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Quote from: Connie from OZ on Monday 19 November 12 16:05 GMT (UK)

No, they were Muckleroys. Father Patrick , mother Elizabeth Fulton. Nancy Muckleroy was born in Ireland and had a thick Irish accent. Thanks anyway.

Was the question of Rotton row ever resolved? I have lived here all my life and am sure Rotton row was the row of back to back houses immediately after outgang garden center. My gggfand his family lived in outgang cottages for a while in the mid to late1800s. Lister was their surname. I can remember as a kid a couple of the old cottages still standing. This is now Laws garden center. Providence place is the name of a small row of cottages set back from the road and is just below where I currently live which was locally known as Sandham row as it was opposite Sandhams bakery on the cobbles,as were many terraces. 20 row as someone mentioned is actually Londsdale terrace opposite the old folks bungalows at commercial corner.Most of the houses on maryport road date from the early 1900s. the three on the corner opposite commercial were built first then our row in 1854 then providence place. Any one wanting a brief history of Dearhamshould read the books written by someone called his surname is WinterI will see if I can find what they are called, but I have read them and it is ammazing to see Dearhams varied history

at that time there would only be two pits still working in dearham, the birkby coal mine(Dearham drifts) closed 1950. and the scheme pit which later became a cooperative. Just because your relative lived in dearham does not mean he worked in Dearham. my own grandfather lived in dearham as did all the family, but he used to walk to Clifton pit each day, at least 5 miles as the crow flies from dearham. Probably why there are so many footpaths across the fields.