Hi Tom Are you sure you have the correct Percy in the 1911 Census? There is a Percy Stephenson 22 coal miner living at 11 Shepherd St Sunderland with wife Mary Ann 21 and son Thomas 6 months. They are living with Mary's widowed father Thomas William Davison 42 and her siblings Bella 13 and John Carr 9. Ref RG14/30162/RD555/SD1/ED19/SN284 Regards Eileen From: eng-dur-sunderland-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-dur-sunderland-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of eng-dur-sunderland-request@rootsweb.com Sent: 24 October 2010 08:01 To: eng-dur-sunderland@rootsweb.com Subject: ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND Digest, Vol 5, Issue 105

Also where did you get the marriage information from as there isn't a marriage in 1910 between Percy Stevenson and Mary Davison as I can't see one on freebmd in 1910 Barbara >> These are the only deaths registered in County Durham between >> March1901 and March 1911 >> >> Stevenson Mary Ann 45 Hartlepool 10a 102 >> Stevenson Mary Ann 0 Gateshead 10a 447 >> STEVENSON Mary Ann 0 Sunderland 10a 365 >> >> >> Stan Mapstone >> >> On 24 October 2010 01:59, tom stevenson<t.stevenson1@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, I have a Percy Stevenson who married a miss Mary A davison in Sunderland during the last quarter of 1910, Percy was about 17 at the time, Mary's age is unknown. The following year percy shows up on the 1911 census living in High Burnhopside, Lanchester as a farmhand, marriage status, widow. Could anyone help me find out what happened to mary? I am interested in the cause of her death. >>> Thanks, >>> Tom. >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Danish (Viking) incursions on the Northumbria coast began towards the end of the 8th century, and continued, at intervals, for over 200 years. The monastic buildings of Monkwearmouth continued in use until the mid-9th century, when they were either destroyed by Viking invaders, or abandoned by the monks because of the threat from the Vikings. As for place names, Old Scandinavian, whether Danish or Norwegian, is a Germanic language, as is Old English. This means that while it is usually possible to distinguish Celtic and Old English elements in place names, it is not always possible to distinguish Old Scandinavian and Old English elements from each other. Stan Mapstone On 24 October 2010 09:30, ROB SHEPHERD <robshepherd1974@googlemail.com> wrote: > Good Morning > > Does anyone on the list know if there is any Viking heritage on Wearside. > Did the Vikings attack / settling on our part of the North East Coastline? > > Are there any Norse placenames in our region? > > Many thanks > > Rob > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Percy Stephenson, age 22, and Mary Ann Stephenson, age 21, are in Sunderland in the 1911 census, with their son Thomas Stephenson, 6 months. Stan On 24 October 2010 09:42, Stan Mapstone <stanmapstone@gmail.com> wrote: > DAVISON         Mary   A        1910 > STEPHENSON      Percy           1910 > http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1399 > > Stan > > On 24 October 2010 09:36, Stan Mapstone <stanmapstone@gmail.com> wrote: >> The name is Percy Stephenson not Stevenson. >> >> Stan

DAVISON Mary A 1910 STEPHENSON Percy 1910 http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1399 Stan On 24 October 2010 09:36, Stan Mapstone <stanmapstone@gmail.com> wrote: > The name is Percy Stephenson not Stevenson. > > Stan > > On 24 October 2010 08:51, Stan Mapstone <stanmapstone@gmail.com> wrote: >> These are the only deaths registered in County Durham between >> March1901 and March 1911 >> >> Stevenson        Mary Ann        45      Hartlepool      10a    102 >> Stevenson        Mary Ann        0       Gateshead       10a    447 >> STEVENSON        Mary Ann        0       Sunderland      10a    365 >> >> >> Stan Mapstone >> >> On 24 October 2010 01:59, tom stevenson <t.stevenson1@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, I have a Percy Stevenson  who married a miss Mary A  davison in Sunderland during the last quarter of 1910, Percy was about 17 at the time, Mary's age is unknown. The following year percy shows up on the 1911 census living in High Burnhopside, Lanchester as a farmhand, marriage status, widow. Could anyone help me find out what happened to mary? I am interested in the cause of her death. >>> Thanks, >>> Tom. >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >

The name is Percy Stephenson not Stevenson. Stan On 24 October 2010 08:51, Stan Mapstone <stanmapstone@gmail.com> wrote: > These are the only deaths registered in County Durham between > March1901 and March 1911 > > Stevenson        Mary Ann        45      Hartlepool      10a    102 > Stevenson        Mary Ann        0       Gateshead       10a    447 > STEVENSON        Mary Ann        0       Sunderland      10a    365 > > > Stan Mapstone > > On 24 October 2010 01:59, tom stevenson <t.stevenson1@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, I have a Percy Stevenson  who married a miss Mary A  davison in Sunderland during the last quarter of 1910, Percy was about 17 at the time, Mary's age is unknown. The following year percy shows up on the 1911 census living in High Burnhopside, Lanchester as a farmhand, marriage status, widow. Could anyone help me find out what happened to mary? I am interested in the cause of her death. >> Thanks, >> Tom. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >

Good Morning Does anyone on the list know if there is any Viking heritage on Wearside. Did the Vikings attack / settling on our part of the North East Coastline? Are there any Norse placenames in our region? Many thanks Rob

These are the only deaths registered in County Durham between March1901 and March 1911 Stevenson Mary Ann 45 Hartlepool 10a 102 Stevenson Mary Ann 0 Gateshead 10a 447 STEVENSON Mary Ann 0 Sunderland 10a 365 Stan Mapstone On 24 October 2010 01:59, tom stevenson <t.stevenson1@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, I have a Percy Stevenson  who married a miss Mary A  davison in Sunderland during the last quarter of 1910, Percy was about 17 at the time, Mary's age is unknown. The following year percy shows up on the 1911 census living in High Burnhopside, Lanchester as a farmhand, marriage status, widow. Could anyone help me find out what happened to mary? I am interested in the cause of her death. > Thanks, > Tom. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello, I have a Percy Stevenson who married a miss Mary A davison in Sunderland during the last quarter of 1910, Percy was about 17 at the time, Mary's age is unknown. The following year percy shows up on the 1911 census living in High Burnhopside, Lanchester as a farmhand, marriage status, widow. Could anyone help me find out what happened to mary? I am interested in the cause of her death. Thanks, Tom.

Hi: As in most trades, I should think, there are moulders and moulders. Moulds range from simple, one-piece patterns in small bench flasks to vast multi-piece floor moulds for, for example, ships' propellers or Francis turbine runners. All that sand must be shoveled and then rammed so as to be firm but not impermeable to hot gases, and in my apprentice days that was done with heavy rammers operated with muscle-power. Heavy work. Now a lot is done with highly specialized machinery. But you still see a good moulder pick up a fistful of sand, squeeze it, pinch it, and even smell it much as a cook might test her dough. A patternmaker is a woodworker right up there with cabinetmakers, and in my former company the exec suite was filled with superb furniture made in the pattern shop during the Depression. I once worked in a company whose outraged patternmakers were on the brink of striking because some 'efficiency expert' had persuaded the management to colour-code patterns with opaque paint instead of the previous clear varnish, thus obscuring the artistry of their fine woodwork. The patternmaker must also allow precisely for the shrinkage of the particular metal to be cast, for the 'rap' to loosen the pattern in the mould and the 'draft' to allow it to be withdrawn. Sorry. That didn't have much to do with genealogy. But someone asked a question that I, for once, could contribute to. Bruce Dodd -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 514 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

Stan and Rod Thank you again, my encyclopaedic friends; this time for taking the time to hunt up references and sorting out the rope works. I hadn't realized it was all about wire rope. Your second-mile info now suggests why my cousin, a Sunderland boy, sudddenly moved with his family to Doncaster. Bruce Dodd Ottawa, ON -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 514 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

Does anyone no anything about the Bakewell Sauce Factory which was closed around 1920/3 in Sunderland Stan

Bruce, See: http://tinyurl.com/3xkollw This should explain all. Rod At 08:01 18/10/2010, eng-dur-sunderland-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >Hi, Listers: > >In my records I have shown an elder cousin, now deceased, as an Officer of >Sunderland Rope Works. Now I've turned up an Echo clipping that says he >was Secretary of Glaholm Robson. > >Now I`m wondering whether (1) there was/is an organization called (The) >Sunderland Rope Works, or (2) Glaholm Robson was/is a Sunderland rope >works. Google shed some light on (2), but not on (1). > >Thank you in anticipation. > >Bruce Dodd >Ottawa, ON RSVP. Please support the St.George Foundation: www.adecentlife.org

Bruce my mind tells me it was known as Robsons Ropery ( mind the mind plays tricks ) Cheers Pat Phillips ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dodd" <bmdodd@rogers.com> To: <eng-dur-sunderland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 1:29 PM Subject: [ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND] Rope Works > Hi, Listers: > > In my records I have shown an elder cousin, now deceased, as an Officer > of Sunderland Rope Works. Now I've turned up an Echo clipping that says > he was Secretary of Glaholm Robson. > > Now I`m wondering whether (1) there was/is an organization called (The) > Sunderland Rope Works, or (2) Glaholm Robson was/is a Sunderland rope > works. Google shed some light on (2), but not on (1). > > Thank you in anticipation. > > Bruce Dodd > Ottawa, ON > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 470 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

According to the National Archives Acquisitions by British Ropes between 1945 and 1971 included: R Hood Haggie and Sons, Tyneside, in 1959 with its subsidiaries Glaholm and Robson and Dixon Corbitt. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=197-dybri&cid=0#0 This date does not agree with the date in "Sunderland, River Town and People". Stan Mapstone On 18 October 2010 08:39, Stan Mapstone <stanmapstone@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bruce, > Glaholm and Robson were founded in 1859. They produced wire ropes > which were used in lifts, mining, aerial ropeways, engineering, > oil=well boring, naval and merchant ships, dredging vessels etc. > British Ropes were founded in the 1920s and Glaholm and Robson's were > absorbed into the group in 1946. The last five Sunderland rope > factories closed  between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. > From "Sunderland, River Town and People" > > Stan Mapstone > > On 18 October 2010 02:29, Bruce Dodd <bmdodd@rogers.com> wrote: >> Hi, Listers: >> >> In my records I have shown an elder cousin, now deceased, as an Officer >> of Sunderland Rope Works.  Now I've turned up an Echo clipping that says >> he was Secretary of Glaholm Robson. >> >> Now I`m wondering whether (1) there was/is an organization called (The) >> Sunderland Rope Works, or (2) Glaholm Robson was/is a Sunderland rope >> works.  Google shed some light on (2), but not on (1). >> >> Thank you in anticipation. >> >> Bruce Dodd >> Ottawa, ON >> -- >> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. >> We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. >> SPAMfighter has removed 470 of my spam emails to date. >> Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len >> >> The Professional version does not have this message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >

Hi Bruce, Glaholm and Robson were founded in 1859. They produced wire ropes which were used in lifts, mining, aerial ropeways, engineering, oil=well boring, naval and merchant ships, dredging vessels etc. British Ropes were founded in the 1920s and Glaholm and Robson's were absorbed into the group in 1946. The last five Sunderland rope factories closed between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. >From "Sunderland, River Town and People" Stan Mapstone On 18 October 2010 02:29, Bruce Dodd <bmdodd@rogers.com> wrote: > Hi, Listers: > > In my records I have shown an elder cousin, now deceased, as an Officer > of Sunderland Rope Works.  Now I've turned up an Echo clipping that says > he was Secretary of Glaholm Robson. > > Now I`m wondering whether (1) there was/is an organization called (The) > Sunderland Rope Works, or (2) Glaholm Robson was/is a Sunderland rope > works.  Google shed some light on (2), but not on (1). > > Thank you in anticipation. > > Bruce Dodd > Ottawa, ON > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 470 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi, Listers: In my records I have shown an elder cousin, now deceased, as an Officer of Sunderland Rope Works. Now I've turned up an Echo clipping that says he was Secretary of Glaholm Robson. Now I`m wondering whether (1) there was/is an organization called (The) Sunderland Rope Works, or (2) Glaholm Robson was/is a Sunderland rope works. Google shed some light on (2), but not on (1). Thank you in anticipation. Bruce Dodd Ottawa, ON -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 470 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message

Hello Everyone  - Has anyone had any contact with Verlaine Bennett recently? Regards Pam

Hello, Have come across a gentelman by the name of Graham Coombes who was a motorcycle racer throughout the 1960's who teamed up with both the Newcastle Diamonds and the Sunderland Saints. There are some photos of him at the Sunderland Speedway with some of his teammates at the time. I think he may have been related to my grandmother Elizabeth Coombes nee Stevenson from Sunderland. If anyone has anything to offer on him I would be much obliged. Cheers, Tom.

Hi Bob I presume that you have got her birth certificate from GRO which has told you her parents. There was another Jane Ann Stubbs born June 1862 in Auckland Durham Vol 10a page 134. The Tynemouth Jane Ann is also at the same address in Galashields in the 1881 Scottish census, so if that is yours have you looked for a marriage on Scotlandspeople website? Regards Eileen White From: eng-dur-sunderland-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-dur-sunderland-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of eng-dur-sunderland-request@rootsweb.com Sent: 02 October 2010 08:02 To: eng-dur-sunderland@rootsweb.com Subject: ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND Digest, Vol 5, Issue 97