Has anyone found family links to Tanfield?

[McTalbert]

The information I gave on the WILSONS came from Tanfield Parish Registers.

Tanfield is an ancient parish well over 1,000 years old.

Burnopfield is an ancient village lying about one mile north of Tanfield village.  It fell within Tanfield Parish until 1873 when it became a parish in its own right.

Sheep Hill lies within the village of Burnopfield.

McTalbert

[Bermudagirl]

Thanks so much! Still can't get the birth details to tie up with FreeBDM, but never mind.

Pat

[Malcolm33]

 Having browsed through the 6 pages of this forum on Tanfield I am a little surprised that none of my Tanfield people are there, namely Elizabeth Moslin, William Oliver and Mary Lumley.    I've come to a full stop on all of these.  Cany anyone help?     I do see some 'Smiles' and my cousin Olive Draffan was married to a Smiles.    Her son is or was a Captain with British Airways and got a write up in the papers when he flew the England team to Germany one year.

[McTalbert]

MOSLIN/MOSLING, OLIVER etc.

There are quite a few references in the Parish Registers.

What exactly do you want to know i.e. time period etc?

[Malcolm33]

MOSLIN/MOSLING, OLIVER etc.

There are quite a few references in the Parish Registers.
What exactly do you want to know i.e. time period etc?

     I am mainly looking for the origins of Elizabeth MOSLIN who married William OLIVER in 1816 at Tanfield.    She was probably the child of another Elizabeth MOSLIN baptised in Tanfield on 27 March 1791 but no father is mentioned in Family Search.

     William and Elizabeth Oliver pop up in Gateshead with the birth of a son William born 3 December 1819, baptised 16 January 1820 where William is described as a Waggonman.  We then find the baptism of dtr. Elizabeth - my great great grandmother on 10 June 1827 at Chartershaugh and William is still a Waggonman.    Next a son John was baptised 23 May 1830 at Harraton and William still a Waggonman.     I haven't found them in the 1841 census though Family Search mentions their names and birthdates in Bishopwearmouth and South Shields.    In 1851 mother Elizabeth aged 64 is at 8 Hopper Street Bishopwearmouth with her dtr Elizabeth aged 24 but now surnamed Fullwood.    In that same census of 1841 Richard and Margaret Oliver are next door at No.7 Hopper Street.   These are two different Oliver families but Margaret Oliver and Emmanuel Fullwood both died and then Richard widower married Elizabeth widow, so an Oliver married an Oliver.
   I am focussing on Elizabeth Moslin now because she is in my maternal line and my mitochondrial dna has been tested and found to be T2b.

[annettethorne]

My research has just led me to a family named HANDCOCK of Tanfield. George Handcock married Mary MOORE in the Chapelry of Tanfield on 19 May 1806. Baptism records show that they had 4 children baptised in St Margaret of Antioch - Ann (1806-1807), Ann 1808, George 1813 and Sarah 1816. 
Census records indicate that George (snr) was born abt 1762 but I am unable to find any birth details for him in Durham.  I believe that HANCOCKS had ownership of land at High Friarside from the mid 1600's to the mid 1700's.  Can anyone help with further details of George b1762 please?
My husband is a direct ancestor of Sarah Handcock (youngest child) who married James Ridley in 1847 and then immigrated to Australia abt 1848/9.  I have no early details on James RIDLEY b about 1821 either if anyone knows anything about the Ridleys in this region at the time.