fighting cocks

[ainsley]

Thanx Jen,

Worth the try, my family where in Middlesbrough by then, but they used fighting cocks as their birth places, just wondered if it was because they had family there. Thanx again

ainsley

[dickobrien]

Hi does anyone know anything about the Wireworks at Middleton St george, I have an ancestor lived in Fighting Cocks Row Dinsdale who worked there
Thanks

Dick O'Brien

[Hibee]

I worked on processing ruturns from the 1971 Census, and can confirm that Fighting Cocks still existed as a placename then.

Hibee

[dickobrien]

Hi many thanks

dick O'brien

[Geordie Mag]

"The Durham Record" website, run by the County Council, will have photos of the area. I know that the pub was used as a booking office for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, when that first opened in 1825 (there weren't any stations built in time for the opening.) The remains of the later station, in use up to the 1880s, I think, are nearby.

[stanmapstone]

"The Durham Record" website, run by the County Council, will have photos of the area.

See http://ww2.durham.gov.uk/dre/pgDre.aspx?&SEARCH=Search&TERM=fighting+cocks

Stan

[dickobrien]

Hi there was a Fighting Cocks Row, part of Dinsdale in the Durham area.

Regards,

Dick O'Brien

[NEILKE]

another was  at the bottom of the bank at chester le street heading from sunderland neil

[diddymiller]

Hi,just found this thread whilst googling the fighting cocks.
i have ancestor:

Thomas James Legg b 1855 Barton Yorks.
1891c /1901c living in Fighting cocks as a Joiner
1911c  house joiner & publican with 2 daughters assisting in pub duties

my Legg family for many years were in the area mainly as farmers.

Diddy