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Offline ainsley

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fighting cocks
« on: Saturday 17 July 10 21:10 BST (UK) »
Hi could any of you nice rootschatters tell me is Fighting Cocks just the name of a pub or is it an area in Durham. I have a great great grandfather & his sister using it as birth place on census records. Tried googling it n just came up with 2 pubs.

Cheers ainsley :)


(within the durham area tht is)

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Re: fighting cocks
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 17 July 10 21:18 BST (UK) »
My Cassels Gazetteer - 1883 says

Fighting Cocks, hamlet with railway station, parish of Low Dinsdale and Middleton St. George. SE Durham, 4 miles SE of Darlington.
Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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Re: fighting cocks
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 17 July 10 21:23 BST (UK) »
The Durham record office place-name index shows it in the Parish of Middleton St George.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/097m/
Click on the Parish name for a general location map.

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Re: fighting cocks
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 17 July 10 21:29 BST (UK) »
There were about 18 households at Fighting Cocks in the 1881 census, and about 75 in 1891. Many of them worked in the nearby ironworks

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Re: fighting cocks
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 17 July 10 21:40 BST (UK) »
Go to http://gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/viewer.htm and put the post code DL2 1JS in search. This will centre the map on Fighting Cocks on the 1856-65 map

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Re: fighting cocks
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 17 July 10 21:40 BST (UK) »
Here's the railway station Hackstaple referred to  :D
http://www.rootschat.com/links/097n/

Seems the name came from the local 'squire' Henry Cocks.
http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2004/1/14/65050.html
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Re: fighting cocks
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 17 July 10 21:46 BST (UK) »
At Fighting Cocks there are ironworks; also the gasworks for Middleton and Dinsdale.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42633
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Re: fighting cocks
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 17 July 10 21:50 BST (UK) »
Thnx Hackstaple, Stan & Jen,

Jen is there any families with the surname French there in 1881 or 91?

ainsley :)

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Re: fighting cocks
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 17 July 10 21:55 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ainsley on Saturday 17 July 10 21:50 BST (UK)
Jen is there any families with the surname French there in 1881 or 91?

Sorry, can't see any.

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