Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - bejaysunny

Pages: [1]
1
Cumberland / Re: Ratten Row, Dearham, Cumberland
« on: Monday 29 April 13 05:43 BST (UK)  »
What a goldmine of information! A few of us have just started meeting at the Sun Inn, 4pm Thursdays, to pool information on Dearham's heritage and this personal knowledge is an answer to prayer! We will be looking at very old maps this week and trying to identify locations - we would love you to join us if you can, or contact me to share more information. I know some youngsters who would love to know about life 'in the olden days' and It would be great to get them connected! I am very interested in the books you mention, but more than anything it is personal recollection that gives a real flavour of the past.

2
Cumberland / Re: Ratten Row, Dearham, Cumberland
« on: Monday 19 November 12 16:00 GMT (UK)  »
An afterthought, have you searched McIlroy, MacIlroy, Macilroy, all names I encountered whilst living in Scotland.
bajaysunny

3
Cumberland / Re: Ratten Row, Dearham, Cumberland
« on: Monday 19 November 12 15:57 GMT (UK)  »
No Prouds or Muckleroys on any of the legible inscriptions, Im afraid. I am hoping to get the village on board to hold a heritage weekend during 2013, currently just chatting the idea around. One friend lives in a tiny terraced house, probably built ss a miners dwelling, and at the 1901 census it was home to a widow with four daughters, a young teen son who was a miner, and a lodger. It has two small bedrooms, and one of the two downstairs rooms was used as a shop! The terrace is in one of the areas suggested for Ratten Row.
bejaysunny

4
Cumberland / Re: Ratten Row, Dearham, Cumberland
« on: Sunday 18 November 12 09:31 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Connie from OZ on Friday 15 June 12 08:10 BST (UK)
I am researching the family of Richard and Eleanor Proud who appear in censuses as living in Ratten Row , Dearham. I also would dearly like to know more about this address. My great-great-grandparents  Faulder and Nancy Proud migrated to Gympie in Qld, Australia in the 1860's with their entire large family.
I have visited modern-day Dearham and love the old Anglican Church but would love to know more about it. the Prouds appear on all the censuses back to 1841 but I don't know much about what it was like then. They were miners and were also said to have been potters. Before that I think they would have been poor farmers. 
Connie from Oz         

Connie, I think you may have contacted me by email some time ago about Graves in St. Mungos churchyard. Have you discovered cumbriaroots.uk? This has Bishops Transcript, recording BMD and baptisms from 1663-1837 and sveral Proud(e)s are recorded. Thses records often include occupations or even 'a poor man' etc.

5
Cumberland / Re: Ratten Row, Dearham, Cumberland
« on: Sunday 18 November 12 07:47 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: StephenU on Thursday 05 July 12 11:54 BST (UK)
Not sure if it helps, but I have a relative who lived in Rotten Row Dearham in the 1841 and 1851 censuses - in the 1861 census after she was married her birth place was given as Greengill - which if you look on Google Maps is between Dearham and Gilcrux.  On the subject of Dearham does anyone know if there any records of churchyard inscriptions anywhere on line?
This is my first time on this (or any other) chat site, so please bear with me!
I dont think Dearham gravestone inscriptions are on line, but I have access to a hard copy. Not sure I should be saying this publicly as I may be inundated with requests and am rather busy at the moment! However, I am grateful to find information from those who have been researching Dearham longer than I have, so fair exchange!

Pages: [1]