South Shields, Quaker Burial Ground

HER Number:
889

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Quaker Burial Ground

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Inhumation Cemetery

Site Type: Specific:
Friends Burial Ground

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C17

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The Quaker Burial Ground at South Shields was situated in Robert Linton's garden. The first recorded burial was in 1673, the last in 1697. Though Phillips does not locate this cemetery, Hodgson states that Linton's house was in West Pans Way, "now Laygate Lane", and the Ordnance Survey quotes the South Shields musuem curator as saying the burial ground was situated west of the present Trinity Church in Commercial Road.

Easting:
358

Northing:
664

Grid Reference:
NZ358664

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 889 >> M. Phillips, 1894, Notes on some forgotten Burying Grounds of the Society of Friends, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVI, 202-206 Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Medieval quaker burial ground (site) G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, 97-8 M. Phillips, 1917, Additional isolated burials, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3, VII (for 1915-16), p. 179