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I have a booklet about the Welwyn somewhere (which has photos) but will need to have a rummage about to find it.

@Canny lass thank you very much, that must’ve took a while to do (and write)! I tried using the pub method before but certainly wasn’t as effective. Now it seems quite obvious- the west row would be west and the east row would be east… 😆

A potential lead on from a newspaper article in 1874, I’m thinking maybe this East Row in 1871 was at Scotland Gate. Unless there were two, one there and one in Guide Post. 🤔 I’ve just checked and Thomas Marsden does appear in the 1871 census a few pages from my ancestors. So Scotland Gate, not Guide Post.

@DJA 24 Thank you for your reply. I’m already aware of the NLS maps (and what a brilliant resource they are!). I’ve looked at the Guide Post maps but unfortunately as you say, they don’t bring up much even when the layouts have been the same. Guide Post is quite a mystery… I searched up one of the named streets, Blyth Terrace, and even that has been enigmatic in results except a few newspaper articles.

@Canny lass Must be one of those days for me, full of typos. It is 1892, just had a double check.

Hi, I’ve been looking on the census at where my ancestors (Storey) lived in 1871 and 1881 and came across two places I’ve never heard of; East Row (1871) & Choppington Row (1881). Both in Guide Post. Does anyone know anything about them? Thank you.

@Colin Nichol How sad. I should correct that William was buried 25 Oct 1914, not January. Don’t know where I got that month from! Found his obituary in Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 24 Oct 1914, page 2. NICHOL - At Wansbeck Cottage, Stakeford, 23inst, aged 5 years and 19 months, William, the beloved son of James and Alice Nichol. Interment at Cambois Churchyard on Sunday at 3.30pm. Friends please accept this, the only intimation. Morpeth Herald, March 5 1898 page 8: At West Sleekburn on 28th ult., Ann Margaret, daughter of Mr. James Nichol. Morpeth Herald, 23 January 1893, page 8: At Stakeford, 16th inst., aged 7 months, Annie Margaret, daughter of Mr. James Nichol.

Hi, I had a look through the Cambois burials on FreeREG and was wondering if James and Mary Alice might’ve sadly lost another child? Their youngest William doesn’t appear in the 1921 census with them, but there is this burial. William Nichol buried 25 January 1914, aged 5, residence Wansbeck Terrace Sleekburn. Lou

A photo that shares some of those names