Durham Place , Middlesbrough

[smoggie45]

Does anyone have any idea where  this exactly was , have looked on old maps but cant find it . Am assuming it was a small courtyard or something like that , My great great grandmother Rebecca Galloway nee Craddock was born here in 1856 and would like to know where it was before over the border is totally changed

[G Hearse]

i have found a Rebecca Galloway in 1861 Census living in Field house in Little Broughton, in her Grandfathers house., the birthplace being shown as Eston. Where does the Durham place come from?

[genjen]

There is still a Durham Road in Eston, so maybe Durham Place was off there.

Jen

[genjen]

Actually, having just looked on Street View, Durham Road is a modern development. That doesn't mean that it didn't replace an older area of housing but I am fairly sure that it was just open fields when I grew up just down the road, so maybe my previous post should be ignored.

Jen

[smoggie45]

My father has a newspaper cutting dated feb 6th 1953 , in which hs great aunt rebecca cox nee galloway is talking abt the family in middlesbrough . She says her mother was born in durham place and had never left middlesbrough , her father , John Galloway , was born 1851 (Feb 21) in Suffield St . They lived at Tees Cottages next to Pease Ironworks believed to be where the Riverside Stadium is now. Also how her great grandfathers family (Craddock) came to Middlesbrough from Staithes.

Regards

David

[genjen]

David,

As you probably know, Suffield Street is in that area which now includes Riverside Park and that there is also Durham Road, close by. I suspect that if there was a Durham Place, it was demolished long ago.

I think that somewhere in the dozens of boxes of paperwork which came from my mother's house when she died, there might be some maps of old Middlesbrough. If I can dig them out, I'll see if there is anything to help you.

Jen

[smoggie45]

much appreciated , thank you


Mam and dad are both from Middlesbrough , we are at Marske now and it is frustrating them as they have never heard of this place


regards and thanks

David

[genjen]

I only know about some parts of the town because of what my mother told me. She grew up in Middlesbrough and my elder sister and I were both born there. But that area of town was cleared some time in the 1950s, by which time we had moved to Lazenby, so I have no personal memories of it.

You might try asking here:
http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/bridgeender/index.phtml

It is a fascinating site anyway and there are people there with first hand knowledge of Middlesbough Streets.

Jen

[smoggie45]

will check that site out , mam was was born in newport (derwent st) in 1936 moved to brambles farm in 1943 , dad was born and bred in brambles farm .  Moved to the coast in the early 60's due to mam having chronic asthma and medical advice .

I would have guessed Durham Place would be off Durham Street between Queens Sq and the Capt Cook pub but on a map i saw from abt 1850 it wasn't on there .

Am trailing round Thornaby cemetary next week for them as most of mothers ancestors from 1880 - 1940 are in there or Oxbridge Lane ,Stockton . Confirming dates we got , hopre they the same as headstones lol

David