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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Northumberland => Topic started by: habanero on Sunday 20 August 06 18:16 BST (UK)
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My great-great granny Isabella Maughan (nee Emery) and sometimes spelt Isobel proclaims on all censuses to be born in Dorrinton in Northumberland, She was daughter of William Emery, a miner.
Now, I know there is a place called Doddington but that is dairy farming country..
Does anyone know if a place called Dorrinton ever existed??
Thanks, Anne
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Anne,
Although Doddington is, as you say "country", it still had a coal mine....it shut in 1904.
I will spare you the lecture on the underground strata and structure of the "Northumberland and Durham Coalfield" LOL
Dinnington Colliery ? a possible sound-alike ?
Michael Dixon
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Have you tried Dorrington? Give it a google and see if anything turns up that rings a bell.
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There is a traditional folksong... Dorrington Lads, where it is used as another form of Doddington.
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On familysearch an Isabella daughter of William is shown baptised in Doddington in 1823, is it her?
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Thanks all; I found the family search record re Isabella but was just a bit mystified as Doddington is nearer the Scottish border rather than in the Tynemouth hubble-bubble that appeared to be my family!
I did wonder if her accent may have led the enumerator to write Dorrinton.
Anne
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Yes, sometimes things get muddled up. Nothing to do with your case, Anne, but I have a case of this, only it was at a registry office.
After all his trials and name changes with his mother, the dreaded Eliza Ann, Walter George Harmsworth Moore ended up leaving Portsmouth for Reading.
His death there is reported by his brother in law, who must have been a Reading man through and through, Walter George Armsworth Moore. I presume the H was buried with him. ;)
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They had accents? :D ;)?
Was quite surprised to hear that Ugham was said Uffim...but apparently the name Maughan was also to have been said...Muffin!!! J.J.
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the place name was ULGHAM... with the letter L silent.
The surname STRAUGHAN commonly pronounced like
" straw-'n ".
But in my part of Northumberland it said like
" straffen"
Michael
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oops orry, have seen it spelled both ways, though... ;D
Hubby's genealogy so that's my excuse! J.J.
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JJ, I was not really correcting your spelling ( on the subject I am bottom, rather than top of the class). I was sort of adding to the debate on accents/pronunciation
I was born close to Cambois , pron. "cam'is! Enuff.. Michael
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And then there's Cowpen pronounced Coopin!
Maughan=Maffin
Bothal Demesne=Bothal Demane
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Ah....
Anne , you cannot blame us Northumbrians for the "demane" one.... I think all England say demane...
....Norman French pronunciation !
Tricky Micky
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Although it is in Co. Durham I am partial to Witton Gilbert pronounced Witton Jill-bert
Thanks for the Demesne one so I don't pronounce it wrong. I usually manage to learn the pronunciation of a place on each visit I make to England (by mangling it the first time).
When the miners from Northumberland went to Pennsylvania USA they made their own town called Cowpen but ended up being spelled Coupon.
Janis
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Janis,
Not heard of the Pennsylvanian COWPEN/COUPON connection before... but sure like it...... mainly because I
( and lots of others) pronounce the placename COWPEN ,the same as I do the word for the thingie you cut out of a newspaper for offers/discounts... COUPON.
But many others will prounce "coupon" a la mode francais..
coo'po... with emphasis at the begiining and half a nasal "n" at the end.
Trivia Angle.... Cowpen seemingly got it's name from
" coops" or "cowps", names for wicker baskets that were used to catch fish in the River Blyth.
Less romantic root than what my parish priest told his parishioners , when I was a child... " Cowpen named after Copenhagen"
Enough already,
Sick Mick... did I start this, or was it that Spanish lass , Habanero ?