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Durham / Re: Hetton Le Hole Pub
« on: Sunday 13 September 09 10:36 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Stan, I guess the writing on the form was not very clear and the mistranscription explains why I wasn't able to find it myself.  It's definitely the right family though, as John Cram his wife and their older children are in the 1841 census too, but he is a full-time miner and not a part-time publican then.

Tom

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Durham / Re: Hetton Le Hole Pub
« on: Saturday 12 September 09 21:31 BST (UK)  »
Someone kindly looked in the 1851 census for me to find my ancestor John Cramm (usually spelt Cram) as publican and coal miner, Public House, Brickgarth, Easington Lane.  Along with his wife Sarah and 7 children.  I didn't get any information about which pub though.

Tom Swailes

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Durham / Re: "Cornwall" - A Durham Mining Village
« on: Thursday 10 September 09 12:06 BST (UK)  »
Very interesting to know that it was at least semi-officially Cornwall in the 1881 census; and to see Annfield Place on the old map too.

Tom

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Durham / "Cornwall" - A Durham Mining Village
« on: Thursday 10 September 09 11:01 BST (UK)  »
My dad lived the first 14 years of his life, 1912-1926, at a place officially called Annfield Place I think, but which the locals called 'Cornwall', a miners village purpose-built around the 1860s.    The name reflected the origins of the first occupants, long gone by the time my dad's family moved in.  Annfield Plain covered a rather bigger area than Annfield Place, and when we visited Beamish Museum dad said the Coop shop relocated there had been the Annfield Plain Coop where his mam shopped.

Dad left Durham in 1926, and returned on his bike about 3 years later to find the old village cleared.  In retirement he wrote and illustrated with drawings and location maps an account of 'Cornwall'.  It's on the internet at:

http://cornwall-in-durham.blogspot.com/

Tom Swailes

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Durham / Re: Irish in Co Durham - 1911 census found useful
« on: Thursday 10 September 09 10:51 BST (UK)  »
Where exactly in County Tyrone my great grandparents came from was a mystery, until I found from the 1911 census that my great grandmother Dorothy Glasgow put her birthplace as Oritor Craigs, a townland in County Tyrone, near Cookstown.

My Irish born great grandfather William Swailes died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1908, so no 1911 information for him.  The family legend passed down to my dad (died 1992) and my aunt (still full of life) was that their grandad William came from Cookstown and had a pony and trap, and that the pony knew its way home from the pub.  Not much of an Irish legacy perhaps, but my dad's numerous uncles were all hard working Co. Durham miners.  Dad said they 'signed the pledge'.

Tom Swailes



       

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