e.g. 9th Mo is September (unless before 1753?)

How to buy

The Northumberland and Durham Family History Society provide a number of census indexes, parish registers and other information in both microfiche and booklet form. Lists of these are available on their web site at: www.ndfhs.org.uk

Contact details

If you would like to report errors or possible mis-transcriptions, please contact the Northumberland and Durham FHS via their web site www.ndfhs.org.uk – but please remember that this is a transcription!

If the mason made a mistake then the mistake will remain.

Copyright and disclaimer

© Trustees of the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society.

Every care has been taken in the preparation of this Index. However, users are advised to view the original memorial, if it still exists, for additional information and to confirm for themselves interpretation of the commemoration.

The Northumberland and 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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