In a message dated 05/08/2004 08:38:49 GMT Daylight Time, mhart@iinet.net.au writes: In December 1879 when his mother, Jane DAWSON, registers his birth her address is "Three Horse Shoes Cabin, Hylton." Could anyone tell me where Hylton is please and any information about her address, it's such an unusual name. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In the 1881 census the entry for 'Three Horse Shoes Inn' Hylton is next to that for the 'Railway Gate Cabin' occupied by Thomas Dawson, 50, (Gatekeeper) Elizabeth Dawson, 51, and Jane Dawson, 22, unmarried, there is no entry for Anthony Dawson. The Railway Gate Cabin will be the railway crossing keeper's house for the 'Hylton, Southwick, and Monkwearmouth' line of 1876 which linked to the former Pontop and South Shields line near Washington. It was purely a freight line with a goods station at Southwick and sidings at Castletown and North Hylton. Never a financial success it was acquired in 1883 by The North Eastern Railway. Regards Stan Mapstone www.mapstone.org