A beautiful day in England

Dan and Linda Hull
We had a great beginning with a lovely stoll on the beach with a light breeze and about 60 degrees. We then walked over to the Monkweermouth to the cemetery where the Morrisons were supposed to be buried. It was only a block from the hotel we are staying from so I did very good in my booking the room. We found a couple of Morrison grave sites but not the ones Linda wanted so we moved to the center of town-Sunderland to see what the records office and library had. we first had to tour the National Glass Center where they blow hand blown glass. It was beautiful and very nice. We spent the afternoon chasing down all of the names we could at the local library and we had a great deal of success. This is good training for us as we get near to the Rigby group in Liverpool area. Debbi Parker asked me for the obituary of Samuel Cottam and I was able to find it and we will go to St. Peters Church tomorrow to take pictures and look at it's cemetery, another one of her requests, so at least we accomplished some of the desires of the family. We will be doing bone chasing all day tomorrow and hopefully we will find the right ones. We are still having great fun and getting fat on the lovely restaurants here. The deserts they have here are heavenly.
We did find a memorial to the little children that died in the theatre in the 1800's here in Sunderland-183 of them suffocated when someone yelled fire and they all fell on each other down the stairs and the door was locked. Alexander Morrison, Linda's Great Grand-father jumped up into the window and started to sing and this calmed the children so that more were not killed. Sad story but a good hero and lukily he had a great singing voice for a young boy. Have a good day. Dan, Linda, Kristin(I missed spelled her name before, sorry!) and Dean.