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A family named Shevils:

As is so often the case in this area, miners feature in the Shevils family initially, although descendants became joiners and blacksmiths, but perhaps still employed at the local colliery.  

Penshaw

Also born in this area:

Edward SHEVILS,  1817

Elizabeth SHEVILS,   09 July 1810

John SHEVILS,   Abt 1833

Margaret Hunter SHEVILS,   04 June 1798

Ralph SHEVILS,   24 August 1802

Robert SHEVILS,   03 April 1805

William SHEVILS,   14 December 1807


A family named Wilkinson:

Adam WILKINSON,   1902

Beatrice WILKINSON,   1900

George Edward WILKINSON,  1909

John WILKINSON,   Abt 1905

John Andrew WILKINSON,  1907

Margaret May WILKINSON,   1910

Ruth WILKINSON,   1908


Elizabeth ADAMSON,   Abt 1836

Ralph ARMSTRONG,  1829

Mary Christina BAILEY,   1904

John T BONE,   Abt 1876

John CLOUGH,   Abt 1888

John COLLINGWOOD,   1871

John Alexander DIXON,   1902

Elizabeth GREY,   1872

Elizabeth Ann HARKNESS,   1903

Isabella HARKNESS,   1905

Susannah HARKNESS,   1909

John HEWITT,   1900

Thomas James SMITH,   1910

William SMITH,  Abt 1912

Ann THOMPSON,  Abt 1828

Jane WILLIS,   Abt 1851

Elizabeth WINSKILL,   Abt 1861


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