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Placename: Banthing in Durham ?
« on: Tuesday 04 August 20 19:33 BST (UK) »
Can anyone suggest what this place name should be, it has been transcribed as Banthing by familysearch and Ancestry.

Link to 1881 transcription
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q271-D65Y
James Stott c1775-1850. James was born in Yorkshire but where? He was a stonemason and married Elizabeth Archer (nee Nicholson) in 1794 at Ripon. They lived thereafter in Masham. If anyone has any suggestions or leads as to his birthplace I would be interested to know. I have searched for it for years without success. Thank you.

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Re: Placename: Banthing in Durham ?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 04 August 20 19:44 BST (UK) »

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Re: Placename: Banthing in Durham ?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 04 August 20 19:46 BST (UK) »
There is a Bantling Castle in Lanchester Parish  - and later in Leadgate St Ives - according to Durham Record Office place name index. See attached link.

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1099987&recordType=GreyLitSeries
Dent (Haltwhistle and Sacriston), Bell and Jetson (Haltwhistle), Postle, Ward, Longstaff, Purvis, Manners, Parnaby and Hardy (Co. Durham), Kennedy and McRobert (Banffshire), Reid(Bathgate), Watson (Wemyss), Graham (Libberton), Sandilands (Carmichael), Munro (Dingwall)

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Re: Placename: Banthing in Durham ?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 04 August 20 19:48 BST (UK) »
Thanks both.

Yes i agree Bantling just found it on the Durham Mining Museum website

Much appreciated
James Stott c1775-1850. James was born in Yorkshire but where? He was a stonemason and married Elizabeth Archer (nee Nicholson) in 1794 at Ripon. They lived thereafter in Masham. If anyone has any suggestions or leads as to his birthplace I would be interested to know. I have searched for it for years without success. Thank you.


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Re: Placename: Banthing in Durham ?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 04 August 20 19:53 BST (UK) »
Battling was also called East Castle.
It’s about half way between Leadgate and Annfield Plain. My g- grandfather lived there for a short time.
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