9,097 burials at South Shields St. Hilda’s covering 1820-1840. Residences mentioned (besides street addresses in South Shields) include Academy Hill, Archers Hill, Bank Top, Barnes, Bent House, Bishopwearmouth, Black Lion Quay, Bottle Bank, Bottle Hill, Deans, East Holborn, Harton, Howdon, Jarrow, Newcastle, North Shields, Simonside, Templetown, West Holborn, and Westoe.
Sample burials, starting with the 3 oldest people in this set and including the cholera epidemic of 1832 (which claimed 309 people according to this register) and the pit explosion in 1839:
- 05 Mar 1824 John Thompson, of Stobb Lane, South Shields, age: 109
- 25 Mar 1821 Hannah Marshall, of Heugh Street, South Shields, age: 103
- 30 Dec 1821 Ann Sympson, of West Holborn, South Shields, age: 100
- 19 Aug 1832 Thomas Laidler, of Bottle Hill, age: 92, Cholera
- 22 Mar 1832 Charles Goodwin, of Fairles St, age: 26, Cholera
- 30 Jun 1839 Thomas Elstob, of Temple Town, age: 9, [one of] 25 pitmen killed in St Hilda’s pit by explosion on the 28th inst
- 12 Aug 1838 William Hogg, of Black Lion Quay, age: 15, native of Kent
- 03 Jan 1821 J. J. Vanderveen, age: 48, a mariner from Holland, died on board a ship in the river
A detailed description of the St. Hilda pit explosion on 28 June 1839 can be found in newspaper accounts at the Durham Mining Museum’s site here: