Thomas Pearson Tate – Inscription

 

Birth: Unknown

 

Died: (7th July) 1860

 

Interred: West Hartlepool Cemetery which now forms part of North Cemetery

 

Date of interment: 10^th July 1860

 

Burial Plot: South West 92 B C (B=Plot Area. C=Consecrated)

 

Headstone: A partial headstone still exists but removed. It now lines the main upper path embedded in the tarmac

 

Position along the Path: Left 55

 

Inscription  is carved, very worn & reads with difficulty: In memory of Thomas Pearson Tate son Of Gustavus and Margarettate of Stranton who died July(7th) 1860 aged 33 years also William Tate brother of the above lost at sea October (1st  1866) aged 35 years

 

Sourced & Checked with additional info added in brackets where applicable: West Hartlepool Cemetery Purchased Graves & Inscription Transcripts Durham Archive. Friends of North Cemetery Book of Interment South West  1856 – 1871 (Hartlepool Central Library) West Hartlepool Burial Register May 1856 – July 1871 microfiche 1053 Hartlepool Central Library. (Now known as Community Hub Central)