GLASSMAKER AND CHINA MERCHANT Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. James was born in Alnwick on the 12th September 1811, the oldest of seven brothers, his parents being James Angus, born in Alnwick, and Ann nee Smith, born in Lesbury, Northumberland. James and his wife, Elizabeth, had six children in total; Ellen, […]

SHOPKEEPER SUPREME, METHODIST Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge, founder of Bainbridge’s department store, was youngest of seven children born to Cuthbert Bainbridge and Mary Muschamp (whose family had married into the Emerson’s at an earlier date). Born at Eastgate, Weardale, where his father was a yeoman farmer, he […]

SHOPKEEPER Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery

PLUMBER’S MERCHANT Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. Founder of the local firm of plumbers and paint merchants in 1855 on Clayton Street. Their current premises are prominently placed on the Coast Road. 

BREWER AND PROPERTY SPECULATOR Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. Robert, with his three younger brothers, arrived in Newcastle from Forfarshire in the 1860s and from small beginnings as an innkeeper in Newgate Street (the Chancellor’s Head) prospered to such an extent that by 1900 he owned 40 licensed houses on Tyneside, […]

CEMENT MANUFACTURER Founder of a cement manufacturing business at the Close, 1854.

OWNER OF FENWICK’S DEPARTMENT STORE Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. Born at Richmond in Yorkshire and one of 11 children, this son of a grocer attended local schools before moving to Stockton at 14 to become an apprentice draper. Aged 22 he was advised to move to Newcastle for better opportunities […]

MILLERS Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. The Freeman family were tenant farmers and corn millers in the High Heaton area of Newcastle for several decades before land development forced them away in the 1860s. However, their name is remembered locally in such names as Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road and Paddy Freeman […]

BOOKSELLER William Garret was the son of a hairdresser in the Bigg Market. He served his apprenticeship with Emerson Charnley, the noted bookseller, where he eventually became the Foreman and then General Manager of the business. Garret later set up his own business in Moseley Street, where he was accepted as a specialist on the works […]

CHAIN AND ROPE MANUFACTURER, MAYOR OF GATESHEAD Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery.

FURNITURE MANUFACTURER Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery

MARBLE MERCHANT Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery