Quaker Burial Ground
Quaker Burial Ground
HER Number
889
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Quaker Burial Ground
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Cemetery
Site Type: Specific
Friends Burial Ground
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
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
435800
Northing
566400
Grid Reference
NZ435800566400
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
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