Hi Jan, regarding the East Cemetery registers, I'm sure the only copies are in the hands of Amble Town Council. Back in January I asked them (the town council clerk anyway) if it would be possible to transcribe them and put them online on the 'Amble and District' website.
The reply was that the Town Council charges for lookups in the registers, and if they went online the Council would lose this revenue stream. I then offered a donation of £100 for permission to host the online transcription, and I believe the proposal was to be mentioned at the next 'Cemeteries Management Committee' meeting. That has now been and gone, so I assume the answer is no and they want to hang on to the data.
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