In a message dated 28/04/2007 22:04:49 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Moat Side Lane, Durham. Can anyone tell me where this lane might have been in County Durham? ____________________________________________________________ Moatside Lane, is in the Parish of St. Nicholas, Durham City, near the Market Place. Regards Stan Mapstone

Fellow Listers, I am researching the Wilson Family in Durham, originating from North Yorks. They lived in a variety of locations including Kirkbymoorside-1851 census, Spennymoor-1881 census, Easington-death cert, Thornley, and Shotton Colliery. Richard, he died at home in Easington District. Knowing their approximate addresses from these census, is there any way to determine who the land owner was at the time of their residence there ? Any common landlords name in 2 or more locations would be a good lead. I ask this because in Family legend, I am told Richard's natural father owned colliery housing where they always lived (and supposedly paid no rent). His mother listed no fathers name on his birth certificate, registered January, 1845 in North Yorks. He died January, 1885 of pleurisy in Easington District. Any ideas of where to research whom the landlord would have been ? We sent the request to the Durham Record Office with the contact addresses. He is recorded and lived in the Stokesley Area near Seamer, N-Yorks. Richard Wilson was born December, 1844 and was a coal miner, living in Spennymoor, Durham, later died in Shotton Colliery, Durham. in Co. Durham Earlier as a grandson to William Wilson, he lived in Kirkbymoorside, at age 6 in 1851 Regards, Paul in Pennsylvania To: <[email protected]> Subject: [ENG-DURHAM] Request for help with an address in Durham