Colchester Library has a photographically reduced half-size copy of the Tendring tithe map (1840-ish). As far as I know (I worked at Colchester Library until December 2010) no material has ever been transferred from there to the Record Office in Chelmsford; this is an urban myth. The contents of the former branch record office in Colchester did all move to Chelmsford some years ago; and some duplicate microforms, and the tithe map copies, were given to Colchester Library as they were no longer needed elsewhere. Cottage Lane is certainly given as an address in the Tendring 1841 census return. Tendring was lucky to have an enumerator who bothered to give addresses for every house. Many enumerators didn't bother, especially in small villages. I think Tendring District took its name, in 1974 or thereabouts, from the old Tendring Hundred. And Tendring Hundred took its name from the village where local meetings, or moots, had been held. (I think - historians please feel free to correct this) Dudley -------------------------------------------------- From: "Angelika" <bewstoor@roberts.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 4:32 PM To: "David Vesey" <veseybrown@sympatico.ca>; <ESSEX-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [Ess] Tendring > David > > I can't help directly - I have a reprinted Ordnance Survey Map for the > area from 1838, but unfortunately it only lists the names of farms, not > of the little lanes around them. > > I popped into Manningtree Library yesterday to see if they had anything, > but they didn't (it's only a small library). The librarian suggested I > try Colchester, but that they may not have anything either as a lot of > things have been moved to the Essex Records Office in Chelmsford. I'm > happy to go to Colchester Library for you next time I'm heading that way > (Chelmsford is a bit far); if you want me to do that it would be helpful > if you could contact them beforehand to see what they've got. > > Another thing I did yesterday (as it's the sort of thing I like doing!) > - I used the "Search by address" feature on FindMyPast to see who else > was living in Cottage Lane in 1841, and then looked for them, by name, > in 1851 (as Cottage Lane didn't seem to exist then - at least not as a > street name). I found that several of them were living at addresses such > as "31 Cottage" and "37 Cottage". I don't think these would have been an > abbreviation of "Cottage Lane" (as we don't abbreviate street names like > that here - I know you do in Canada, where I've just come back from), so > I'm wondering if, by 1851, they had adopted a system of simply numbering > all the cottages in the village without using street names? > > If you ever find out where your ancestors were living I'll be happy to > go and take a picture for you - I don't live all that far away (and have > a friend in the village). > > BTW, as you may know Tendring is also the name of our local government > district (no idea why they called it after that tiny village), so things > get a bit confusing at times. > > Angelika > > > On 15/02/2013 20:45, David Vesey wrote: >> Does anyone on the List have a copy of a Tithe Map from Tendring circa >> 1841. >> >> I have an ancestor living in "Cottage Lane" ( 1841 Census) and I would >> like to >> try to find/photgraph the location today in Tendring. >> >> David Vesey >> Toronto Canada >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >