Placename: Cashaw, Durham?

[..claire..]

I hope this link works but there is an article (I can’t view it) but what I can see from this snippet (10th article down) - there is a COSHOW Durham- if I’m reading it correctly

https://www.GenesReunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=william%20gedge&county=cambridgeshire%2C%20england&from=1750&to=1799

Claire

[stanmapstone]

Off topic, but there's a Nova Scotia!

According to "A Dictionary of County Durham Place Names", Nova Scotia is a typical name for a remote field on a farm. From "English Field Names: A Dictionary" by John Field.

Stan

[davidft]

Thank you Claire, I can see Coshow in the index but requires a subscription to open the page apparently (I thought my membership of the site would suffice but seems not?). Still if all else fails I can make a note to look it up later. Thank you.

[josey]

I found the excerpt on findmypast newspapers - OCR has read it as Coshow but it is printed Coxhow.

[stanmapstone]

According to "The Place Names of Durham" by the Rev. Charles E. Jackson, published in 1916, the "Dictionary of County Durham Place Names" by Victor Watts, published in 2002, and "Durham Places in the Mid-Nineteenth Century" published by Durham County Record Office, there is no such place as Coshow.
There is no record of Coshow in the Durham County Record Office archives
Stan

I found the excerpt on findmypast newspapers - OCR has read it as Coshow but it is printed Coxhow.

That explains it 

[..claire..]

Just did a blank name search of any census for a person in Coshaw - a Mary Joyce states her place of birth as Coshaw, Durham on two entries

EDIT- born in Coxhoe on a prior entry

[davidft]

Thank you all looks like Coxhoe is what I need to be looking at.

I think I will have to look for another baptism for Isabella

[davidft]

So the next question, if someone was born in Coxhoe where would their baptism come under, would it be Chester Le Street ?

[..claire..]

Not sure to be honest given Coxhoe’s proximity to Durham.

I can only see the baptism entry you have already found. Father - John.

A transcript of the marriage gives her fathers name as John Irwin

Claire