Minorca, Sunderland?

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You can see Minorca (Place) on the maps at http://www.durham-images.org/public/ms/m17/m17sb4.html and http://www.durham-images.org/public/ms/m17/m17sc4.html
Minorca (Place) was a double row of good quality two or three storey houses. There is a tale that the name commemorates the capture of Minorca in the Napoleonic wars, but the name appears to have been in use some 16 years before this event, and no other explanation can be given to its origin.

Stan

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Thanks a lot for your help, I thought it a bit strange that he would have been living in Minorca, but why wasnt there a house number with it I wonder?

Street numbering systems did not become formalised in most towns until the 1850s, at the earliest. As late as 1871 it was noted in the census report:
The census is taken with comparative ease in a town where all the streets and courts are named, where all houses are consecutively numbered, and where all the boundaries are distinctly marked. Such business-like arrangements are always made where the municipal government is intelligent and energetic; but the duty is unfortunately neglected in many places…

Stan

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This 1827 Map shows the location of many of the old Sunderland streets http://aesica.dur.ac.uk/pip/singlezoom.asp?img=p2387&ref1=2258

Minorca is to the north of Church Walk opposite Holy Trinity Church.

Stan

That link is now http://iiif.durham.ac.uk/index.html?manifest=https://iiif.durham.ac.uk/manifests/other/pip/pip-2258.json

Stan