Searching for Redshaw roots

[totally leics]

Hi folks,

       I'm looking for a bit more info, but fortunately have more background this time. Have traced Chatham Redshaw (born Elsdon 1833) to Turkshead Yard, Alnwick with his wife Jane (born North Sunderland c1846) and family in 1881. I cannot, however, find his marriage which surprises me given his first name. Also is Turkshead Yard still in existence does anybody know? Any info gratefully received.

                                                   TL

[Michael Dixon]

 Marriage Registration June Qtr 1861 : Rothbury Reg District ( in which Elsdon lay)  Jonathon Redshaw m. Jane Armstrong.

 The clue that his name was not Chatham was the fact that he only showed up on one census (1881) as Chatham.

Michael Dixon

[Ruskie]

TL, Do you have Chatham in any other censuses?

Reason I ask is that I found the family in 1881 but couldn't see Chatham on the image because I read his first name as Jonathan.  

I may be completely wrong here. He is transcribed as Chatham.

Can someone else please have a look - maybe I'm seeing things.  

Oh Michael you beat me to it. 

[Ruskie]

I originally thought that 1861 marriage may have been too early, but it looks like Jane might have been a child bride. 

[totally leics]

Thanks Michael and Ruskie,

                      Sounds like Jane was in domestic service if she was married so young and a fair way north of Sunderland, or maybe I'm just creating my own storyline here!

                       Wonder how the Chatham bit got in there?Still intrigued by the 1881 address, almost sounds like a pub name.
                                     TL

                               

[Ruskie]

Someone has mistranscribed the name Jonathan - they obviously thought they saw Chatham.    Can't see it myself ...

Michael might know something about Turkshead Yard. A Google search throws very little up. My guess is that it'll be long gone ...

[Michael Dixon]

TL,

It is a Pub, look higher up the page on C1881. Bondgate was/is one of main streets of Alnwick. The Turks Head was on Bondgate. Turks Head Yard would have been a yard thru to the back of the pub, with a few residences.

Sunderland was in County Durham. Jane was born in North Sunderland, in the county of Northumberland.


 I don't understand your logic about "in domestic service". Why not track her through the censuses to see !

Michael

[Michael Dixon]

 C1871 has her born a year earlier than the c1881.  MD

[sallylynne]

hello,
I think the name chatham was just wrongly transcribed. It looks like Jonathan in the 1881 census to me.
the 1871 census Biddlestone,
 ( RG 10/ 5196) shows
Jonathan and Jane age 26 with children
Andrew 9
ann 4
Adam 3
Eleanor 2
that would make her 17 when her first child was born in 1872, I think.
Sally