Does anyone have, know of, or have a link to fairly detailed parish boundary maps (at the street kind of level) for the city parishes (St. John, St Andrew, All Saints, St. Nicks) of Newcastle as they were in the 1750-1800-ish period? I think I've looked in the obvious places and can't find one..... Thanks Julia

Julia: I know I've seen one somewhere but canot think where! In practice your best bet is probably to go for the Ordnance Survey maps of the City Centre, as published eg in the Godfrey Maps series. They have lines of dots, sometimes difficult to follow through built-up areas but there all the same, which mark out the "Wards" of the town and which correspond to most of the old parish boundaries. Also good, Oliver's "Picture of Newcastle" from 1831 - eg the 1970 Frank Graham reprint - has a fold-out map where those boundaries are marked moderately plainly. If you are familiar with the general layout of Newcastle, its main roads etc, then it should, in theory, be possible to reconstruct the parish boundaries from a study of the "enumeration district descriptions", at the beginning of each enumeration district in the censuses. If it is one particular street or district that concerns you, then why not tell us which it is? I'm sure you would receive plenty of answers from people on this list! Geoff Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: Julia Say <[email protected]> To: northumbria <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:16 Subject: [NMB] C18 parish boundaries - Newcastle Does anyone have, know of, or have a link to fairly detailed parish boundary maps (at the street kind of level) for the city parishes (St. John, St Andrew, All Saints, St. Nicks) of Newcastle as they were in the 1750-1800-ish period? I think I've looked in the obvious places and can't find one..... Thanks Julia .. Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Julia Try http://maps.familysearch.org/ Although its at 1851 I doubt there would be much difference if any Enter Newcastle and zoom in to street level, you can select various overlays but Map shows street level with Parish boundaries May I ask what you are seeking the maps for ? I only ask as I have yet to find an instance in built up areas where a Parish map proved to be useful Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 14/02/2013 12:12, Julia Say wrote: > Does anyone have, know of, or have a link to fairly detailed parish > boundary maps (at the street kind of level) for the city parishes (St. > John, St Andrew, All Saints, St. Nicks) of Newcastle as they were in the > 1750-1800-ish period? > > I think I've looked in the obvious places and can't find one..... > > Thanks > > Julia

Julia: Further to Nivard's answer, see my comments on a similar question about the choice of church in Byker. In a town centre, people would move around a lot and I doubt whether many, even in the days of the Old Poor Law, would think of themselves as "belonging" to a particular parish. Chances are, they had lived in most of the four in Newcastle, and perhaps also worked in them all as well! They would probably have had much the same amount of difficulty as we have in deciding which parish a certain street was in! Mentioning the four parishes of Newcastle - it is generally taken for granted that there were four "ancient" parishes there, ie ones with registers going back to 1600. However, a pedant would say there was only one - St Nicholas. The other three, St John, St Andrew and All Saints, were officially Parochial Chapelries of St Nicholas. Just about the only hangover of that, even in the early 19th century, was that the clergyman in charge of, say, St John's, had the title "Vicar of St John's", but the man in charge at St Nicholas was the "Vicar of Newcastle". Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> To: northumbria <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:04 Subject: Re: [NMB] C18 parish boundaries - Newcastle Hi Julia Try http://maps.familysearch.org/ Although its at 1851 I doubt there would be much difference if any Enter Newcastle and zoom in to street level, you can select various overlays but Map shows street level with Parish boundaries May I ask what you are seeking the maps for ? I only ask as I have yet to find an instance in built up areas where a Parish map proved to be useful Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 14/02/2013 12:12, Julia Say wrote: > Does anyone have, know of, or have a link to fairly detailed parish > boundary maps (at the street kind of level) for the city parishes (St. > John, St Andrew, All Saints, St. Nicks) of Newcastle as they were in the > 1750-1800-ish period? > > I think I've looked in the obvious places and can't find one..... > > Thanks > > Julia .. Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message