pea farm towlaw

[lila]

thanks everyone for you help im afraid im going of what my gran told my mother about visiting her grandmother in towlaw/tantobie on the peafarm i have no other info and no one to ask now apart from my mother i do know that john william vickers was born approx 1873 i dint know what day or month he dies 9 10 45 and married for the second time to hannah iasbell thompson in 1909 april/may/june this is my great gran just thought if i could find the elusive pea farm i might not be hitting my head againt brick wall my gran also said he had two sons from previous marrage one of them being called john who died in first world war aged 21 but i cant find anything about that either thanks for the help tho     lila

[t_creaney]

Lila... Before you give up maybe you could post a message on the Annfield Plain Family History website, you might just find somebody there with the right local knowledge.

Here is the site: http://www.annfieldplainfhs.org.uk/

Good luck

terry

[lila]

almost forgot i know for a fact that they were living at john st no place durham in 1906 thanks lila

[lila]

thanks terry i will do

[Rewcastle]

Lila,

You've got a lot to go off. 

It's more than likely that it is Pea Farm, Oxhill, Stanley. Due to them living in Noplace.
Noplace is just East of Stanley between Stanley and Beamish (where the open air museum is)
Pea Farm is on the West side of Stanley, just down the hill (2 or 3 fields) north of the main road.

From a planning application, march this year, is is Wards that have the farm.
A few years ago i was speaking to the woman whose husband had the farm, can't remember what the name was, but they also had the carpet place inside Stanley old market.
 (They may be related to the Vickers, i.e. farm handed down).

The main registry office for Births, Marriages and Deaths for Derwentside District is in Stanley.

John who died in the 1st World War, If he lived in the Stanley area, They usually had a photo in the local paper and the Newcaste Journal for soldiers that died.

p.s. if you get his death certificate it should tell you more info + his age, also there might be something in the local paper.

Regards
Rewcastle

[lila]

thank you so much looks like i might find my ggrandads family
now lila

[Wearsider]

Hi - regarding a 'pea farm' at Tow Law, I can recall that in the 1940s and 50s my relations had a farm at Tow Law and part of that was operated as a market garden and it grew two or three acres of peas but it was not called a pea farm however.

Regarding the Vickers famiies at Tow Law, my father was born at Tow Law and his father was John Vickers who was born at Sadberge and there is no relationship with the Wolsingham Vickers families.

Alan Vickers.

[lila]

hi alan   fournd out a bit more since i posted about pea farm my  john william vickers born 1874 father was joseph vickers mother jane raey gladders dont know if these names mean anything to you    lila

[Wearsider]

Thanks Lila, unfortunately they are not my ancestors.

Alan.