CURIOS, MYSTERIES & MISCELLANEOUS

GREEN JOSEPH DANIEL (1807 – 1892) and GREEN CHARLOTTE (1806 – 1875)

BUTLER, COOK, CHOPHOUSE OWNERS. MYSTERIOUS HOUSE NAME. Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery This monument is one of those ones where additional details, such as the name of the house, grabs the attention, rather than the names of the people commemorated on the monument. Having removed this monument of its ‘overcoat’ of […]

HEADS Robert (1823 – 1869)

VICTIM OF TRAIN CRASH ON THE HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery Robert was born on the 29th December, 1823 in Byker. In the 1841 Census, Robert is recorded as living with his parents, William (A Waterman) and Jane and his brothers,  James aged 25 and a ‘Sailor’ and […]

LITTLE PITCHER, LITTLE WOMAN and GOLDEN HAIR

Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. R.J. Charleton, in his seminal series on Jesmond Old Cemetery, published in The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle in 1886, highlights the most curious monument in the cemetery, describing it thus; “It is a plain, square free-stone pedestal about four feet high. The top is flat, and on […]

ROACH John (1806 – 1865)

SERVANT, FREE MAN, CHOP HOUSE PROPRIETOR, MUCH RESPECTED GENTLEMAN IN NEWCASTLE Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. John Roach, born in Montserrat, was baptised on 11 Oct 1806 in St Michaels’, Barbados, a free Negro. John’s Baptism record from 1806. He came to England before the emancipation of slaves, which in the […]