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Messages - Geordie Mag

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Sussex / Re: Frederick Road Municipal Hospital, Hastings
« on: Tuesday 28 February 23 14:36 GMT (UK)  »
From the length of their illnesses and the fact that three of the family were afflicted it would seem that they had TB. The Hastings Borough Sanatorium was in Frederick Road round about the time of the 2nd War. Not sure how the Sanatorium related to other hospital buildings there.  Was it completely separate in its own grounds or a wing of another building? Mag.

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Northumberland / Re: Died in Gosforth.
« on: Saturday 17 December 22 15:25 GMT (UK)  »
St Nicholas churchyard is featured in "Find a Grave", but has no record of any Rounds at all. The site claims to have recorded nearly all the gravestones, though as Gadget says it  can be difficult to read some of the stones. Last time I walked round it was pretty overgrown so there may be some unrecorded stones lurking in the undergrowth. Mag

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Northumberland / Re: Mary Grey/Gray - is this straw worth clutching?
« on: Saturday 17 July 21 21:02 BST (UK)  »
Well, my first instinct is to say that this is indeed a straw to clutch. I have discovered one or two instances where the place of birth given in the census is in fact the place where the person spent their remembered childhood.
I did think of some alternative scenarios, but they don't seem to apply in your case.
1. Gosforth parish church is about 2 miles from Kenton so they might have found a nearby church in a different parish.
2 They might have had several children "done" together as a batch. Very popular with my ancestors. But the family seem to have stayed loyal to Gosforth while in the area.
I shall keep thinking!
Mag

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Durham / Re: Two Place names I need help with
« on: Tuesday 25 May 21 07:25 BST (UK)  »
Jumping in again,(!), JLMiller needs to post another (or is it 2 more?) more messages on the public board before using the private messaging system, so have a bit of a chat here first. Mag

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Durham / Re: Two Place names I need help with
« on: Friday 23 April 21 15:37 BST (UK)  »
I got the record from FreeReg, which you will find along with FreeBMD and FreeCen on
freebmd.org.uk
Volunteers, including some people on here, enter information from registers - all the information, so if the register gives a house name the entry will too. There are of course 2 sets of registers - the original ones done close to the event and the Bishop's Registers, which are the neat copies sent in to the diocese. They can differ slightly so it is useful to know which register is being used and best if you can get the info from both.
There is also Durham Records Online for which you pay to get a detailed record of an entry, but which lets you take an overall look at what they have got.   Mag.

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Durham / Re: Two Place names I need help with
« on: Thursday 22 April 21 20:23 BST (UK)  »
(I wrote a careful reply to your question then lost it with a careless tap of my finger. This will not be so careful!) I think we established that Sisodorgue is a scrambled version of Six Dargs or Six Days Work.
The key baptism entry is for Nov. 20th 1802 at St John's Chapel when the Hodgsons brought 4 of their children to be "done" together. The parents are John Hodgson and Ann (nee Harrison) of Six Dargs and the children are John, 2nd son born 1795, Thomas 3rd son, William 4th son and Edward 5th son. Sorry, John's is the only d.o.b I have down.
The other name you are after, I imagine, is High Rigg (not Ridge). In the 1851 census the John who was born in 1795 and was now living in the Bishop Auckland area says he was born at Highrig. if you look at the map Stan posted showing Six Days Work and go in a line south west from that farm you will come to Middle Rigg and then High Rigg. I think there could be another High Rigg slightly further down the dale just to the south of Daddry Shield. Mag

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Durham / Re: ingleton windwill
« on: Sunday 21 March 21 20:54 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,
I have been busy with other stuff (eg pulling pond weed out of our lock down pond. Deep joy!) but have now managed to glance at some Teesdale BTs. So first up Gainford. Their register records the baptism of John Todd (no Southern as a second name) son of Thomas and Elizabeth on October 18th 1820, Thomas being a farmer at Langton (image 250).
Then the Denton/Gainford register. On August 12th 1853 it records the burial of John Todd of Killerby, lately returned from London.
Then from the Ingleton register for November 23rd 1859:- burial of John Southern Todd aged 69.
I'm afraid I didn't record the image numbers for either of the burials, but they are in much shorter registers.
I started looking up pther information about the on census records etc but decided that way lay madness (so many John Todds!) and left them for another day.
Thanks for the offer of the wills. I will look to see if any of them are useful. Mag

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Durham / Re: ingleton windwill
« on: Friday 19 March 21 22:28 GMT (UK)  »
I have John Southeron Todd as John's  uncle, born 1789, but I shall check all the details tomorrow. All very strange, since you have the certificate.
Mag

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Durham / Re: ingleton windwill
« on: Friday 19 March 21 16:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hello and welcome.

John was the 4th child of Thomas Todd, who farmed at Killerby, though John was born in the nearby hamlet of Langton in 1820, so perhaps Thomas had not yet taken on the farm at Killerby.
In my records I have made a note that going through the records of the chapel at Denton, I found a record of the death of John Todd aged 33 at Killerby in 1853 "having recently returned from London." Sadly it does not give a cause of death (some earlier burial records do). I imagine that he was not well and thought his family would have more support if they were near his family. (Although it could be that work was not going well and he thought he would have more chance of employment in his home area)
His older brother , Joseph, farmed at Middleton House, Ingleton.
Hope this helps.
Mag

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