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Topic: Searching for Redshaw roots (Read 998 times)
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Ruskie
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(Sorry for going a bit off topic totally leics)
Thanks Michael, yes, I will have a look at the Seghill post. I vaguely remember reading something about reports of the families living in colliery housing - I wonder if it was "Our Colliery Villages" that you mention. It spoke in a fair amount of detail about the lives of the people.
It is a shame that no miner's cottages have been preserved. I imagine it would have been an interesting and educational school trip/tourist drawcard especially if a whole village and mine had also been preserved and tours could be taken (I think there is a mine is Wales? where this is possible).
It's the kind of thing I would love to visit to see how my mining ancestors lived. 
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Michael Dixon
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( ditto apologies to totally leics)
The Northumberland County Record Office shares a complex that is within the colliery yard of Woodhorn Pit, with stables, wheel house, lamp house etc.
MD
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Names.
GALLAGHER ( + variations).
Areas. Co Sligo, Co Leitrim, Co Mayo. IRELAND.
Ontario, CANADA
Lowell, Ma, USA
Counties of Northumberland & Durham, ENGLAND
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MALEY/MELIA/MALLEY - with or without " O "
Westport Co Mayo. Northumberland
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DIXON
Cumberland.. Brampton, Carlisle, ENGLAND
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totally leics
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No apologies needed folks, am finding all this background information equally interesting.
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Leics: Gibbins, White, Riddington, Peberdy, Spriggs, Monk, Tolton, Lane, Carver, Kenney, Johnson, Saddington, Benskin
Rutland: White, Walker, Rose, Snowdin
Staffs: Tuft, Westwood
Shrops:Tuft, Adams, Dunbar
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totally leics
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Hi folks,
I'm looking for a bit more info, but fortunately have more background this time. Have traced Chatham Redshaw (born Elsdon 1833) to Turkshead Yard, Alnwick with his wife Jane (born North Sunderland c1846) and family in 1881. I cannot, however, find his marriage which surprises me given his first name. Also is Turkshead Yard still in existence does anybody know? Any info gratefully received.
TL
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Leics: Gibbins, White, Riddington, Peberdy, Spriggs, Monk, Tolton, Lane, Carver, Kenney, Johnson, Saddington, Benskin
Rutland: White, Walker, Rose, Snowdin
Staffs: Tuft, Westwood
Shrops:Tuft, Adams, Dunbar
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Ruskie
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TL, Do you have Chatham in any other censuses?
Reason I ask is that I found the family in 1881 but couldn't see Chatham on the image because I read his first name as Jonathan. 
I may be completely wrong here. He is transcribed as Chatham.
Can someone else please have a look - maybe I'm seeing things. 
Oh Michael you beat me to it. 
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Ruskie
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I originally thought that 1861 marriage may have been too early, but it looks like Jane might have been a child bride.
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totally leics
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Thanks Michael and Ruskie,
Sounds like Jane was in domestic service if she was married so young and a fair way north of Sunderland, or maybe I'm just creating my own storyline here! 
Wonder how the Chatham bit got in there?Still intrigued by the 1881 address, almost sounds like a pub name.
TL
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Leics: Gibbins, White, Riddington, Peberdy, Spriggs, Monk, Tolton, Lane, Carver, Kenney, Johnson, Saddington, Benskin
Rutland: White, Walker, Rose, Snowdin
Staffs: Tuft, Westwood
Shrops:Tuft, Adams, Dunbar
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Ruskie
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Someone has mistranscribed the name Jonathan - they obviously thought they saw Chatham. Can't see it myself ...
Michael might know something about Turkshead Yard. A Google search throws very little up. My guess is that it'll be long gone ...
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Michael Dixon
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TL,
It is a Pub, look higher up the page on C1881. Bondgate was/is one of main streets of Alnwick. The Turks Head was on Bondgate. Turks Head Yard would have been a yard thru to the back of the pub, with a few residences.
Sunderland was in County Durham. Jane was born in North Sunderland, in the county of Northumberland.
I don't understand your logic about "in domestic service". Why not track her through the censuses to see !
Michael
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Names.
GALLAGHER ( + variations).
Areas. Co Sligo, Co Leitrim, Co Mayo. IRELAND.
Ontario, CANADA
Lowell, Ma, USA
Counties of Northumberland & Durham, ENGLAND
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MALEY/MELIA/MALLEY - with or without " O "
Westport Co Mayo. Northumberland
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DIXON
Cumberland.. Brampton, Carlisle, ENGLAND
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Ruskie
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TL,
I rediscovered this site last night and thought you might find something of general interest:
http://www.keystothepast.info/k2p/usp.nsf/pws/Keys+to+the+past+-+Home+Page
Moving on from Michael confirming that the Turkshead was a pub - you can often have an educated guess at where a residence was by looking at the neighbours. You can walk around the neighbourhood looking for streets and other landmarks that may still exist today and compare an old map of the area to a map of today, sometimesyou even get a birds eye view.
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totally leics
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I think I was just allowing myself a flight of fancy re the domestic service Michael, it certainly wasn't logic based I fully concede.
I seem to have located Jonathan's father Josiah as an unemployed shepherd living with his wife Ann, and again a grandchild ,this time a Sarah T Redshaw. I've got his d.o.b as 28/Sep/1808 at Falstone, but living at Harnham in 1881 which I cannot locate or maybe its getting late and I cannot see for looking. TL
PS thanks for pub info, I'm trying to learn to broaden my methodology of search.
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Leics: Gibbins, White, Riddington, Peberdy, Spriggs, Monk, Tolton, Lane, Carver, Kenney, Johnson, Saddington, Benskin
Rutland: White, Walker, Rose, Snowdin
Staffs: Tuft, Westwood
Shrops:Tuft, Adams, Dunbar
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totally leics
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Hi Ruskie,
Really must thank you for introducing me to that site, I can see myself coming back to it again and again, its very useful and interesting. Have located Harnham, it seems to have been a collection of small settlements between Capheaton and Whalton, probably still is. My lack of geographical knowledge of Northumberland is on a sharp learning curve indeed, as witnessed by my earlier confusion with North Sunderland (though in truth I've been to nearby Seahouses so can offer no real excuse!) Had retired for the night, but couldn't settle without one more try. Glad I did!
Anyway thanks again. TL
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Leics: Gibbins, White, Riddington, Peberdy, Spriggs, Monk, Tolton, Lane, Carver, Kenney, Johnson, Saddington, Benskin
Rutland: White, Walker, Rose, Snowdin
Staffs: Tuft, Westwood
Shrops:Tuft, Adams, Dunbar
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