Was there such a place as Dorrinton?

[habanero]

My great-great granny Isabella Maughan (nee Emery) and sometimes spelt Isobel proclaims on all censuses to be born in Dorrinton in Northumberland, She was daughter of William Emery, a miner.

Now, I know there is a place called Doddington but that is dairy farming country..

Does anyone know if a place called Dorrinton ever existed??

Thanks,  Anne

[Michael Dixon]

Anne,

Although Doddington is, as you say "country", it still had a coal mine....it shut in 1904.

I will spare you the lecture on the underground strata and structure of the "Northumberland and Durham Coalfield" LOL

 Dinnington Colliery ?   a possible sound-alike ?

Michael Dixon

[PaulaToo]

Have you tried Dorrington? Give it a google and see if anything turns up that rings a bell.

[GrahamGall]

There is a traditional folksong... Dorrington Lads, where it is used as another form of Doddington.

[GrahamGall]

On familysearch an Isabella daughter of William is shown baptised in Doddington in 1823, is it her?

[habanero]

Thanks all; I found the family search record re Isabella but was just a bit mystified as Doddington is nearer the Scottish border rather than in the Tynemouth hubble-bubble that appeared to be my family!

I did wonder if her accent may have led the enumerator to write Dorrinton.

Anne

[PaulaToo]

Yes, sometimes things get muddled up. Nothing to do with your case, Anne, but I have a case of this, only it was at a registry office.
After all his trials and name changes with his mother, the dreaded Eliza Ann, Walter George Harmsworth Moore ended up leaving Portsmouth for Reading.
His death there is reported by his brother in law, who must have been a Reading man through and through, Walter George Armsworth Moore. I presume the H was buried with him.

[J.J.]

They had accents? ?
Was quite surprised to hear that Ugham was said Uffim...but apparently the name Maughan was also  to have been said...Muffin!!!  J.J.
 

[Michael Dixon]

the place name was ULGHAM... with the letter L silent.


The surname STRAUGHAN commonly pronounced like
" straw-'n ".

 But in my part of Northumberland it said like
" straffen"

Michael