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Title: fighting cocks
Post by: ainsley on Saturday 17 July 10 21:10 BST (UK)
Hi could any of you nice rootschatters tell me is Fighting Cocks just the name of a pub or is it an area in Durham. I have a great great grandfather & his sister using it as birth place on census records. Tried googling it n just came up with 2 pubs.

Cheers ainsley :)


(within the durham area tht is)
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: Hackstaple on Saturday 17 July 10 21:18 BST (UK)
My Cassels Gazetteer - 1883 says

Fighting Cocks, hamlet with railway station, parish of Low Dinsdale and Middleton St. George. SE Durham, 4 miles SE of Darlington.
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: JenB on Saturday 17 July 10 21:23 BST (UK)
The Durham record office place-name index shows it in the Parish of Middleton St George.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/097m/
Click on the Parish name for a general location map.

Jennifer
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: JenB on Saturday 17 July 10 21:29 BST (UK)
There were about 18 households at Fighting Cocks in the 1881 census, and about 75 in 1891. Many of them worked in the nearby ironworks

Jennifer
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: stanmapstone on Saturday 17 July 10 21:40 BST (UK)
Go to http://gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/viewer.htm and put the post code DL2 1JS in search. This will centre the map on Fighting Cocks on the 1856-65 map

Stan
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: JenB on Saturday 17 July 10 21:40 BST (UK)
Here's the railway station Hackstaple referred to  :D
http://www.rootschat.com/links/097n/

Seems the name came from the local 'squire' Henry Cocks.
http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2004/1/14/65050.html
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: stanmapstone on Saturday 17 July 10 21:46 BST (UK)
At Fighting Cocks there are ironworks; also the gasworks for Middleton and Dinsdale.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42633
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: ainsley on Saturday 17 July 10 21:50 BST (UK)
Thnx Hackstaple, Stan & Jen,

Jen is there any families with the surname French there in 1881 or 91?

ainsley :)
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: JenB on Saturday 17 July 10 21:55 BST (UK)
Quote from: ainsley on Saturday 17 July 10 21:50 BST (UK)
Jen is there any families with the surname French there in 1881 or 91?

Sorry, can't see any.

Jennifer
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: ainsley on Saturday 17 July 10 22:00 BST (UK)
Thanx Jen,

Worth the try, my family where in Middlesbrough by then, but they used fighting cocks as their birth places, just wondered if it was because they had family there. Thanx again

ainsley :)
Title: Middleton St george Wireworks
Post by: dickobrien on Saturday 31 July 10 11:38 BST (UK)
Hi does anyone know anything about the Wireworks at Middleton St george, I have an ancestor lived in Fighting Cocks Row Dinsdale who worked there
Thanks

Dick O'Brien

Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: Hibee on Saturday 31 July 10 13:18 BST (UK)
I worked on processing ruturns from the 1971 Census, and can confirm that Fighting Cocks still existed as a placename then.

Hibee
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: dickobrien on Sunday 01 August 10 11:24 BST (UK)
Hi many thanks

dick O'brien
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: Geordie Mag on Monday 02 August 10 21:59 BST (UK)
"The Durham Record" website, run by the County Council, will have photos of the area. I know that the pub was used as a booking office for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, when that first opened in 1825 (there weren't any stations built in time for the opening.) The remains of the later station, in use up to the 1880s, I think, are nearby.
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 02 August 10 22:39 BST (UK)
Quote from: Geordie Mag on Monday 02 August 10 21:59 BST (UK)
"The Durham Record" website, run by the County Council, will have photos of the area.

See http://ww2.durham.gov.uk/dre/pgDre.aspx?&SEARCH=Search&TERM=fighting+cocks

Stan
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: dickobrien on Saturday 18 September 10 18:41 BST (UK)
Hi there was a Fighting Cocks Row, part of Dinsdale in the Durham area.

Regards,

Dick O'Brien
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: NEILKE on Sunday 19 September 10 15:06 BST (UK)
another was  at the bottom of the bank at chester le street heading from sunderland neil
Title: Re: fighting cocks
Post by: diddymiller on Tuesday 19 October 10 19:03 BST (UK)
Hi,just found this thread whilst googling the fighting cocks.
i have ancestor:

Thomas James Legg b 1855 Barton Yorks.
1891c /1901c living in Fighting cocks as a Joiner
1911c  house joiner & publican with 2 daughters assisting in pub duties

my Legg family for many years were in the area mainly as farmers.

Diddy