Where is Dunkirk in Durham?

[Irene B]

I have William Nicholson on 1851 census at Seaton & Slingsley, place of birth is Dunkirk, Durham

Does anyone know where this is?

[Kiltpin]

Wikipedia lists the following - 

Dunkirk, Cambridgeshire, a hamlet north of Ely and west of Littleport
Dunkirk, Cheshire
Dunkirk, Gloucestershire
Dunkirk, Kent, a village between Faversham and Canterbury
Dunkirk, Norfolk
Dunkirk, Nottingham
Dunkirk, Staffordshire
Dunkirk, Wiltshire 

No Durham. 

Regards 

Chas

[stanmapstone]

Dunkirk is in Lamesley

Stan

[Irene B]

Lamesley makes sense since that is where he was married. 

Thank you

[stanmapstone]

See the map at https://maps.nls.uk/view/102341479#zoom=5&lat=2582&lon=3129&layers=BT

Stan

[stevej60]

Doesn't ring a bell with me Irene,there are a lot of small hamlet's now long gone which only show up
on very old map's,my hunch would be a farm or such like,I have an ancestor fromTeesdale who has
Botany as her birthplace which was her father's farm near Middleton,any clues in later cencus?

[stevej60]

Ah now I'm from Birtley up the road and remember there is a Dunkirk Farm at Northside that is at the
north of the town.
https://www.yell.com/biz/h-and-d-h-hankey-chester-le-street-4596991/

[barryd]

From Durham Records Online -

Lamesley, originally a chapelry of Chester-le-Street parish, covered the neighborhoods of Bainesley Lane, Birkhead or Birch Heads, Birtley, Boggle or Bogg Hole, Chowdean, Coal Flat, Cow Close, Cox Close, Darwent Crook, Dumper Mill, Dunkirk, Eighton Banks (called Eighteen Banks in many of these baptisms), Fugar House, Gateshead Fell, Harlow Green, Hedley, Kibblesworth, Lamesley, Long Acres, Loosing Hill, Lowsey Law, Moor Mills, Mount, Newcastle, North End, Old Engine, Penny Fine, Ravensworth, Riding Gate, Sheddon Law, Southrines Shop, Street Gate, Tinker Row, Urpeth, and Wasting or Weston Row.

[emeltom]

In the 1851 Census William has a daughter Mary Ann, born 1838. There is a William Nicholson in 1861 living in Dawdon, Easington, with a daughter Mary Ann born 1837. This William states he was born Northumberland. There is a Dunkirk in Northumberland and FreeReg has a baptism entry in 1802 for a William Nicholson baptised in Newborough which is about 3 miles or so from Dunkirk. Might be worth looking into.

The ref for the 1861 Census is RG09/3749/F4/p4

Emeltom