High House in Monkton, near Hebburn - history of the house & property?

[dtcoulson]

Here are the attachments

[stanmapstone]

High House is not a listed building according to https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/map-search?postcode=NE32%205NP&clearresults=True
There are seven listed buildings in Monkton Village.
Stan

[stanmapstone]

Just to say the original report Strickland, J., (2009). Land to the east of Barns Close, Monkton, South Tyneside. North Pennines Archaeology Ltd. can be seen at http://www.rootschat.com/links/01mog/

Stan

[dtcoulson]

Cheers, Stan.

I just came across a document on the Monkton Village Association website about the conservation area set up to protect the special character of the town. It describes a number of houses i the conservation area and mentions High House twice, both times saying it is excluded from the conservation area.  (!)

Short of talking to your regional council about ownership records, which I think is a step too tedious, I think this is about all I will get on this search, so I will call it a day unless something else pops up.

Monkton looks like a charming place to live.

-DC

[dtcoulson]

... ah yes, I see that I misread the paragraph about 'listing'. High House is on a local list, separate from the first six.

-DC

[Ruskie]

David, I have had another look at your reasons for believing your family lived at High House. You may be right saying that Minnie was in service there rather than the whole family living there. It is impossible to speculate whether she would give her place of employment as her address, but she may have done if she lived in.

I don't think there are any voter lists for this time otherwise that might have been a way to trace their movements.

I still think that trying to find house deeds or records of ownership might be the way to go. I'm afraid I don't know how to go about that though. Possibly first port of call may be local council or archives? They may be able to point you in the right direction at least. I may be wrong but I vaguely remember reading that there is a cost involved for this kind of search ....

Other than that, your "list of documents" which may prove the family lived at High House, is worth pursuing depending on how determined you are. 

[dtcoulson]

I am going to get marriage certs for Joseph (1917) and Thomas (1919) and see what residences they produce. This is the familiar thing to do and has known costs and is likely to reveal other interesting things along the way.

If I had confidence the family bought the country house then I would be more open to the research route you described. But I am pretty confident this was a rental that lasted a short period of time, if it happened at all. It is rather hard to shoe-horn my working class family into a country home when the rest of my data wants to keep them in crowded little homes in Hebburn.

I re-read my uncle's notes overnight and see that he has not found a number of BMD facts that today could easily be obtained online, which tells me that he did not write to GRO.  This leads me to think that his mention of High House comes not from Mary's wedding cert but from some other source.

So... back and forth on the reasoning. I could continue speculating further but the thing to do is gather more data. Hence GRO.

-DC

[Ruskie]

I agree that chasing up some certificates is the best next move. 

[dtcoulson]

I just bought five of the items on my list of indicative records, from GRO.
This will take about seven weeks to arrive (it always does).
So if you see this thread suddenly spring back to life at the end of October
then you know I've found something interesting.
Meantime, thanks all.
I'll consider this topic finished.

-DC