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I had a death cert come through with the address of the deseased living at 8 Sunderland Row, Shotton Colliery R.D i found a sunderland road in Easington not to far away from Shotton Colliery could the hubby have got the area wrong by mistake? as i cant find a sunderland row in Shotton Colliery, ive looked at the 1901 census to see who was living at the address at the time but they arent related many thanks for your help going to bed now so will reply in morning when ive slept on it lol

I have found by googling: By 1871 there were 323 households at *** Shotton Colliery ***village. The enumerator for that year mentioned: Albert St.; Front St.; 1st. - 4th. Low Rows; 1st. - 6th. High Rows; 1st. - 3rd. Chapel Rows; 1st. House Row; 1st & 2nd. School Rows; ***Sunderland Row***; Railway Row; Reading Room Row; and 1st. & 2nd. Stable Rows. He then moved on to cover a new community called 'Haswell Moor' where there were 130 more households - Front Row, 1st. To 3rd. North Rows (all tiny), 1st. New Row (North), Middle New Row (North), South New Row (only 1 household). I have not been able to locate the community of 'Haswell Moor' on the 1897 map. There was also a 'Haswell Moor' at Haswell and Easington to complicate matters. source: www.durhamrecordsonline*.*com/literature/shotton.php remove * to use the above web addy. nell

Hi Helen, I`ve had a look on that site its really good, on ancestry there are 3 districts i think, i looked at the roads the enumerator covered district 4 and 5 covered shotton colliery but i couldnt make out some of the roads in 4, the enumerators writng wasnt very neat, the 5th district the handwriting was lovely, just wished they had used that person on all of them lol. one thing that has me stumped though is why there were there, on mays death cert hughs occupation says actor but it was a mining village unless he lied or worked at the mens clubs, but his marriage cert and sons birth cert both say dramatic artiste

Maybe he aspired to the showbiz life. Perhaps he worked in a nearby town?

I live just down the road from Easington and Shotton, my families are from this area too. Most of the old streets were made up from wholy inadequate miners cottages of which very few survive. Easington has lots of newer homes dating from the 30's and 40's and later, as does Shotton. Our ancestors probably wouldn't know where the heck they were if you brought them back. I would say that your address is one of those that have long gone with the advent of better housing and the demise of the pits in the NE Carol

Nell, i have no idea lol im wondering if he had a stage name and i only know him by his birth name, ive googled him in so many ways, welsh actor, unknown actor, stage name, his birth town, concert halls etc to no avail argghhh i found a death for a h evans in 1909 on one of the colliery websites not sure whether to look more into that or not or wait until the 1911 census comes out lol

Hi carol, thank you for that information, not knowing the area i wasnt sure if i had the wrong info, all i need to find now is where she is buried i wouldnt have thought she would of been taken back to hereford where she came from?? which would be the nearest cemetary to shotton colliery ?

I think there is a small cemetery in Shotton and there is a biggish one in Easington

Give me more detail Karen, I'm going to the family history centre tonight, they might have local burial records, also I#m in the library thursday and they have burial records for local areas

Carol, thank you so much, right her name was May Evans died 6th october 1904 at 8 Sunderland Row, Shotton Colliery R.D she was 25, wife of hugh Humphreys Evans, he was present at the death sub district was wingate, easington, county Durham I Dont know what other info you might need