Discover your local history
Guide No. 5
Cemeteries and
Crematoria
Discover
North Tyneside
By the mid-nineteenth century, church graveyards were beginning to pose
serious health risks due to overcrowding.
The Burial Acts of 1852 and 1853 enabled local authorities to administer
their own cemeteries. Parish vestries elected Burial Boards to manage them.
This user guide outlines the cemetery records held here which will yield
information about individual persons. Included are burial registers,
monumental inscriptions and some registers of cremations.
Preston Cemetery Crematorium
Cemetery Records
Preston Cemetery (Burial Registers)
Date
6th July 1856 – 18th December 1865
19th December 1865 – 9th December 1873
10th December 1873 – 1st March 1881
1st March 1881 – 30th December 1888
30th December 1888 – 23rd April 1896
23rd April 1896 – 12th September 1903
12th September 1903 – 7th February 1910
7th February 1910 – 27th December 1916
27th December 1916 – 29th June 1923
29th June 1923 – 9th August 1928
9th August 1928 – 12th December 1936
14th December 1936 – 13th May 1944
10th May 1944 – 22nd October 1954
27th October 1954 – 24th April 1966
30th April 1966 – 16th March 1990
19th March 1990 – 28th September 1995
Preston Cemetery Burials of Stillborn Children
Date
1st April 1935 – 13th August 1935
5th September 1935 – 13th May 1942
26th May 1942 – 27th July 1950
5th August 1950 – 2nd May 1966
3rd May 1966 – 8th February 1984
Preston Cemetery Crematorium Index
Date
1959 - 1995
Film No.
MF 1984
MF 1985
MF 1999
MF 2000
MF 2001
MF 2002
MF 2003
MF 2004
MF 2005
MF 2006
MF 2007
MF 2008
MF 2009
MF 2010
MF 2011
MF 2012
Film No.
MF 2007
MF 2008
MF 2009
MF 2010
MF 2011
Film No.
Hard copy only
Whitley Bay Cemetery Burial Registers
Date
1914 – 1945
1945 – 1995
Whitley Bay Cemetery Crematorium Index
Date
1960 – 1995
Earsdon Cemetery Burial Registers
Date
1938 – 1995
Earsdon Cemetery War Graves
Date
1940 – 1943
Film No.
MF 2027
MF 2028
Film No.
MF 2027
Film No.
MF 2030
Film No.
MF 2031
Dudley Cemetery
Date
1934 – 1995
Film No.
MF 2030
Dudley Cemetery
(Graves Register, Purchased & reserved Index)
Date
1934 – 1996
Longbenton Cemetery
Date
1936 – 1995
Wallsend Holy Cross Cemetery
Date
1918 – 1979
1979 – 1995
Wallsend Holy Cross Cemetery Index to Stillbirths
Date
1906 – 1957
Film No.
MF 2031
Film No.
MF 2031
Film No.
MF 2032
MF 2033
Film No.
MF 2037
Wallsend Church Bank Cemetery
Burial Registers - Consecrated Graves
Date
1879 – 1905 (including stillbirths)
1905 – 1911 (consecrated & general)
Burial Registers - General Graves (including stillbirths)
Date
1879 – 1887
1879 – 1905
Burial Registers - All Graves
Date
1911 – 1928
1928 – 1995
Index to Stillbirths
Date
1906 – 1976
Film No.
MF 2034
MF 2034
Film No.
MF 2034
MF 2035
Film No.
MF 2035
MF 2036
Film No.
MF 2037
Gravestones in Preston Cemetery