In a message dated 05/12/2009 15:44:27 GMT Standard Time, brenda.davison@virgin.net writes: Her address 1911 was Langley Moor Cottage,Annfield Plain. The Registration District was Lanchester ,the Parish South Moor.I have looked at maps but not been able to find a Langley Moor Farm. Brenda: First, you may be tempted by the fact that there is a large colliery village named Langley Moor within the parish of Brandon. However, that is many miles south of Annfield Plain and will not be the one you want. The Langley Moor in question is to the SE of Annfield Plain and to the west of South Moor. I have looked at the OS 1st Edition one-inch map of the area (Godfrey Edition), from which, although Langley Moor Cottage(s) is/are not marked, the general district is as I have said. Unfortunately I don't have the 2nd edition "25 inch" map (Godfrey Edition) of that district, though I do have them for surrounding places, which makes me think that perhaps Godfrey didn't cover Langley Moor,it being mainly farm land and not centred on any major settlement. There was/is a wood called "Langley Moor Plantation", to the west of Quaking Houses, and it does strike me that "Quaking Houses" could well be a later nickname, applied to what may have originally been "Langley Moor Cottages" - but that's just a guess. From Whellans' Directory (1894), it appears that the district was within the parish of Holmside at that time, the parish having been formed in 1865 from the townships of Greencroft, Tanfield, Kyo, Chester le Street, Edmondsley, Langley and Lanchester (this will mean "from all or parts of the townships of .....), the parish itself having apparently formed a new township caled Holmside Township. It was "principally the property of the Earl of Durham, Miss Allgood, A Wilkinson Esq and George Hobson Esq." Of those, the Earl of Durham was a Lambton, the Allgoods are a family still centred on the lower North Tyne valley in Northumberland, there are several Wilkinson families around but at least one was a major Roman Catholic land-owning family in that part of Co Durham and the Hobsons may have had a connection with the village of Hobson just south of Burnopfield. South Moor (this could well have originated as "South Langley Moor") Colliery was being worked in 1894 by "Messrs Hedley & Co". It could be that the source of the name Langley is "Langley Castle", a mediaeval house, the remains of which are NW of Witton Gilbert, only a few miles from Langley Moor as the (mediaeval) crow flies. Geoff Nicholson