Tyne and Wear HER(1597): Ouseburn, Ballast Hills Graveyard
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Description
"Ballast Hills Graveyard was the most important non-conformist burial ground in Newcastle. The origins of the burial ground lay in the influx of foreign and Scottish families into the area in the early and mid 17th century. Many European Protestants settled in the St. Lawrence area of Newcastle, and using materials from the ballast heaps, established glasshouses. Many of these immigrants adopted Quakerism. Further, many Scotsmen also came into Newcastle in the 17th century and 18th century, and being Presbyterians, they too did not wish to bury their dead in Anglican burial grounds. This was also the case with Baptists, Independents and Methodists in the latter half of the 18th century...." -
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
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