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Quote from: Claudia Oliver on Wednesday 26 April 23 20:17 BST (UK)

Out of interest, if anyone spots any reference to a John Golipher/Golifer/Gulliver on their travels through any records relating to this, I would be very interested! This is the family I am trying to track. They were in Back Street in 1861, (no street listed for 1871) and Low St in 1881. John died in the mid August 1881 presumably at Low St.

There is a report on Friday,  Aug. 19, 1881, Publication: Newcastle Courant about John GULLIVER, drainer, of Brampton's death (suicide). Happy to copy or transcribe it if you haven't seen it.

Also an item about a draining match on the Estate of the Duke of Sutherland at Trentham, John GULLIVER part of the team that took 2nd prize.
Friday,  Jan. 14, 1859
Publication: Carlisle Journal

I would love to see this in full. This is him and I was told it was a suicide though I have no further information. Many thanks for both items!

I've been looking at the 1851 tithe map of Brampton (surveyed 1850). It is definitely one of the better tithe maps I have looked at, in fact it is really more like a census, with many individual houses labelled and their owners and occupiers named. There are several street names that are familiar from the OS map, but having trawled though the transcript I do not see any mention of Low Street. It's interesting that Low Street is also absent from the 1851 census (according to FindMyPast).

There are however some street names on the tithe map that are not on the OS map. In the spirit of ruling out some of these as candidates for Low Street here are two of them:

On the OS map, follow Back Lane coming in from the NW. There is a complicated 'junction' where the fields labelled 122, 118 and 115 come near to each other, with the letters FW (face of wall) tilted and on top of other detail. I don't see a name for the lane that heads off to the north east, but just after that coming into town there is a fork. Back Lane continues as the left fork. The right fork at that point is String of Horses Lane which again forks, with the right fork being Fawkin's Hill, and the other continuing as String of Horses Lane. Back Lane and Fawkin's Hill both open into Back Street, whereas String of Horses Lane leads to a PH.

String of Horses Lane is also in FindMyPast address search for 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891. Fawkins Hill (which has very few properties labelled on the tithe map, is only in FindMyPast address search for 1871 and 1901.

You just beat me too it. I just spotted Back Lane too!

That's brilliant. So Back Street is now Main Street. Thank you!

Fairly sure I am related to some of the Brockbank's discussed in this thread. My Edward Brockbank born 1815 in Dalton. His parents I believe were Edward B and Sarah Shepherd. Happy to discuss if this thread is still live but I appreciate it's a while ago now.

I have recently acquired the personal memoirs of my grandfather's time in the AFS during WWII. He lived at Shooters Hill and covered that area broadly, during his time as a volunteer.

It includes over 100 pages of typed text and numerous photographs of training exercises, vehicles, unit photographs and some of the people he worked with. If you have a relative who may have worked in that area at that time for the AFS I may have a mention of them or even a photo. My grandfather was Leslie Vosper.

I am considering transcribing his memoirs and doing something more with them but I haven't decided on the best way forward with this yet as I am not sure how much call there is for this kind of information.

Claudia