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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Northumberland => Topic started by: hatofthecat on Tuesday 01 March 16 12:32 GMT (UK)
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I've found my maternal great Grandmother Margaret Waugh (born 1867) on the 1939 Register living at 54 Sunniside in Seaton Valley UDC. Can anyone help me pin it down a map as scanning through maps I'm not sure whereabouts it might be (or have been) :-\ ...close to a pit for sure as all her neighbours are colliery workers
thanks for any help
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There is a map on the preview page which shows you exactly where it is.
however if you want to see it on a modern map enter the postcode NE29 7JJ and it will take you right there
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Thanks davidft, a cousin sent me the info but not the map. I'm now wandering up and down the road in Google Streetview trying to find No. 54 but I think the house numbers have been rejigged later ::) Have found the street on this 1938 surveyed map which is excellent 8)
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The Sunniside on the map was in Tynemouth District. The one you are interested in was in Seaton Valley. Were there two streets of the same name?
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If you back track a couple of pages on the register you will come to Station Road, and to a few named houses.
Looking at the maps, they are still there, and it's a different Sunniside - now spelt Sunnyside. It's in Cramlington.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01h64/
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You can see it on this map http://maps.nls.uk/view/101028723#zoom=4&lat=3516&lon=1675&layers=BT
Stan
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Google Street View https://goo.gl/maps/rWGYWRuf61x
Stan
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it's a different Sunniside - now spelt Sunnyside.
It looks as if the 'official' name was actually Sunnyside judging by the map.
Apart from the dodgy location I was also bit suspicious of the map attached to the register because there seemed to be far more dwellings on the register than there were on the ground.
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I was still looking at this and was working out the FindMyPast map link might be entirely wrong JenB ::) I just couldn't see how North Shields would ever be classed to be in Seaton Valley UDC ??? Also looking at a 1938 OS map of North Shields the houses along Sunniside there correspond well with the current houses, and there is nothing above a no. 34... so far short of the No.71 at bottom of the register page ! My expectation was the Sunniside would be somewhere around areas of Cramlington (as she was there is 1911), Earsdon, Seaton Delavel, Backworth, Holywell, Seghill (husband died there in 1904, pit accident). Doing a quick Google Streetview walk down the road I can see they are the right sort of pre-war houses and numbers go to right range ;D Thanks for that as I was back to scratch searching again :'(
Thanks also stanmapstone I was just also searching the NLS held maps and that's it for sure. I was slightly worried initially as the road looks like a modern curving estate road on on modern large scale map. Maybe it follows an old land feature ?
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Yes I had the wrong Sunniside, sorry about that
The postcode of the correct one is NE23 6UU if you need it for future reference.
(There are quite a few Sunniside/Sunnysides around actually as I have found them before in my research)
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(There are quite a few Sunniside/Sunnysides around actually as I have found them before in my research)
Same here - and my g-g-grandfather complicated matters by living on a farm called Sunniside ::)
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No probs davidft, looks like FindMyPast are using a less than accurate method of finding places ::)
Yes, my first thought re. Sunniside was "what is she doing in Newcastle ?".... have now found the house on Google Streetview at western end of the road, it must have been like a palace to her after growing up and raising her children in pit rows.