Durham Records Online is a great site that I came across only very recently. If you have ancestry in the northeast of England, this is well worth a look.
Some of the most recent records to be added are 130 000 burial records from Sunderland which have been transcribed and fully and can be searched for free on the site, althought viewing the records does require purchase of credits.
Durham Records Online confirms that the following records are included:
Sunderland Holy Trinity burials 1719-1812
Monkwearmouth St. Peter burials 1683 - 1919 and its successor burial ground, Mere Knolls Cemetery at Fulwell from 1856 to 1904.
Southwick Holy Trinity burials 1844 - 1988 and its successor burial ground, Marley Pots Cemetery 1884 - 1901.
Bishopwearmouth St. Michael & All Angels burials 1569 - 1856. (Most burials 1839-1856 were at Rector's Gill (aka Galley's Gill) cemetery)
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery from its opening in May 1856 to the end of 1876.
According to information from Durham Records Online, the burial records provide information on whether the person buried was a Roman Catholic until 1864. After that the nummber of burials increased, so the practice of adding this information was stopped.
Quakers and Jews were buried in designated areas of the cemetary and was one of the first cemeteries in the north east to have a separate Jewish section. For that reason, burials of Jews from all over the north east took place here.
The cemetery transcription is not yet complete but is in progress and more records will be added towards the end of 2008.
For family historians, these records are very rich in useful information - giving the address of the person buried, the names of their father, mother and children in some cases, or their husband or wife. Sometimes the professions of relatives are also included.
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