Joanne,
We always seem to be on dodgy ground on our folk after 1901 !
Looking at your "route", I am a little uneasy about the lass in Bedlington on C1901, marrying in Blyth in 1919. But of course they easily could have moved.
Bedlington in St Cuthberts, had a handy C of E parish church, which was hardly a mile away from their address on C1901.
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But I will throw some geography at you, to help you to ink in your scenario, or rub it out.
* Dudley once a green field site that turned into a typical colliery village, existing only for the coal.
Dudley lay within the "township" ( a horrible term just to mean a "sub-division" of a parish, nowt to do with town ! ) of Weetslade, which was part of the Parish of Longbenton.
*Seaton Delaval ( after the Norman-French Delaval family) was one of the eight townships, of the Parish of Earsdon.
* Shankhouse was a mining village within the Parish of Cramlington
* Hartford.... there were/are two Hartfords.. West Hartford and East Hartford, each , one of the five townships that made up the Parish of Horton. There was a coal pit at East Hartford.
Gosforth, it's centre about 3 miles due north of Newcastle City, was another " ancient" parish.
The Church of St Mary's in Blyth ( Market Place) had been a "chapel of ease" of its mother, the parish Church of Mary the Virgin, Horton, but then got it's independence in 1897.
Any BMD happening in Bedlington, the town and the wider parish, would have been registered at/with the Morpeth Registration District ( but to save shoe leather, there were sub-district offices at Morpeth itself, Ashington and Bedlington).
BMDs at all the other above places** lay within the jurisdiction of Tynemouth Registration District. Tynemouth RD had seven sub offices, including Longbenton, Cramlington and Blyth.
** BMDs within Gosforth parish area were to be registered in the Castle Ward RD.
Some census enumerators, especially the earlier ones, would record "parish of birth", rather than the actual place of birth that probably had no antiquity.
So it all seems to be compatible ( except Isabella b. Gosforth/Longbenton.. two separate but NEIGHBOURING, parishes).
Back to the C1901 for a little local "colour".
The family lived at "The Ironworks". This was the famous Bedlington Ironworks, situated on both banks of the River Blyth, that had closed in mid 1800s.
Early railway lines were expensive because when long ones were attempted the iron, snapped, cracked, until the clever lads at Bedlington invented "wrought iron", allowing them to be much longer.
Both George and Robert Stephenson were connected to the Works. Also the first ever steam locomotive in Italy was built at Bedlington Ironworks. Ditto for the Netherlands. If ever you are in Rome or Amsterdam, pop into their museums and see the Bedlington locos.
The house addresses round about the family were "Puddlers Row" ( now Stead Lane) Bank Top ( the River Blyth ran below in a ravine) and Jubilee Terrace
( there today running into Bedlington Station ). At Bank Top there was a pub called the Puddlers Arms...now called The Bank Top. I wonder if Henry was connected to that ?
(see modern maps on
www.google.maps.co.uk)
Loads on internet about Bedlington Ironworks.
See
www.genuki.org.uk for helpful "active" map on Northumberland's parishes, and Registration Districts.
See also communities.northumberland.gov.uk for old photos etc, of Bedlington, Blyth (the marriage church ! ) Seaton Delaval, Cramlington.
Enough.
Michael Dixon.
of Bebside Colliery,
in Township of Cowpen,
in Parish of Horton,
in County of Northumberland
Michael Dixon
