Ushaw Moor Memories

There was an Isabella Holliday [aged16] living in the Hill Top area near Ushaw Moor in 1901. She was in the household of Mr John Seed and Mrs Agnes Seed.
 
David Turner [aged 18 in 1901]was a coal miner [putter] living as a boarder in Mr and Mrs Walker’s household in South View.
 
John S Vasey [aged 25 in 1901] was a boarder at 7 Albert Street - in the household of Mr George Walker and Mrs Walker.
 
George Vasey and his wife Sarah lived at 8 South Street together with their daughters  Florence, Martha and Elizabeth.
 
I am sorry that I cannot help further.
 
Wilf Bell

Just when you think the memories site has died or gone into a coma up pops someone who is delighted to see a bit of information about a relative – that makes it all worthwhile and has brought me briefly back on to the site.

Mr Brian Conway is asking for any information about Thomas Conroy who is mentioned in the article published on 13/09/2007. According to the Census enumerator he lived at 13 East Terrace Ushaw Moor in 1901 with his wife Elizabeth and two daughters: Elizabeth who was eight years old at the time and Eliza who was one year old. Thomas was a Deputy at the pit and 40 years of age. The 1901 Census seems to suggest that he was born in Lanchester but there is a significant probability that there was a transcription error by the 1901 Census enumerator regarding his place of birth. I think that he was born in Wigan, Lancashire. I base that on the fact that there is a Thomas Conroy, aged 30, shown on the 1891 census as born in Wigan and living in Ushaw Moor as a boarder with a widow Matilda Pletts. Mrs Pletts was a retired cook so I am confident that Thomas Conroy was well fed during his stay with her! Within the 1891 household we also had Mrs Plett’s son, James [blacksmith] and two other boarders George Browning [stationary engineman aged 29] and Nicholas Ogg [aged 22 occupation - mason]. Regarding Mr Conroy I note that Lanchester and Lancashire are wide open to an error by a tired enumerator – no doubt they had a lot of work to do for very little financial reward!

I sometimes wonder at the work and handwriting of the Victorian enumerators – Ogg? Was it perhaps Hogg in reality? Plett? Possibly but I would not gamble against it being Platt!

There is a Thomas Conroy shown on the 1881 Census as a boarder living in Hunwick [Lane Ends] and employed as a miner. He was born in Lancashire. The potential problem with that is that he is shown as born in 1859 which is slightly out. Still one wonders.

Wilf Bell