Help! Where is/was Thorp

[SooCatt]

Hello everybody
My GGGG Grandfather was born in Durham, Thorp at least that is what it says on the 51,61 and 71 cencus.

Problem is I can't find a Thorp anywhere.  I have looked on the old faithful Genuki parish list and I've looked on streetmap.co.uk. I've even tried AA routefinder (can't look in the good old atlas as my husband has it in the car somewhere in the Midlands).

The family are from around the Brancepeth/Tudhoe area.

Do any of you know if there is or was a Thorp in that vicinity.  I would like to be able to pin him down.

Be glad to hear any of your ideas.

Ta

Susan

[mim]

There is/was a place named Thorpe near Easington village.

Also further south of the county near Stockton there is Thorpe Thewles & Thorpe Larches.

Don't know if this is of any help?

[Headbanger Veron]

Hi

I don't know if this is any help but here goes. I live in Durham and I've never heard of anywhere round here called Thorp. However - in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses there is an enumeration district called Thorp(e) Bulmer. In the 1881 census it isn't there any more as a separate district but it's near Hart village, i.e. the old bit of Hartlepool. This isn't in County Durham any more but the boundaries have changed significantly in the last 130 years!

I wonder whether people born there simply called it Thorp. Just a thought.

Cheers Veron

[SooCatt]

Thanks for looking.  I'm pretty sure the gentleman concerned is from around the Speenymoor area so I'm beginning to think it was just the name of a farm or maybe a hall somewhere in that area.

I'll track him down eventually and I'm sure all will become clear....well as clear as anythign becomes in family history anyway!

Thanks again

Susan

[Crisrbow]

Don't know if it will help but there was until about 30 years ago a maternity hospital near Easington Lane called Thorpe.
I notice you are researching Cook - my Cooks were from West Herrington - could there be a link?

Cris

[Adamand]

Hello Susan. If the  information on the 1861 was RG9 3695 folio's 102--107
in the township of Grindon   then it is the Thorp on the road from Stockton on tees to Sedgefield. If you post the GGG's surname I can confirm it on the 1861 census that I have. Adamand

[aitnax]

Susan Thorpe is sometimes know as Thorpe thewles its only a small village and its near Grindon  Regards Dave

[SooCatt]

Thanks everyone.
Wm Pinkney appears on all cencuses in Tudhoe near Durham and was married in Brancepeth.  Since first posting this message I have found a baptism that fits in Chester-le-Street, though I haven't yet been able to check the actual entry. So I'm still thinking that there must have been a place called Thorpe somewhere in that vicinity once upon a time - very frustrating to not know though.


Susan

[Mark Smith]

Hi

I'm a member of Thorpe Thewles History Group and can confirm that Thorpe Thewles near Stockton-on-Tees was officially known and recorded up to around 1900 as Thorp Thewles or just Thorp.

I have searched our records and have found Pinkney's in Grindon Parish Baptism records and in a couple of census returns. The village also has a strong connection with Brancepeth via the Boyne Family who where a major land holder in the village.

Why not post your request on our history group's web site Forum and I'll ensure we will get back to you with all the information we have in our records.

Mark
(www.thorpe-thewles.org.uk)