Location Help

[Michael Dixon]

Betty,

I must be psychic.... or crazy...??

Only now do I realise that no name was mentioned in the query of an 1832 burial. So how and why did I get onto a John who was alive on later censuses ?...

I think I took the clue from Heywood who spotted Clattering Causey recorded as birth places on censuses. I followed that route, then focused on a Rogerson on Census !861. I tracked him back and forward to see what other birth places were recorded for him on other censuses... and got Rosebrough from 1851 Census.  Sound fairly logical ? - yes ?.... But this was for James Mitchell Rogerson... so the reason why I wrote John instead of James escapes me. I will have to get out more ?

I sometimes access a fiche   " Northumberland Marriages 1813-1837 (or 1839 ? )..... One (or two)early "pages" on the fiche, show the abbreviation index... e.g. NSJ = Newcastle, St John's.

The "C" in my "C1851" is abbrev. for Census. I use small "c" for circa, but you weren't to know that !

For places in Northumberland, the ref Heywood supplied is very useful for ascertaining in which Township (an unfortunate term as this type of parochial Township has nothing to do with towns) , within which "ancient" Parish does a comunnity lie.

The GenUKI pages within Northumberland>Parishes>Nearby Places is also useful.

Michael Dixon

[specialkg]

Hi Michael

This is getting spooky.  I said exactly the same thing to Christine that you must be psychic.

If you can access a fiche for marriages Christine might be back in touch. 

Meantime thanks for your input.

Betty

[heywood]

Well I left at the Causeway - and I'll stick to that decision.

good luck everyone 
heywood

[Michael Dixon]

Quotes from a book " Goodwife Hot and others, - Northumberland's Past as shown in it's Place Names" by Godfrey Watson, published 1970.

The author is discussing all sorts of roads......

" .........If it proved absolutely necessary to cross marsh or even clay land, the road might be built up on a Causeway, producing name like Corse Hall, (still known in 1769 as Causeway Houses) and Causey Park................"

" Secondly there were the old Paved Roads, either left by Romans or "made-up" with stone. Stannington was originally Stan-weg-tun",.. the "Homestead by the Stone (or paved) Way".... While CLATTERING HOUSES, near Ellingham, took it's name from the sound that horses' hooves made on a paved road.

That this name was in no way abnormal is borne out by a reference in 1580 to  the street called the "Clatterandway", near Whittingham.

In 1702 the same road was known as the CLATTERING CAUSEWAY. "


Michael Dixon

[specialkg]

Thanks Michael for the information about names of roads etc.

I have ancestors from Stannnington in Yorkshire.  I never knew how it got its name.

It is interesting to see how roads and places got their names and how the names gradually changed through time.  Why was there need to change.  The old names are much more interesting!!.

Thanks again.

Betty

[Northerngirl]

Hi Christina

I wonder if I can put my pennie's worth in here.

My family of the Elliotts came from Lucker.  If you look at the name Lucker it originates from a place where the marsh land was - or something like that. Slightly to its North East is a tiny hamlet called Ross which it seems was also claimed from the once marshy land.  Newstead and Newham fall into the same area as Lucker - part of Bambro parish - and are Lucker's neighbours.  It is possible that the causeway was a 'bridging' road to further in land towards Newstead, Newham and Lucker much like the causeway at Holy Island and Goswick/Cheswick etc.  In the early 1800's Lucker managed to club together enough monies from the locals to build a bridge over (presumably) a river or water expanse and this could be where the Causeway led to or from.

Hope this helps.
J.A.