Black Horse, County Durham

[AllanUK]

Thank you for the update.

[jonwarrn]

Her father does appear to be John Kirtley.

There are a few others born Black Horse, Durham, those I've found for sure so far appear to come from Tudhoe. The colliery there seems to have been known as Black Horse Colliery for a time.
There may have been a Black Horse Inn there as well.
But would she really give an inn as her birthplace, as she does in 1901 and 1911?

Confused by John's age in the 1881 transcript
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/7572/records/4024051

But here he is age 17 in Whitworth in 1861, born Byers Green, occupation Mason.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7C1-BKD

In 1871 he is married to Jane, and living in Tudhoe
They have a 1 month old daughter, but her name is Jane, born Byers Green
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5902fcd7e9379091b1252175

[AlanBoyd]

Landlords from 1851-1873 (at least) were the Jackson family  but she may have been the child of a servant there.

An earlier sighting of a Jackson at Black Horse?, perhaps a little odd that it doesn’t say ‘inn’ or ‘house of’…

22 November 1828: Newcastle Courant

FOUND, on Saturday the 15th inst. at Beamish, a large Brown and White NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. The Owner may have him again on paying all reasonable Charges, by applying to John Jackson, Black Horse, Beamish. If not claimed in a few Days after this Notice, he will be sold to defray the Expence of his Keep.

[AlanBoyd]

Tanfield, tithe records of 1847, at the position of Red Row on later maps:

owner John Eden Esq.; occupiers, Francis Jackson and others: "Cottages garth and ground formerly part of Blackburn Fell"

[jonwarrn]

Isabella with Parents GEORGE/Jane is with them 1881 Census born c 1873 Lanchester

Trish has ruled out the Tanfield baptism.

There is no evidence that Isabella born Black Horse was from the village of Causey, from Tanfield, or even really that she was born at an inn

In 1911 Isabella says she was born Black Horse near (nr is inserted) Durham.
Meanwhile, John is supposed to be married according to the 1881, but he remarried in June quarter 1881 to Isabella Renison.

[Elliven]

Black Horse is the pub.  The street of houses in which it stands is Red Row and the whole area is, or rather was, Causey Village in the parish of Tanfield.

Causey village was one of the oldest villages in County Durham but all of the oldest buildings were demolished to make way for the new road.  They were declared unfit for human habitation but that may have been a politically motivated decision to ease the building of the new road which was a long fairly straight and wide road through from Stanley to Newcastle.  The old road was a tortuous, winding narrow lane which became impassable during the winter snow as it was very hilly, whereas the new road was flat.  Snow ploughs were often stuck on the old road but the new one was easily cleared and ensured that traffic could get through to Newcastle.

Both roads are still there and are known locally as the New Road and the Old Road - even though the "new" one is now nearly 90 years old!

Way back in the 1980s, the landlady told me that the pub had been run on a very casual basis and the pub was not even properly licensed in the early 1800's but she did not know the name of the landlord who finally organised it properly.  But he did it to capture some of the trade from the nearby Causey Arch Inn.

[jonwarrn]

This is the pub...

There is a Black Horse Inn still open at Spennymoor.

The Black Horse Inn in Tudhoe / Spennymoor
There was a Black Horse Farm there.
Then a colliery, known at the time as the Black Horse Colliery
The Black Horse Inn dates back to the same time as the colliery, opened in the 1860's

John Kirtley was living at Tudhoe Colliery in the 1871 census.
I don't know what happened to his wife Jane.
There seems to be no birth registration for the daughter Jane, age 1 month in that census (nor has a baptism been found)
Her age pretty much matches Isabella's age in the 1921 census, 50 years and four months.
I guess John and his wife settled on Isabella for her name, rather than Jane.