12, Hill Top, Kyo, Lanchester, Durham

[Elliven]

tab11.  Hill Top at Flint Hill (as mentioned by barryd)is where I live and there is no street of that name here now.  There were many isolated groups of buildings and small streets but none that I am aware of that were actually named Hill Top - which is actually a small district in the large village of Dipton.  Much of the original hamlet of Hill Top was pulled down in the 1960s

[stanmapstone]

Thanks Everyone,

The last census date the address is mentioned is 1891..

Can you give the census details?

Stan

[Elliven]

If it was on the 1891 Census, it will be on stanmapstone's map on the left hand side.  Some of that is still there but none of that was a street name Hill Top - it is just the general area and the number 12 is probably just the 12th entry on the corresponding Census return.  A surname would help to identify which building it refers to (three of those buildings were pubs!)

[tab11]

Yes, thanks, their surname was SMITH... I know, not much use

[stanmapstone]

it is just the general area and the number 12 is probably just the 12th entry on the corresponding Census return.  A surname would help to identify which building it refers to (three of those buildings were pubs!)

In 1891 the Village of Hill Top apparently starts at RG12; Piece: 4094; Folio: 33; Page: 62 Schedule No. 354, and is marked as finishing at RG12; Piece: 4094; Folio: 37A; Page: 71 Schedule No. 413. None of the properties are numbered, and only four are named;
Walton's Houses, the Board Inn, Ushaw College, and St. Joseph's Schools.
Not the correct Hill Top
Stan

[stanmapstone]

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[Elliven]

In 1891 the Village of Hill Top apparently starts at RG12; Piece: 4094; Folio: 33; Page: 62 Schedule No. 354, and is marked as finishing at RG12; Piece: 4094; Folio: 37A; Page: 71 Schedule No. 413. None of the properties are numbered, and only four are named;
Walton's Houses, the Board Inn, Ushaw College, and St. Joseph's Schools.
?? Walton's Houses and the Board Inn are long gone.  Ushaw College is a large Catholic school/seminary and is several miles away!  The nearest schools named St Josephs are at Hare Law which is about a mile away and at Stanley, about 3 miles away.  There have never been schools at Hill Top.

[Elliven]

Could it be Isabella Smith age 44 and her 4 children aged between 7 and 18?  Or Thomas Smith age 37 and his wife Martha Smith age 41?  They are the only ones I can find on the 1891 Census where the description actually fits the real Hill Top.

[stanmapstone]

In 1891 the Village of Hill Top apparently starts at RG12; Piece: 4094; Folio: 33; Page: 62 Schedule No. 354, and is marked as finishing at RG12; Piece: 4094; Folio: 37A; Page: 71 Schedule No. 413. None of the properties are numbered, and only four are named;
Walton's Houses, the Board Inn, Ushaw College, and St. Joseph's Schools.

Stan

Apologies, that is a different Hill Top.

Stan