Aireyholme and West Auckland

[rubyrose]

Hi All

My husband's family were boilermakers and moved from Cheshire to Teeside in the 1870s to Thornaby on Tees to work in the shipyards.

I am trying to track the family of my husband's grandmother (Whitehead) but am having great difficulty identifying the villages they came from. I have found the Whiteheads initially in Eston in Yorkshire in the 1700s and through marriage into the Newby family they moved to Long Newton in Durham and then to Middlesbrough where my husband's grandfather met and married Edith Whitehead in 1915.

The different parts of the family come from a range of villages in Durham and North Riding - Witton Gilbert, Eston, West Auckland and Aireyholme - all converging in Long Newton. I have managed to find information about three of the villages, can't find West Auckland at all and am unsure about Aireyholme as it appears to be the farm which is famous for being where Captain Cook's family lived in the 1700s.

Could some kind person please tell me where West Auckland is and also if there is a place called Aireyholme or if it is solely a farm.

Any information would be gratefully received.

Regards

Ruby

[Chairlady]

West Auckland is south West of Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham
http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=54.62908,-1.72993|12|4&loc=GB:54.62908:-1.72993:14|west%20auckland|West%20Auckland,%20Lcp%20Stanhope%20and%20Wolsingham%20Parishes%20And,%20DL14%209

I think that the Airyholme you seek is probably around Great Ayton, there is not just a farm, but many other buildings on that lane. 

regards

[madpants]

It might not be Airyholme, it could be Eryholme which is a little village just off the Darlington-Northallerton road

http://www.genuki.org.uk:8080/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Eryholme/Eryholme90.html

(I got my dog from a farmer at Eryholme  )

[rubyrose]

Thanks very much Chairlady and Madpants, I've now got something to go on in investigating West Auckland. The census returns definitely read Aireyholme so I guess the family must have worked the land around the farm.

Waiting for a birth certificate to tell me the surname of Eliza from Aireyholme who was married to a Whitehead, once I get that it will be interesting to see what other information I can find about her family.

This is my first venture into the North East and I didn't realise how complicated it was - so many villages and parishes and the registration districts don't always seen logical!

Many thanks once again.

Regards

Ruby

[madpants]

If it says Aireyholme is that the parish as opposed to the village etc as Aireyholme is a farm at the top of a lane just near the moor top of Roseberry Topping and is part of Great Ayton, even villages as far away as Ingleby Greenhow are classed as Great Ayton.  Aireyholme could also be Gribdale but that is still Ayton so it could just be that they lived up near the farm (on Aireyholme Lane) and the enumerator couldn't be bothered to fill in the rest.  (I live in Gt Ayton  )

[rubyrose]

Hi Madpants

You live in a lovely part of the world, lucky you.

I have scanned the census extracts and it definitely says Aireyholme. Unfortunately I don't know Eliza's second name. I have sent off for one of the children's birth certificates so should know within a week or two. It could be either Hare of Lofthouse as they are the only marriages I have been able to find for an Eliza to a William Whitehead.

The census extracts are for 1881 in Long Newton and 1891 and 1901 in Middlesbrough. In 1901 Eliza was a widow.

I'll attach 1881 and 1891 to this message and send the 1901 separately.

Be glad to hear how you interpret the writing.

Many thanks.

Ruby

[rubyrose]

Hi Madpants

here is the 1901 from Middlesbrough.

Cheers

Ruby

[madpants]

To be honest I would still be going for Eryholme as it's a village, it's pronounced Eerie holme or Airyholme I'm sure (I say the first but it's inhabitants may say the second) the enumerators write as they hear and the person telling wouldn't necessarily be able to read to tell them it's wrong.  On one it looks like Hairy holme! 

[Teessearcher]

Hi

We would pronounce Eryholme as you say Airyholme so I agree I would think it is the parish on the banks of the River Tees between Darlington & Northallerton.  there is a ford there which you could cross to Neasham on the other side and then down into Yarm.