Amble East Cemetery

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As expected for a coastal cemetery, there are a number of burials for people either drowned in the harbour or washed ashore from wrecks. Some of these are identified in the comments in the burial register. Here's one:

Edward Johnson, aged 19 of Ryhope Colliery buried on 5 February 1902 "cast up by the sea at Bondicar"

An inquest was reported in the Sunderland Daily Echo of 6 February. Thomas Stewart, a Hauxley fisherman, found the body in a boat, identified as from the Eglinton of Glasgow, on 2 February, at Bondicar Burn.

His mother, Mary Ann Johnson, the wife of miner William of 47 Curry Street, Ryhope, identified the body as her son. He was an Able bodied Seaman of the SS Eglinton, bound for Inverness from Sunderland with a cargo of coal.