Thomas Jackson – Inscription

 

Birth: Unknown

 

Died: 19^th August 1862

 

Place of Death: Middleton

 

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

 

Date of Interment: 24^th August 1862

 

Burial Plot: Roman Catholic West End 30 CU (C=Plot Area. U=Unconsecrated)

 

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

 

Position along the path: Left 51

 

Inscription is  defaced, very eroded and reads with great difficulty: (Thomas Jackson of Middleton who died August 19^th 1862 aged 48 years) also of John Jackson son of Thomas & Eleanor Jackson who died (8^th) June 1857 aged 9 years

Sourced & checked with additional info added in brackets where applicable: West Hartlepool Cemetery, Purchase Graves & Inscription Transcripts, Durham Archive. Friends of North Cemetery, Book of Interment Roman Catholic West End 1856-1947 (Hartlepool Central Library) West Hartlepool Cemetery Burial Register May 1856 – July 1871, microfiche 1053 Hartlepool Central Library. (Now known as Community Hub Central)