Gofton of Monkseaton Tynemouth, anywhere in Northumberland

[lara.j]

You're welcome 
As you have probably gathered, I am researching the Thompson family.

Lara 

[csjjpm]

Yes, are they the Thompsons who married some Goftons.  Thomas with his two daughters Mary and Ann who married Robert and Richard Gofton?
P.

[lara.j]

Yes - that is why I referred you to that burial. That is Thomas sr, the grandfather of Ann and Mary Ann.
And the marriage I mentioned is for Robert Thompson, son of Thomas sr and brother of Thomas jr  - and therefore the uncle of the two ladies mentioned above.
As yet I only have these two sons, Robert and Thomas jr, as offspring of Thomas sr and his wife Ann.

Robert was also a farmer and seems to have taken on the farm which had been in his wife's family when her brother died unmarried and childless. I think that Robert's wife Mary Thompson was his first cousin i.e. their fathers, Thomas and John, were brothers. So that farm stayed in the same family...........and is still in the same family to this day!

Lara

[csjjpm]

So the Robert Thompson farm is still run by Thompsons?  Where is it in modern day Northumberland?

I am going to see a great aunt in Liverpool on saturday who was evacuated to a Gofton farm possibly in Monkseaton during WWII.  I dont know who ran that farm then but I think it is an ice rink and football pitches now.

What relation are you to Thomas Thompson Sr?

[lara.j]

I think that it might be the Hill Heads farm that is under the ice rink these days - so perhaps it was there that she was sent?? But I think that there were quite a few farms in that area that have since disappeared under urban sprawl.

There is a very interesting website - www.monkseaton.info - with lots of info on the Hill Head area - and a couple of very useful maps too.

I am not related to the Thompson family at all - but am a friend of, and working for, Thomas sr's great-great-great grandson.
Robert farmed at Seaton Lodge, Seaton Sluice in Earsdon parish and the family now hold several farms in that area.

Lara

[Michael Dixon]

 Introducing a bit of sport !

 Today Whitley Bay football team play at Hillheads Park. Very close to Ice Rink and Cricket pitch.

Hillheads Park postcode is NE25 8HR- back to that in a mo !

Hill Heads farm lay a touch north of here.... under junction of Hill Heads Road and Kingsley Avenue (were some allotments nearby- now supermarket ?

The Durham CC GIS online mapping facilty allows a look at sites from 1850s up through time to modern day...  For search parameters use the postcode.

I noticed a different variation on the name in 1800s... " Whitleyhill Heads"

Michael

[csjjpm]

Michael,
  that is a really great facility.  It looks like the farm was changing to semi detached suburban houses earlier than I was lead to believe.
Thanks
Paul

[Michael Dixon]

 From the Newcastle Courant, edition of 26 Feb 1862

" Deaths.
Gloucester Road, on 22 Feb, Isabella Mary, 24, wife of Charles Gofton Young, only daughter of the late Ralph Laws of this town, and..
on 24 Feb, Charles Gofton, infant son of Mr C G Young   "

Michael

[csjjpm]

Michael,
  I haven't found a 'Charles Gofton' related to any other Goftons, yet.  I'll follow that up.

I have spent hours searching the IGI record search pilot site going through thousands of the hand written pages trying to decipher the handwriting.  I found loads of Goftons now related to the ones I already had.  Unfortunately for a couple of the parishes there were missing Baptismal pages for certain years like 1841 and 1842 for Newburn.

Anyway, I need some help again ;-)

One of the Gofton families lived in Bedlington for some time and had a few children there.  Could you please advise which parish on IGI Bedlington is in as I cannot find it but I know it is there somewhere.

Check out my Gofton tree now (my globe icon next to posting)
Thanks
Paul