West Cemetery

[brownknees]

Where could I find burial lists for the West cemetary?

[Coquet]

The Cemetery workers have a small office near the entrance. A few years back I wanted to find the location of an unmarked grave from 1968. They had the register covering that burial there in the office, and they took me straight to the grave too.

I'm not sure now though what they have up there; best thing to do is contact the council clerk Elaine Brown, she might know

http://www.amble.gov.uk/contact-us/


Or If I can help I'll ask at the cemetery for you, if it's details of a single grave you want. As for a full list of burials, I don't think such a thing exists outside of the written burial registers.


I would like to see the East Cemetery burial registers transcribed. If they've gone to Woodhorn Archives then it won't be possible for me to do it due to their copying charges, (I doubt they would allow copying anyway, except by hand) but if they are still in Amble, and the holder is willing to have the pages photographed, then I'd be happy to do the transcription job, and put it online. After all my ancestors are in there in unmarked graves too.

[Coquet]

Looking at the West Cemetery page on the Town Council's website:

http://www.amble.gov.uk/responsibilities/west-cemetery/

bottom of that page, A charge is made for searching the burial records.

[janwhin]

Coquet, you mention that the transcription of the records from Woodhorn would cost too much because of copying charges.
I've copied burials from my own ancestors....if a few of us did that, could we build a database on the site that way?

[Coquet]

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.

[Coquet]

As an example of costs, but on a different subject, I would have been happy to spend a few months transcribing the entire 1918 Northumberland Absent Voters List* to place online, but the rules at Woodhorn state that the pages cannot be photographed, only photocopied on their own copier at £0.40p per page. I made a rough estimate that it would cost £800+ to do this. So all that got done was the immediate local pages for us - Amble Warkworth etc.


* Just a note about the 1918 Absent Voters List For Northumberland; it is sadly incomplete, a number of lists are lost / destroyed, including Tynemouth, which was one I particularly wanted to see as it was likely to list my great-grandfather, as I have no reference as to what unit he served in during the war. ( All I know was that he was a stretcher bearer, but that doesn’t mean he was Royal Army Medical Corps, as infantrymen could be stretcher-bearers too.)

[janwhin]

Coquet, you mentioned that you transcribed the 1918 Absent Voters list for the surrounding area. Did you have to pay Woodhorn for that?
I've now looked at the transcriptions I did for my family's Amble burials at Woodhorn. The title is "Amble Joint Burial Committee" but it doesn't seem to separate East from West cemetery burials, although this could be done roughly by date.
As an example of the info, I have, "1885 May 20 George Beverley 60 years, Radcliffe Colliery. Grave Number K87 (unconsecrated)". The only thing missing is a plan of the cemetery. (i've seen one for Warkworth at Woodhorn but haven't looked for Amble).
Can anyone out there suggest a way forward with this so we can get info onto the website? Any Town Council pressure!