In a message dated 29/07/2004 03:25:35 GMT Daylight Time, lmmartin@rogers.com writes: Can anyone help me define where Low Street, Sunderland would have been in 1847, and the nearest church. Low Street was (and the remnant of it still is) between the High Street and the river. It was a street full of closely-packed slums, as will be apparent from any of the available censuses. I once traced a family of whom, to begin with, I knew little apart from the fact that the head was a publican in Low Street. The closest Trade Directory to the date might have given me the address and the name of the pub. However, on inspection it turned out that at the time there were some 60 pubs, in that one street (more, probably, then even on the three-mile-long Scotswod Road in Newcastle!). 57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU Long-established Professional Genealogist: ask for details of NBL/DUR family history research by THE local expert, working for YOU.

Thanks Geoff and Stan - as always, your help is appreciated. Not the better end of town to live in then?!! And I thought I had such posh relatives! Linda. > address and the name of the pub. However, on inspection it turned out that at > the time there were some 60 pubs, in that one street (more, probably, then > even on the three-mile-long Scotswod Road in Newcastle!).