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Message 513 - Edith Smithyman ne Wright | alex~DOT~smithyman~AT~sky~DOT~com
would love to here from anyone who remembers my sister Audrey and I, Born in seaham fathers name Samual Wright he had a sister Maggie Macintosh and brother dick who lived at the hall lodge for many years Myself and audrey went to school in ryhope , lived with granny hannah craike formely Mordecai have cousins in ryhope and seaham , visited seaham often to see aunt ivy and uncle tom peel in Grants Crescent and magalene court , still in touch with all my cousins there
Wonderful childhood memories.
23 /July /2013----12 :14 :14 - Maltby Rotherham

Message 512 - Margaret Kent née Donnelly | Bobnmarg~AT~gmail~DOT~com
Does anyone know any Donnellys from Seaham or Deneside...
20 /July /2013----12 :50 :23 - Australia

Message 511 - Ray Curtis | raycurtis70~AT~yahoo~DOT~co~DOT~uk
Message for Ian Paul,Just read your 485 etc,My Fathers parents were also from Norfolk.What may be of interest to you is the 1871 census shows my GreatGrandfather also from Norfolk, was lodging in Back NorthrailwaySt Seaham,with his sister Hannah and her husband Charles Paul.Also there were two children Mary and Alice.Charles birth address is in Norfolk,but icannot make out the village could be Bigate?
15 /July /2013----15 :46 :45 - Seaham

Comment:   Charles was born in Bradfield, Norfolk.
Dave

Message 510 - Lisa Vickers | lisavickers1108~AT~hotmail~DOT~co~DOT~uk
Hi I am trying to find any family connections in the Easington area, if anyone knew of my father Gordon Vickers, any information would be very much appreciated.

Thank You
1 /July /2013----10 :44 :14 - Peterlee

Message 509 - Michelle Thornton | michellethornton1789~AT~gmail~DOT~com
Chris Temple

My dad passed away back in 1994 I was 7, now that I am older I want to find out more about him and family in Seaham.

Thank you so much, definitly going to look into it.

Michelle
29 /June /2013----20 :01 :13 - Peterlee

Message 508 - Chris Temple | rosemountbb~AT~btinternet~DOT~com
I knew of Geoff as a friend of my brother I knew Ian better and I went to school with Janette .I remember them both as really good guys , both were members of Seaham sub aqua club they may be able to help you more.
29 /June /2013----18 :21 :39 - Scotland

Message 507 - Michelle Thornton | michellethornton1789~AT~gmail~DOT~com
Hi i am trying to find out more about my dad Geoffrey Thornton son of Maurice and Joan Thornton, he lived at Longnewton street Dawdon Seaham, had a brother Ian now deceased and a sister Janette.
He went to Camden Square Garden School during or ending 1974.
If anyone new him or my family please contact me
29 /June /2013----11 :17 :21 - Peterlee

Message 506 - Norma Taylor | norstay~AT~googlemail~DOT~com
Wear Water Cottage, was occupied or owned by the Davison fam' 1880s
but I can't find them in 1881 census, I was told that my ancestors lived here then, it sold herbal beer & people would sail up the river in the summer, to have tea in thier gardens
25 /June /2013----23 :28 :14 - Castletown, Sundreland

Message 505 - keith | www.east-durham.co.uk/seaham/lifeboats/George%20Elmy%20returns%20to%20Seaham/index.html
george elmy gallery
25 /June /2013----02 :03 :36

Message 504 - keith
George Elmy gallery

http://www.east-durham.co.uk/seaham/lifeboats/George%20Elmy%20returns%20to%20Seaham/index.html
25 /June /2013----01 :56 :03 - seaham

Message 503 - Lucy | luc176~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
Today is the day for George Elmy to come home .He should arrive sometime between 12 noon and 2pm
23 /June /2013----09 :20 :24 - Seaham

Message 502 - Lucy | luc176~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
Weather permitting The George Elmy Lifeboat will sail into Seaham on June23rd 2013 between 12 noon and 2 pm. If weather not good then it will sail the following week on the 30th June
7 /June /2013----07 :28 :14 - Seaham

Message 501 - Joanne Galley | jogalley57~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
Hi I've just come across your site. I am trying to trace my fathers (Galley) maternal side of the family (Early), they lived at 12 Railway Terrace, Hetton le Hole at the 1911 census. Have old post card photos but putting dates to some of them is difficult, wondered if it would be worth putting on the site? My great grandfather James Early worked in the colliery, my grandmother Winifred looks to be about 3 so it must be around 1899. Other photos maybe 1920's?
2 /June /2013----08 :12 :57 - Adelaide South Australia

Comment:   Hello Joanne, sorry I missed your post back in June, I can't help with your Hetton ancestors but maybe someone from the area will contact you.
Re your postcards and photographs, any scans would be very welcome and could maybe turn up some info for you.
Thanks, Dave

Message 500 - Eric Braley | ricebarley1~AT~bigpond~DOT~com
WOW! What a great website and so many memories of the Lifeboat disaster. I was admitted to Seaham Hall Hospital about mid day with a spontaneous pneumothorax (collapsed lung) after leaving my ship in an emergency in Manchester the day before to travel home to Sunderland by myself. Although I was in poor shape and barely conscious I vividly remember the rockets lighting up the dark afternoon sky and all hell breaking loose at the hospital as the staff and local patients realised that maybe their friends and kin were in terrible strife on a foul and unforgettable day. I was at the hospital for about 3 weeks after emergency surgery that evening. Thankfully I made a full recovery all due to the wonderful devoted and talented staff. I have lived in Australia for the past 45 years but still think of that terrible day and am very pleased to have found this site so I can see what really happened.
1 /June /2013----06 :50 :15 - Drysdale Victoria Australia

Message 499 - Simon Chapman | simon~DOT~chapman1~AT~ntlworld~DOT~com
Please check your captions of Dalton/North Dalton pumping stations. These were two separate places only a short distance apart but the captions are mixed up. Dalton is the big Victorian station currently in a slow process of repair and part-conversion to housing. North Dalton is of much later date and still in use as a water pumping station.
29 /May /2013----21 :13 :21 - Cleveland

Comment:   Thanks Simon, I apologise for caption errors, these were pointed out to me over a year ago by Stafford Linsley along with all necessary corrections.
Unfortunately I struggle to find time
these days but I will get around to the corrections eventually. Dave

Message 498 - Ray Curtis | raycurtis70~AT~yahoo~DOT~co~DOT~uk
For Lucy Young, Idont know if it helps but the houses where demolished about 1933-35.
17 /May /2013----15 :30 :24 - seaham

Message 497 - Ray Curtis | raycurtis70~AT~yahoo~DOT~co~DOT~uk
For Lucy,There was a William St. which ran from Henry St to Back North Trrace.The street was demolished and replaced by the Hawthorn Square development.Maybe this is what you want.
17 /May /2013----14 :09 :42 - Seaham

Message 496 - Lucy Young | lucyoung~AT~msn~DOT~com
Hi I'm look for a Street with the address 29 William St Seaham Harbour County
It's not on google maps, I am just wondering if it changed or has gone?
16 /May /2013----20 :18 :09 - Derbyshire

Comment:   In the Seaham section scroll down to Streets then choose Central Area Index 1928 when page opens click on the photograph that is shown and when it opens look for No 14 that is William street
Lucy Taylor

Message 495 - Lucy | luc176~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
Gloria Cubillo
This site is a History Site mainly for the East Durham region of the UK therefore I have deleted your post. Although I did not understand most of what you wrote there seemed to be some kind of Advertising within and we do not allow Advertsing of any sort here in the Guestbook
1 /May /2013----07 :33 :11 - Seaham

Message 494 - bob harrison | rwharrison~AT~fsmail~DOT~net
trying to access the Guestbook.
22 /April /2013----20 :02 :32 - East Sussex

Message 493 - Su Thompson | sujata~DOT~thompson~AT~gmail~DOT~com
In request to post 382 dated 15th August 2011, Julie Hall.

I too am researching Bilko Charles Schmiechin, in relation to
Olive Leon Schmiechin who was my husbands grandmother!
All I know so far is information that is online and that at the age of 70
he witnessed Olive's marriage to John Thompson in 1920. Are we related? John Thompsons son, known as Jack is my father-in-law.
5 /April /2013----13 :31 :42 - Northamptonshire

Message 492 - Elizabeth (Liz) Maddock | lizmaddock~AT~yahoo~DOT~co~DOT~uk
I am giving it another go - trying to sort out my late family.

This is what I think - but I could be confused.

I believe that Bolko Schmiechen was my great grandfather - although I think there were two, one being a son.

His daughter Lucy Ruth (again two in different generations) married William Clark, I think it was a second marriage, and they had a daughter,May, who was my mother.

I think they lived in the Barras Bridge pub/hotel at the time in Newcastle.

I remember visiting great-aunts (hers or mine?) in Whitley Bay called Elizabeth and Bertha.

If you could help me at all I would be grateful, my mother refused to talk about her parents but said that they
were both dead when she was quite young (teens - twenties?).
4 /April /2013----13 :13 :54 - Seville, Spain

Message 491 - Ann Hansen nee Pike | annmackem~AT~optusnet~DOT~com~DOT~au
My final attempt to try and find an old friend called David Stevenson who lived in no 30 The Avenue Deneside, in the 1950s. We were a group of friends all at a Sunday School camp in Marske, Yorkshire about 1952. I have tried for so long to find him, no one even seems to remember him and he must have gone to Deneside School. Hope this is my lucky last time as Ive been trying to find out about him for about 4 years without any luck.
12 /March /2013----04 :32 :13 - Banora Point 2486 Australia

Comment:   I have asked around again but got no response. Sorry Ann but no one on my lists seems to know of him.Lucy

Message 490 - lilian jane | lilianjane~AT~live~DOT~co~DOT~uk
looking for anyone who knows me from school sms my maiden name was bell
11 /March /2013----11 :03 :15 - seaham

Message 489 - Seaham Facebook Page | seahamonline~AT~gmail~DOT~com
Love the pictures that you have on here, any chance you could donate some to the Seaham facebook page or you could even contribute them to the site yourself
5 /March /2013----20 :43 :12 - Seaham

Message 488 - Eleanor Swinburn | swinny05~AT~gmail~DOT~com
What a great site, my Great Grandmother, Eleanor Adamson was born South Shields 1840/41. I just love all the photos, to be able to see Photos of places that come up in my research is awesome, as living in Western Australia, I do not know the areas.
My dad Thomas Swinburn came to Western Australia 1923 , he was born Chester-le Street 1897
.Keep up the good work
3 /March /2013----02 :16 :48 - Australia

Message 487 - Fred Addison | banjofred~AT~msn~DOT~com
Excellent.

My family are all from Sunderland - fathers side Monkwearmouth for hundreds of years (and Seaham), mothers side Silksworth.

I am building up my family tree on ancestry (free access look up banjofred11) with pictures of the area and family stories. This site is great.
2 /March /2013----07 :12 :18 - Washington

Message 486 - Mick Mann | mick~DOT~mann~AT~btopenworld~DOT~com
Just spotted a message after getting back to "normal" from a stroke,
I am not sure if I have had any previous contact with Julie Hall ( Message No 382), but my wife is also Bolko Schmiechen's ggg grand-daughter
24 /February /2013----15 :31 :37 - Maidstone Kent

Message 485 - Steve Cooper | qkayaksoz~AT~gmail~DOT~com
Great work guys, hats off to all the volunteers, the work you have done so far could not have been done without your commitment.

Cheers Steve
15 /February /2013----02 :32 :39 - Sidenee Oztralia

Message 484 - Richard Hinchliffe | hinchliffe84~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
A group called Seaham Business and Resident Link now exisits on LinkedIn and we are having our inaugural meeting at Tonia's on the 1st march at 1300. All budding histroians are welcome as there will be some interesting old artifacts and postcards of seaham for sale. Also, there will be an opportunity to hear from some business experts about how to improve the town. Dave Angus - you are welcome as a historian and as a butcher.
1 /February /2013----12 :19 :54 - Farnborough

Message 483 - Sarah Parish | sarah_parish~AT~sky~DOT~com
Have just come across your wonderful site! Having researched my family tree for some time now, my maternal side originate from Seaham. Can't wait to look at the site in more depth, well done on your hard work!
Kind regards,

Sarah Parish (related to Phalp family)
27 /January /2013----23 :40 :53 - Taunton, Somerset

Message 482 - ROBERT HARRISON | rwharrison~AT~fsmail~DOT~net
Does anyone know why its so difficult to get in touch with ex pupils of Seaham Modern School. Have tried friends re-united and no luck with tracing the old school.I left school in '64 and spent 5years working as an apprentice Hairdresser in Adelaide Row.I look for to renewing old friendships.
21 /January /2013----20 :46 :14 - TUNBRIDGE WELLS KENT.

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Message 481 - keith | stiff_knees~AT~hotmail~DOT~co~DOT~uk
testing auto email function
21 /January /2013----10 :50 :17 - house

Message 480 - keith | stiff_knees~AT~hotmail~DOT~co~DOT~uk
The email system seems to be workin now.after many hours trying different settings
20 /January /2013----18 :40 :21 - in front of pc

Message 479 - Dave
x
20 /January /2013----18 :12 :01

Message 478 - Lucy | luc176~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
MMMM
20 /January /2013----11 :58 :13 - Seaham

Message 477 - Adam Mills | millzy_adam~AT~hotmail~DOT~co~DOT~uk
Hello, I was just wondering if it would be possible if you could provide me with copies of a number of your photographs, without the east-durham.co.uk water mark so that I could use them in a university project. Any help would be beneficial. Thankyou.
17 /January /2013----11 :48 :04 - Seaham

Message 476 - Brian Scollen | bscollen~AT~yahoo~DOT~com
Hi Deborah, Have a look at Murton Heritage Site. If you get intouch with them I am sure that they will help you as much as possible. Best Regards Brian
16 /January /2013----21 :32 :59 - Seaham

Message 475 - Deborah Oakley | deboakley1~AT~gmail~DOT~com
My grandfather, Stephen Oakley, emigrated to Marion Illinois from Murton probably around 1907. He was a miner who died shortly before my father, James Stephen Oakley, was born in 1909. I hope to visit Murton next summer while in GB for my daughter's wedding.

Family members once lived 22 Owen (Gwen?) Street. Any Oakleys out there?
15 /January /2013----20 :37 :42 - Houston, Texas

Message 474 - lucy | luc176~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
Happy New Year to one and all. Wishing you All the best of Health and Happiness in 2013
31 /December /2012----22 :28 :03 - Seaham

Message 473 - Maureen
Happy New Year Everyone
31 /December /2012----19 :41 :30

Message 472 - Maureen | mollybell~AT~live~DOT~co~DOT~uk
Merry Christmas everyone
22 /December /2012----21 :08 :18 - Great Yarmouth

Message 471 - Lucy | luc176~AT~hotmail~DOT~com
I would like to wish all Members and Guests a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy 2013
19 /December /2012----12 :39 :04 - Seaham

Message 470 - Brian Slee | brian~DOT~slee1~AT~btinternet~DOT~com
Re Message 453 - Dennis Pallister re Jack Walls

Hello Dennis, delayed reply but only recently read your query. I have asked but those I contacted cannot advise me of Jack's whereabouts.
I remember Jacques going to the Vane Arms with John Lewis (French/German master) Mr Jansz (classics) his young son and myself and my dad. I was asked I think by John Lewis if my dad would arrange a tour of the docks. This he did and apart from looking around the docks and viewing the Londonderry Offices where Mr Jansz translated the Latin motto. We then went to the Vane Arms where Jack briefly joined us. As far as I remember they all enjoyed the tour. Sorry I can't be more help. Brian Slee
19 /November /2012----02 :03 :42 - Seaham

Message 469 - Denis Todd | denis~DOT~todd~AT~live~DOT~com
I was there
25 /October /2012----21 :19 :57 - Harrogate

Message 468 - Les Steele | lessteele~AT~btinternet~DOT~com
Re Message 494 comments

I belive it is Hindmarsh but could be wrong. DOB abt 1862 He married my GGM in 1909 in Tynemouth. She was married to Robert Covell who died around 1902. Her maden name was Heslop. I dont think they had children but the children from the previous marrage all lived with them. One of them Mary Jane Covel was my GM.

Thanks

Les
25 /October /2012----10 :13 :51 - Berkshire

Message 467 - Les Steele | lessteele~AT~btinternet~DOT~com
Looking for any ref to the Hindmarsh family living in Murton in 1911. Living at Hedlys Buildings. Robert Hindmarsh was a miner.

Thanks

Les
23 /October /2012----16 :41 :53 - berkshire

Comment:   Is it Hindmarsh or Hindmarch you are looking for as I have ancestors Robert Hindmarch born 1842 in Sunderland who was a brother to Thomas Hindmarch born 1853 who married a Jane Burrell and they had a son named Robert born in 1891

Message 466 - Joe Knox | joeknox1945~AT~talktalk~DOT~net
Trying to find out if my great grandfather called ADAMSON was harbourmaster at Seaham harbour after moving from Bruges maybe around 1850- 1890
23 /October /2012----09 :10 :28 - Newcastle upon Tyne

Comment:   Joe, I can find a John Adamson, Master Mariner in 1902 and 1910.
Also Harbour Master, Lloyds Sub Agent, Pilot Master and local secretary of RNLI from 1914-1929.
Dave

Message 465 - Wallace Johnson | diggerveg~AT~hotmail~DOT~co~DOT~uk
Any one put me in touch with Tom Moreland or Tom Leighton from the wide back in Dawdon not seen them since the mid 60s thank you

from WALLY JAY
16 /October /2012----15 :02 :06 - Burton Latimer Northants

Message 464 - Wallace Johnson | diggerveg~AT~hotmail~DOT~co~DOT~uk
Any one put me in touch with Tom Moreland or Tom Leighton from the wide back in Dawdon not seen them since the mid 60s thank you
16 /October /2012----14 :59 :54 - Burton Latimer Northants

Message 463 - Julie Regan | julieanne~DOT~regan~AT~bigpond~DOT~com
I am doing some family history for some people who visited the Inverell District Family History Group two weeks ago. They were looking for William and Florence Boland , they named their property in Inverell Seaton. He was born in Seahan Harbour, she in Leyburn Yorkshire. Doi you have any information about this family? They would ghave migrated in the 1900's to Australia.

Julie Regan
11 /October /2012----02 :34 :20 - Inverell NSW Australia

Message 462 - Keith Savage | keithelaine31~AT~yahoo~DOT~com
please can some one help with my quest,
my mate im working with is called Gordon Chapman, Chappy.
he used to work at Seaham mine to locals it was called the Nack pit
then he transferd to the Vane Tempest mine when it shut down,
we would like to no what the seam names, and the district names where from 1980 at Seaham mine-the nack
your help would be much appreciated.
10 /October /2012----15 :33 :11 - Seaham

Message 461 - Les Alexander | Les208~AT~ntlworld~DOT~com
Re-message 479:
I visited the Murray household every Sunday morning in the mid-forties for violin lessons. The two brothers Jack and Bob Murray lived there and I remember they had a tame Jackdaw which played havoc during my violin lessons, sitting on my head or shoulders: great fun.
25 /September /2012----10 :19 :54 - Billingham TS23 2AA

Message 460 - Harry Davison | hpdavison~AT~sky~DOT~com
Any information on NSCC which I think is a cycling club which was going in 1896 and Londonderry cycling club which was active in 1904. I have a medal and a watch which were given to George Spence for services to both.
24 /September /2012----07 :56 :00 - cheam surrey

Message 459 - Ian Paul | paulycats~AT~talktalk~DOT~net
Thanks to Len (Charlton),Graeme(Lacey)and M.(Howarth) for your replies.The idea of families travelling to Seaham on a ship certainly makes sense.I would like to find the reason why the agricultural economy collapsed.We know the Irish had the desperate potato famine ,and the resultant exodus to all points worldwide (including Seaham).
The mine owners agents strike a resemblance to the military and their call to take up "the king's shilling"! Many thanks.
23 /September /2012----20 :28 :15 - Seaham

Message 458 - M Howarth | margehowarth~AT~aol~DOT~com
Yes I think you are right Graeme my grandfather and other members of his family came from Flintshire to seek work in the mines
23 /September /2012----15 :39 :42 - Seaham

Message 457 - Graeme Lacey | graeme~DOT~lacey~AT~btopenworld~DOT~com
Message for Ian Paul.My great grand father came to the NE from Norfolk too. There was widespread unemployment in agriculture in Norfolk and the fact that NE coal mine owners agents travelled around the country recruiting coal miners may have been a factor in the movement from Norfolk to the NE in the 1870s.
23 /September /2012----06 :42 :07 - North Yorkshire

Message 456 - Len Charlton | wlcharlton~AT~talktalk~DOT~net
Re Ian Pauls query. Ships traded continually between East coast ports in those days and took many passengers at far less cost than lengthy road travel. North East colliers would carry news of available jobs and wage levels as well coal to many small ports. Perhaps making berths available as well w
22 /September /2012----21 :19 :28 - Abingdon

Message 455 - Ian Paul | paulycats~AT~talktalk~DOT~net
Researching my family history has thrown up a few questions that someone may be able to answer?
My father's family came from Norfolk in the very early 19th century to find work in the North East (Durham and Northumberland coalfields)
How did they accomplish their long journey at a time of very limited travel options?Did they have promise of work and accomodation?As farmer's/farm labourer's,where did they find the money to move?From hard toil ABOVE GROUND,the transistion to underground work must have been frightning? Was this the desperation to earn more money?
Can anyone suggest a book that might answer some of these questions?
Finally i would like to nominate Tom McNee as the best teacher to have taught in Seaham (Deneside junior and infants) The man was a legend.A Gentleman.A Proud Scotsman,and of course a Sunderland supporter!!
20 /September /2012----22 :37 :23 - Seaham

Message 454 - Paul Thompson | merlin6396~AT~gmail~DOT~com
Why do you watermark all the photo's and spoil them, your only supposed to watermark pictures you own the rights to.
16 /September /2012----19 :27 :12 - Seaham

Comment:   The photographs that are watermarked are owned by the person who posted them and there are lots of photographs that are not watermarked if you are interested in having a copy of any photgraph that is watermarked please get in touch with the owner of the site

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