Will you believe this ?
All from 1881 Census.
The Coombs ( page ref 5092-67-3) are Double Row at Cowpen Colliery.
This was within census sub-district 7c ( Enumerator Luke Robinson describes this area on 5092-31- in fact he describes 7a-7b-7c together.
The rows following Double Row on the census are Gas Row, Badger Row, Gas Row , Middle Row.
The Double Row of this colliery was parallel to Railway Terrace, but on other side of the railway line. Coming up from Blyth, up Marlow St, at the top, ignore the temptation of the Cowpen Colliery Inn ( now The Top House) cross the railway by the pedestrian bridge ( both line and bridge now gone). On the left would be Double Row, on the right Gas Row, with Badger Row up from the right. Today this area is covered by Bolam Avenue etc.
You can just about see this patch on the old maps on web site
communities.northumberland.gov.uk, in the Ordnance Survey maps in the Blyth section.... on 1920 25" version--- to the extrem left of the map.
Now to the Dalrymple family, as already said, were at 9 Double Row on census page 5092-67-3. Enumerator John Turnbull has made it easy for us by not just describing the sub-district- 8a- on page 5092-85, but by heading the address column on each page with "Isabella Colliery, Double Row"
So........... the two families on C1881, lived in a Double Row, but different ones !
Everyone please free to knock back this unlikely coincidence ??
Michael Dixon