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Pittington Civil Parish

Reference: CP/Pi Catalogue Title: Pittington Civil Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: Burial Board, burials

Covering Dates: 1860-1991

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  • Pittington Civil Parish
    • Burial Board, burials (Ref: CP/Pi )
    • Minutes (Ref: CP/Pi section 1)
    • Registers of burials (Ref: CP/Pi section 2)
    • Grants of right of burial (Ref: CP/Pi section 3)
    • Notices of Interment in Hallgarth Cemetery (Ref: CP/Pi section 4)
    • Plan of Hallgarth Cemetery (Ref: CP/Pi section 5)
    • Boundaries (Ref: CP/Pi section 6)
    • Financial records (Ref: CP/Pi section 7)
    • Regulations (Ref: CP/Pi section 8)
    • Employees (Ref: CP/Pi section 9)
    • Pittington, St Laurence churchyard (Ref: CP/Pi section 10)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: CP/Pi section 11)

Catalogue Contents

Burial Board, burials (Ref: CP/Pi )Minutes (Ref: CP/Pi section 1)

6-7

Ref: CP/Pi 6

Minutes of Burial Board, 1860 - 1897
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 7

Minutes of Burial Joint Committee, 1901 - 1921
(1 volume)

Registers of burials (Ref: CP/Pi section 2)

17, 26-28

Ref: CP/Pi 17

Record of burials, 1892 - 1900
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 26

Register of burials, 1897 - 1920
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 27

Register of burials, 1899 - 1934
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 28

Register of burials, 1923 - 1955
(1 volume)

Grants of right of burial (Ref: CP/Pi section 3)

18-25, 115-117

Ref: CP/Pi 18

Grant of burial, 1923 - 1931
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 19

Grant of burial, 1931 - 1936
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 20

Grant of burial, 1936 - 1938
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 21

Grant of burial, 1938 - 1941
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 22

Grant of burial, 1941 - 1944
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 23

Grant of burial, 1945 - 1947
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 24

Grant of burial, 1947 - 1951
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 25

Grant of burial, 1951 - 1955
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 115

Grants of right of burial, 5 January 1955 - 6 January 1960
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: CP/Pi 116

Grants of right of burial, 6 January 1960 - 20 May 1964
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: CP/Pi 117

Grants of right of burial, 8 July 1964 - 20 September 1971
(1 volume, card bound)

Notices of Interment in Hallgarth Cemetery (Ref: CP/Pi section 4)

Details given include: name, age and occupation of the deceased; place and date of death; date of burial and name of officating minister; details of grave, sometimes including grave number.

155/1-24

Ref: CP/Pi 155/1

Notice of interment of James Blackburn, aged 73, died 22 September 1962
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/2

Notice of interment of Elizabeth Carter, aged 65, died 2 October 1962
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/3

Notice of interment of Anthony Smith, aged 73, 21 OCtober 1962
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/4

Notice of interment of Margaret Ellen Heaton, aged 90, 31 October 1962
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/5

Notice of interment of Barbara Barrow, aged 77, died 4 November 1962
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/6

Notice of interment of Robert Birkett, aged 81, died 13 November 1962
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/7

Notice of interment of John Cecil Brown, aged 70, died 1 January 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/8

Notice of interment of Sarah Hall, aged 66, died 9 January 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/9

Notice of interment of Mary Ann Barnfather, aged 84, died 23 January 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/10

Notice of interment of of Thomas Jones, aged 86, died 1 February 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/11

Notice of interment of Margaret Watson, aged 81, died 20 March 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/12

Notice of interment of Wilfred Nelson, aged 55, died, 22 March 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/13

Notice of interment of Maria P. Makepeace, aged 89, died 28 April 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/14

Notice of interment of Daglish Briggs, aged 74, died 14 April 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/15

Notice of interment of Colin Anthony Parkinson, aged 7 weeks, died 15 July 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/16

Notice of interment of Hannah Hall, aged 91, died 18 July 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/17

Notice of interment of Mary Elizabeth Crone, aged 79, died [c. 10 August 1963]
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/18

Notice of interment of John George Burt, aged 73, died 10 August 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/19

Notice of interment of David Morrow, aged 81, died 12 September 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/20

Notice of interment of William Bowes, aged 60, died 5 October 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/21

Notice of interment of Ann Heslop, aged 70, died 21 October 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/22

Notice of interment of James Kirby, aged 80, died 5 November 1963
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/23

Notice of interment of Sidney George Raine, aged 7 weeks, died [c. 1963]
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: CP/Pi 155/24

Notice of interment of Thomas William Williams, aged 83, died 23 February 1964
(1 paper, printed)

Plan of Hallgarth Cemetery (Ref: CP/Pi section 5)

160

Ref: CP/Pi 160

Plan of Hallgarth Cemetery, n.d. [late nineteenth century]
(1 plan, 147cm x 101cm, waxed linen)

Boundaries (Ref: CP/Pi section 6)

150

Ref: CP/Pi/150

Order by Clerk of the County Council for the alteration of boundaries for Belmont and Pittington Joint Burial District, 23 August 1921
(1 paper)

Financial records (Ref: CP/Pi section 7)

13-14, 114, 118, 151

Ref: CP/Pi 13

Burial Account book, 1897 - 1908
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 14

Fee book - Burial Board, 1919 - 1923
(1 volume)

Ref: CP/Pi 114

Burial account, 1 April 1954 - 31 March 1964
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: CP/Pi 118

Record of the receipt of Burial Fees, 20 September 1956 - 1 June 1991
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: CP/Pi 151

Poster of table of fees for burials in the parish of Pittington, 7 August 1945
(1 paper)

Regulations (Ref: CP/Pi section 8)

85-86, 112

Ref: CP/Pi 85

Rules and regulations of Pittington Burial Ground, 1936
(1 booklet)

Ref: CP/Pi 86

Regulations concerning the management of the burial ground at Hallgarth, Pittington, 1945
(1 booklet)

Ref: CP/Pi 112

'Regulations made by the Parish Council of Pittington acting as the Burial Board with respect to the management of the Burial Ground at Hallgarth, Pittington, and Table of Fees and Payments', 15 November 1945
(1 booklet)

Employees (Ref: CP/Pi section 9)

89, 113

Ref: CP/Pi 89

Note of the duties of the cemetery attendant as authorised at a meeting of Pittington Parish Council, 3 October 1951
(1 paper)

Ref: CP/Pi 113

Cemetery wages book, 1952 - 1964
(1 volume, card bound)

Pittington, St Laurence churchyard (Ref: CP/Pi section 10)

83, 147-149

Ref: CP/Pi 83

Plan of the proposed extension to the graveyard at the church of Pittington St. Laurence, 24 September 1925
(1 plan, 26cm x 33cm. waxed linen)

Ref: CP/Pi 147

6 April 1927 (1) David Glen of Jarrow-on-Tyne, builders contractor (2) The Parish Council of the Parish of Pittington in the County of Durham Agreement that (1)will sell to (2) property specified in the plan, for an extension of the graveyard
(1 file)

Ref: CP/Pi 148

12 July 1928 (1) Digby Nelson of Sunderland, slate merchant (2) David Glen of Jarrow, builder and contractor (3) Parish Council of Pittington Conveyance by (2)to (3), with the agreement of (1) of the property specified in CP Pi 147 Consideration: £175 to (1) in payment of the mortgage agreement between (1) and (2)
(1 file)

Ref: CP/Pi 149

Plan of the proposed extension to the graveyard at Pittington, St. Laurence Endorsed that it 'is the plan referred to in the instrument of the Minister of Health of the date hereof as being annexed thereto', 8 February 1928
(1 plan, 25cm x 32cm, waxed linen)

Miscellaneous (Ref: CP/Pi section 11)

90

Ref: CP/Pi 90

Letter from the Rev. A.W. Allen, Hallgarth Vicarage, Pittington, to T.W. Booth, Secretary to Pittington Parish Council, concerning the surfacing of Cemetery Road, 3 January 1955
(1 paper)



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