Info needed on if there was a Sheldon Hale town in Durham

[sheenaj]

Looking for this Sheldon Hale or something the sounds like this in Durham around 1815.
My Husband had an ancestor -William James Taylor supposedly born there in 1815. We do not know parents names. He emigrated to Nova Scotia Canada 1831.Was known there a Captain William James Taylor and long life as a mariner in area,.He married an Isabella Baxter, born in Lincoln. England,- we have her info but he is not easy to find.She moved to Ontario area earlier than him with her family. and married William in Ontario .Ca.
Family insist he was born in this' Sheldon Hale' but I cannot find it.. Can someone help? Thanks.

[KGarrad]

You've posted this on the Lancashire board

I will ask a mod to move it to the County Durham board.


Topic moved.

[KGarrad]

There is a Shildon, part of the parish of Auckland St Andrew, in Co. Durham.

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DUR/AucklandStAndrew

[stanmapstone]

There is Sheddon's Hill https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=54.91227&lon=-1.56231&layers=168&right=BingHyb

Stan

[stanmapstone]

You can see on this map that the area was called Shaddon's Hill
https://maps.nls.uk/view/102341479#zoom=5&lat=2717&lon=3871&layers=BT


Stan

[stanmapstone]

Just to add that the Character of the Writing for Shaddon's Hill on the map seems to be that used for villages.
See https://maps.nls.uk/view/128076795

Stan

[sheenaj]

Stan ,thank you so much for that info. We now have an area to look at and hopefully answers to our question. I will confer with our other researcher and hopefully can figure this out. I think it more likely Shildon is the place we need to look into.
Sheena

[durhamgirl73]

Durham Records Online has a baptism for a William John Taylor 1814 birthplace/abode Shildon

[Millmoor]

This is the likely Bishop's Transcript of the baptism identified by durhamgirl.https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6L24-5GY?i=430&cc=1309819&cat=1808387