High House in Monkton, near Hebburn - history of the house & property?

[Ruskie]

I hope the documents provide some new and interesting information. Fingers crossed. 

[dtcoulson]

Hello Hello Hello,

I really need your help with something!

Today I remembered about a War Memorial on which my grandfather's name is etched in the top right corner. I have a photograph of the memorial taken by an aunt who visited England back in the 1980s.

The note at the bottom of the picture says that the memorial is in Monkton Village.
I have Googled Monkton War Memorial and verified that there is a memorial there and it looks rather like the one in my Aunty's photo but I can't be 100 percent sure.

Can anyone get an inscription for this monument?

I have Googled it years ago and know that I got an inscription off it at the time but I have no idea what has become of that download, and now need to get it off the internet again. As I recall, the memorial honours the young men from (the region) who served in the war, whether they survived or perished. That is why my grandfather's name is there despite him living on for many decades.

When I first Googled this memorial, several years ago, I had the wrong impression that Monkton and Hebburn were simply overlapping suburbs of the same city and paid no attention to whether the statue was in Monkton or Hebburn and whether it listed the names from either community or both. It was all the same to me at the time. Now I am interested in seeing whether  his name is on a memorial in Hebburn or in Monkton.


I will continue to Google this target on my own but I sure hope there is someone out there who knows Monkton well and can get me a transcript of the inscription, or a photo of it.

Cheers
-David C

[JenB]

For an enquiry of this kind your first port of call should be the North East War memorial project 

here is the memorial you refer to complete with full transcript http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=8005

[dtcoulson]

Bingo

I knew somebody would get it sooner than me.
Well done and thank you very much.

-DC

[JenB]

Photo and location map https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1574609

[stanmapstone]

Google Street View https://goo.gl/maps/GjrcQ26pQez

Stan

[dtcoulson]

Also for those who have been following this inquiry:

I decided to review my uncle's notes to see if I could work out where he got his information from and see how reliable his claim was that the family lived in Monkton.

It's funny when you read something with a specific purpose in mind that is different from the last sixteen times you read it, you instantly see things you brushed over before.

It was clear from the details he was listing about his father and his grandfather that my uncle was quoting details off of his father's marriage certificate, which he must have ordered back in the 1990s.

The marriage took place in Aug 1919.
The groom, TS Coulson was described as "of Monkton".
His father's occupation was "farm labourer".

Since my uncle never researched the life of his father's sister,
he could not have obtained the name "High House Monkton" from
the sister's marriage cert in June 1920, as I did. 
He must have read it as the groom's address on his father's marriage cert.

Looks pretty good to me that the family really were in Monkton, in High House.

Thanks again
-DC

[stanmapstone]

In the 1911 census there is a schedule for High House Cottage, after the schedule for High House. The daughter of the occupant of High House Cottage was a  Domestic General Servant, probably for High House. Was TS Coulson living in the Cottage, rather than High House itself?
You can see High House Cottage on the map at https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/432500/563500/13/101329

Stan

[JayG]

I can't see that anyone has looked at the Electoral Rolls on FindMyPast on this or the other thread.

There's various Coulson's on the ER's for 1918, 1920 to 1922, unfortunately there is no actual address only 'Monkton'.

1923 is the first year I can find where 'High House' is listed as an address rather than just Monkton.

ER Spring & Autumn 1923
High House, Monkton
George E & Maggie D Turner

ER Autumn 1924
High House, Monkton
Francis R & Hilda Robertson

There's no Coulson's at Monkton after 1922 which I noticed is the year William died so that could be significant. Did widowed Jane have to sell High House or did she have to give up here tenancy?

Jane, along with Henry and Frederick are listed on the ER at 54 Jutland Avenue, Hebburn New Town, Spring 1923.  There's several other Coulson's listed at 7 Station Road, 29 Aln Street and 66 Campbell Street.  I can post up the details if you can't access these yourself on FindMyPast.

Cheers
Jay