OLD MAPS AND GENEALOGY FAMILY HISTORY To look a historical map is to step into the past.

BARNARD CASTLE 1925

THE ROMAN ROAD The Roman ford at Barnard Castle

OLD MAPS AND FAMILY HISTORY THE ROMAN ROAD Network of known and possible Roman roads converging at Barnard Castle. Bowes to Binchester Barnard Castle to Lanchester? Barnard Castle to Wolsingham?? Barnard Castle up Teesdale? Eggleston to Stanhope Binchester founded c80ad Sketch map by Raymond Selkirk

BARNARD CASTLE 1925

Bede Kirk Saxon Church (Marwood), chantry chapel, Lazar House Traces of Saxon church found when farmhouse demolished in 1959 Bernard s castle came later early 12 th century - and town followed

BARNARD CASTLE 1925

THE WORKHOUSE

BARNARD CASTLE WORKHOUSE Erected 1838 to house 158 inmates Replaced earlier local workhouses at Barnard Castle (50), Bowes (20), Eggleston (12), Gainford (20) and Newbiggin (12) The infirmary was built later Other workhouses at Alston and Stanhope

BARNARD CASTLE 1925

County Maps Estate Maps Enclosure Award Maps Military Maps Tithe Maps Ordnance Survey grid references and sheet numbers Valuation Office Survey National Farm Survey Griffith s Survey (Ireland) Route strip maps Town Plans

COUNTY MAPS CHRISTOPHER SAXTON 1577 380mm x 490mm

DETAIL FROM SAXTON 1577

JOAN BLAEU 1645 360mm x 480mm

DETAIL FROM JOAN BLAEU 1645

THOMAS KITCHIN C1750 500mm x 660mm

DETAIL FROM THOMAS KITCHIN C1750

Many new county maps were encouraged by the offer of prizes by the Society of the Arts (from 1759) for new and accurate surveys Based on a trigonometrical survey Accurate road distances Correct latitude and longitude Scale of at least one inch to one mile http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/htm l/topics/rsaprize.htm

COUNTY MAPS SAYERS & JEFFRIES 1768 530mm x 710mm 1 inch to the mile

DETAIL SAYERS & JEFFRIES 1768

COUNTY MAPS SAYERS & JEFFRIES 1768

ESTATE MAPS EGGLESTON 1614 Record Office - Durham

ESTATE MAP FERRYHILL 1765 Durham Halmote Records

FERRYHILL 1765 (DURHAM HALMOTE RECORDS)

MONEYDIE AND THE RATTRAYS 1703 May 23 James, s.o. John Lawson & Isobell Rattray in Pitindynie 1703 Jun 13 James, s.o. James Scobie and Janet Talier in Monrodgers 1703 Oct 10 William, s.o. October 10 James Rattray & Margaret Miller in Blair hall had a son baptized called William.

ROY S MILITARY MAP (SCOTLAND) 1747-55

ESTATE MAP MONEYDIE ROGER 1793

MAPS NOT BEING DISCUSSED IN THIS TALK Inclosure Plans Tithe Maps Melvyn s talk in November Valuation Survey 1910-1915 (with text) Lloyd George Domesday Griffith s Valuation Ireland 1848-1864 National Farm Survey 1941-1943 (with text) Road Strip Maps Railway Maps

ORDNANCE SURVEY Mapping the Scottish Highlands after the 1745 rebellion (Roy) Mapping the south coast when threatened by Napoleon Official birth of Ordnance Survey 21 June 1791 First map (Kent) 1801 The mapping moved northwards. First complete series not published until 1870. Ireland 1824 https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/overvie w/history.html

AN EXAMPLE SARAH SWINDLE According to the parish register my great-greatgrandfather Joseph, illegitimate son of Sarah Swindle, was born at Smallburns and baptised on the 7th January 1821 in Ninebanks, Northumberland. Smallburns farm

SARAH SWINDLE 2017 1: 25000 Ordnance survey map

HIGH SMALLBURNS 1865 1: 10560 map

1895 25 inch to the mile map shows High Smallburns is now deserted. 2017 invisible on Google earth.

SMALLBURNS LATEST ONLINE MAP

JOSEPH SWINDLE 1841 CENSUS

1841 census Ninebanks, West Allen Corry Hill Chairhead Chairhead Moscow - Jos, Mary and Ann Swindle Bog Head Dryburn

MOSCOW? Modern 1:25000 map

MOSCOW! 1865 OS map 1:10560

MOSCOW! (2003)

TOWN MAPS Birmingham 1731

TOWN MAPS BIRMINGHAM 1731 DETAIL

BIRMINGHAM 1778

BIRMINGHAM 1831

BIRMINGHAM 1831 - DETAIL

BIRMINGHAM ACKERMAN 1847 n.b. Wrong street named Milk Street

BIRMINGHAM Thomas Swindell was born about 1828 in Burton on Trent. By 1854 he was married and settled in Great Bridge, Staffordshire (on the Walsall canal) (. He was a boatman (bargee) So was his son Francis (1855-1938), who settled in Milk Street (2 Rea Terrace), Birmingham. In 1901 Court 2 Milk Street: Its state can only be described as awful; an abomination. The unpaved, ill-drained yard was at the time of our visit half-full of water. The outhouses were disgusting. The rain was running off the roof in one part and down the wall onto a broken shed. It then trickled down and formed a filthy slop in front of a man's door.

No 2 Court, Milk Street

MILK STREET, BIRMINGHAM 1902

OLD (NEW) MAPS AND FAMILY HISTORY BIRMINGHAM 2017

SOURCES FOR MAPS Old County Maps http://www.oldmapsonline.org Estate Maps Google, Record Office Ordnance Survey Maps http://www.old-maps.co.uk Vision of Britain 1 inch to the mile http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps maps.nls.uk Modern OS large scale mapping zoom out, drag to area of interest and then zoom in Common map scales for detail maps 1 inch to the mile 1:63,360 1:50,000 1:25000 6 inch to the mile or 1:10,560 (1:10,000) 25 inch to the mile or 1:2543 (1:2500)