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...........Thanks for looking for the burial plot for me. I am just trying to get some idea of who my ancestors were and where they lived. Living in Stafford makes it a bit more difficult to pop up to the North East to check things out. Anyway thanks for all your help.

.........Can you please help me to locate the grave sites of my great grand parents both buried in harton cemetery I am trying to find the nos. of this grave I believe they were buried together I am in Australia so I have no means of doing it myself hoping you can help me thank you.

I would be grateful for any help you can give me as I am trying to complete my family tree kind regards.

.......I am looking for ....(Grandfather) and ... Snr.(Grandfather) and .....(Grandmother) I would like to know how the graves are, if i could get pics of them. I am Grand daughter for both sets and I live in ....(Australia) I would like to know if the graves are still standing or if they are looked after....

.....I am now living in Canada however I am originally from Shields which explains my interest in Harton Cemetery.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.

....I think I’ve found a head stone as I’m doing my family tree I would like a photo of the headstone if possible I took this information off the website and it said to contact you?

....Really appreciate what you have done (gives me idea how it looks etc., So over there where your cemetery is concerned do you still have the caretaker looking after graves? Over here (in Australia) we don't have that sort of thing relatives look after there parents’ graves, and once a week the council maintain the lawns and area where cemetery is!

....Thank you very much for the photos. It has widened the family tree somewhat and has provided extra information.

.....I have just got back from a week away to find your emails with the three images. Thank you very much for remembering and sending the pictures, I am most grateful.

....Thank you very much for sending me the two photographs so promptly.
I recognize the grave after all these years.

.....Thank you, John. It is very kind of you and the photograph will mean a lot to my mother.

I am trying to find my grandfather .......who was buried in harton cemetery around 1955 56 57 could you help i would really appreciate this.

It would be wonderful if you could send a photograph through to me. Could you also advise me what procedures would have to be followed in regard to a) the burial of ashes and b)scattering of ashes.

I understand my grandmother ..... who died, I think, 1936 and my grandfather ...... who died 1962 have a combined grave in the cemetery. I wonder if it is possible for you to confirm this together with accurate dates and grave number.

I am looking for the grave of a ...... who died in March of 1903, in South Shields. He may be in an unmarked grave and I would like to know to whom and where I might ask this question. Thanks so much.
Canada

Today, while googling, I came across your very interesting website on the Harton MI's. Thank you very much for making this resource available!

Thank you very much for help and any suggestions.
Kind regards and God bless you.
New Zealand

Thank you so much for the photo's of the gravestones of the ....... family.
It was a pleasure to receive them and so kind of you to send them - and so quickly too.
You must have sent them before I asked for them!!! - truly wonderful service!!!!
If I can be of any help at all, living in .... do not hesitate to ask.

Hi looking at your sites in the harton cemetary where so many of my family are buried i came across in section 12 ..... which i beleave to be my grand father is there any more info i can get on this grave site or photos etc and if so what will it cost thanking you...australia

I am currently researching family history and would like to find out more about my family buried in Harton cemetary. I really dont know where to start. I was wondering if you have a map of the cemetary? I understand if you do not.

....i have been in australia over forty years but so many of my family are buried in harton cemetary and my grandfather .....before he moved to .......south shields he is in harton i think in .. section.. i dont know the no. but i do know how to find it i also have .........the list goes on so i am gratefull for any info i can find and use when i come to the uk next year thanks once again .........

I'm not sure how this works. Is this service free? I am looking for .......
Thank you very much. ....Canada

......thanking you for this beautiful picture of my ancestor's headstone. ...... Canada

how would i get images from you regarding my other grand father he is buried i think in....section name of ........... they have a distinctive head stone of marbel hope i am not being to much of a pain .........
hi john thank you for the photo looks like we will have to clean up the grave whe we come over...

I would like to request a digital image of my Grandfathers gravestone........Holland

I so appreciate all the work you have done to preserve the Harton Cemetery inscriptions. My mother’s family was in South Shields for many generations but we now live in the US, so these records are particularly precious to me.

Dear John,I am writing to you from California, USA...... I was delighted to find your website and the relevant content. I found you have references to two family members......

I would very much appreciate anything that you could tell me regarding the following......

.......Harton church is beautiful, judging from the photograph on your homepage.....

Hello John Thank you very much for this excellent resource! Can you tell me if there is any additional information for the ...........please?
Kind regards and God bless you,
.........New Zealand

I have just discovered your fantastic web site. I found a couple of peripheral family members..........and would be grateful for any other info you might have on the dates of their demise!

Hi, I have just been browsing your web site and found it of great interest, could you please look up the M.I. for ......... at Harton Cemetery for me as I believe they could be in my wife's family tree. If it is them we would then be able to pay a visit and get a photograph.

Many thanks John for supplying the M.I.'s for me you have been a great help, we will be in that part of the country in the not too distant future to get some photographs and do some more research.

Hello John,Thank you very much for your wonderful website indexing Harton Cemetery. It is wonderful for those of us who live far away to be able to see the photos on the website, and then to be able to search the indexes for family members.

I look forward to the completion of your site, as I would very much like to find my Gandparents' graves. This would be of great interest and comfort to my elderly and frail mother who is feeling far from her South Shields
origins at present.

Thanks for your help - your work is bringing great pleasure to many people.
Regards,..... New Zealand

Thank you so much - your help is greatly appreciated. All the very best for
your own research and your excellent project.

DEAR JOHN,I HAVE BEEN LOOKING ON YOUR WEBSITE AND I THINK YOUR DOING A GREAT JOB. TOO MANY OF OUR GRAVEYARDS ARE BEING LOST TO DEVELOPMENT AND FORGOTTEN ABOUT. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

Hello John,I live in Toronto, Canada and I read in the Tyneside News how you are doing a wonderful job of recording the gravesites in Harton Cemetery.
My Grandfather and Grandmother are buried there and after checking your website I believe they are......

.....Could you please tell us if there is a headstone and if there is one what it says on it.
Thank you very much in advance - I live in Worcestershire and so unable visit myself.

Thank you very much for the very quick information you sent, it is much appreciated, my mum was very please when I told her the inscription.

Dear Mr. Bage I just found out today that my grandfather was buried in Harton Cemetery. I was amazed to find your website which is a valuable resource.
For all I know there may not even be a headstone but I would dearly love to find out. I am a long way away in London and you are my only hope!
I'd love to hear from you if you think you can help.
Best wishes for your future endeavours. The world needs people like you otherwise everything gets forgotten!

I have just discovered your database,...... I thank you for your considerable efforts.

I have read your sight with great interest and I would be grateful if you could look up the following for me.

Your site on the Harton Cemetery is excellent and very interesting to look at and I do thank you for your time.

Hello,I wonder if you could provide any further information on the grave of some of my mother-in-laws grandparents who are listed on your records.
This would be special as their grand-daughter is now 85 and the family were dispersed through illness and death and she knows so little about her origins.

I have found your website a fountain of information and congratulate you on your hard work
Thank you for this site, and for your help.

Hi there First of all I will just say this web site is fantastic! I am trying to trace my family tree and I am originally from South Shields.

Hello John Thank you so much for making this service available to us!
Kind regards and God bless you, New Zealand

..........many thanks in anticipation, and well done for such an amazing piece of record keeping!

Dear Mr Bage Thank you so much for your tremendous website. In younger days I spent many hours wandering Harton cemetery which I always found a beautiful and interesting place.
Whilst studying your site I came across my g.g. Grandfathers name and wonder if you could tell me what is written on the stone. Unfortunately, when I lived in Shields I didn't know this man was my ancestor and now living in London I have to do most family research long distance.

John I can't Thank You enough ! What a wonderful job you are doing and I'm sure everyone is so grateful.

Hello,What a great resource your website is! I am from the US, but will be traveling to South Shields....

Hi John Thanks for the information. It’s a shame the councils can't recognise the importance of the work being done by volunteers and how the 'outside record offices' as my sister calls them are being recorded. It’s scandalous the amount of vandalism in the cemeteries on top of the erosion. I was in Scotland last year and there is not a bit of rubbish lying around, no vandalism tolerated, and any leaning stones aren't knocked down but made safe.
Keep up the good work

Hi There I live in Sydney and am researching my family tree and wonder if you could help me with details of the following graves at Harton Cemetery....

John Fantastic information, thank you so much for your prompt reply & for working on this project which must be useful to so many people. I knew 4 of the first lot were buried together……... I would never have found the details of his death without your record of the headstone!

Hi John,You have done a great service to those with family ties to Harton.
Thank you for your wonderful listing of headstones, I'm amazed that you can provide so much effort.

I would like to say that the website you have created is fantastic for people like me when tracing our family history as it is not always possible to visit the cemeteries in question and on one visit it is possible to miss the information you are looking for.
I wish you luck in completing your website and thank you for your time and help.
Thanks to your site I have come upon the grave of my great grandparents........

I have just been into the Harton Cemetery site, and must say what a wonderful job I think you are doing.

11/05/08 I found your website for Harton Cemetery where my grandparents are buried along with their first child....Canada

28/05/08 Just one more thing.... I think it's great that you are recording this kind of valuable information which can so easily be lost. Thank you!! ......Germany

01/06/08 I came across your website on Google and it strongly looks like you could have
records of deceased members of my family.....Thailand

01/06/08 A considerate lady in the USA with whom I have been in contact recently as we both hunt (along different branches) for ....... family members, pointed me in the direction of your Harton Cemetery M.I's web page on which you list......

02/06/08 That's wonderful! Thank you so much for taking the trouble to lay out the details so precisely…….I now know exactly who they all were and can add the previously missing dates to my Family Tree. I am indeed very grateful. How kind you are to take such trouble for complete strangers......Canada

06/07/08 Well done for all your hard work in producing such an informative and accessible site.

22/07/08 Hello just a line to say what an excellent site, only found it by chance and already have found four graves which I had been unable to find before.

22/07/08 ......I would be grateful for any further information before I make a visit to the cemetery
The site is amazing so much work involved in putting together all this information

11/08/08 Many, many thanks
Not only is this the last resting place of my Grandfather but as a bonus it is also that of my Great Granparents.

15/08/08 Many thanks. It means so much to our family after so many years of unanswered questions........

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