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Thank you Neale1961. That was brilliant.

Apology first for the wrong abbreviation for Simon Perrott. I meant to write 'bur' not 'b'. I hadn't found his birth in Aldsworth because (for various reasons) I'm working from the Bishop's Transcripts. Aldsworth is missing 1744. Interestingly the Bishop's Transcripts for Northleach show no William Parrott baptised in 1781. There's a William baptised in 1780 (December 17) and a Mary baptised in 1783 (February 23) but I find no Parrott on what is obviously a continuous transcript for the whole of 1781.

So the Parrotts living in 1841 at Winterwell Cottage, Northleach, were first cousins. Thomas, born 1779, says something interesting about the descriptions used in the early censuses. The 1841 census (if I remember correctly) describes him (then unmarried) as a farmer. However, in the 1851 census, by which time he was retired, he is described simply as an agricultural labourer. He is also given then as a widower. He evidently married an Ann Price in 1845, who was a recent widow of a Robert Price, also an agricultural labourer. Like Thomas, Robert was also about 20 years her senior. She died in 1849 and he (Thomas) lived on until 1854 with only a housekeeper. I'd always thought (perhaps not unreasonably) that the men referred to on those early census returns as 'Agricultural Labourers' - this includes many of my forebears - were poor folk. But evidently some of them must have had enough resources to attract new wives, to accommodate relatives, and to keep household servants. Describing Thomas as an agricultural labourer might have been doing him an injustice, particularly when you look at the quality of his headstone.

Now back to the records....

I'm researching the Parrott family from about 4-6 generations ago (mid 18th century to mid 19th century), centred in Gloucestershire. The problem I'm getting is the great variety of spellings. There were also a lot of Parrotts there. A veritable flock! Often-repeated first names are Simon (or Simeon), Thomas, William, Edith, Sarah, Esther, Mary and Catherine.
All help, and any links, will be greatly appreciated

I'm looking for indications as to where two streets were in Sunderland:

1) Old Row: this is recorded on the 1851 census as being in All Saints Ecclesiastical District, Monkwearmouth

2) Cliff Terrace: this is recorded on the 1881 census as being in St Barnabas Ecclesiastical District, Bishopwearmouth

AIGR (All information gratefully received)

John

Dear Brian

Thank you so much!

The attached oblique aerial shot from 1928 shows that the southern part of Hodgson's Buildings had already been demolished by then.

You're obviously a Sunderland man, so do you have any idea where Westcott Terrace was? My grandmother, Mary Ellen Miller, was living there at the time of her marriage to Charles William Saunders (1902). It was evidently demolished early too, as there is no record of it on the 1956 street index.

AIGR

John