Northumberland
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| Eglingham War Memorial |
This week my husband and I have been visiting the beautiful county of Northumberland with its amazing coast line and beautiful countryside. Birds, wildlife, photography and walking have filled our time but I could not resist getting in some family history too. For those of you unfamiliar with the geography of England, Northumberland sits on the border with Scotland over 300 miles north of Brighton and it couldn't be further away from the usual Titheridge / Titheradge abode in Hampshire and the south. However, we managed to find three links to the family name.
Morpeth
Our first family history visit was to Morpeth, once a small market town now a bustling town.
The connection with the Titheradge family came about in World War 2. Mike's father Eric Norman Titheridge (Bob) was serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corp and they were stationed near Morpeth. It was here that he met Mike's Mum who lived in Morpeth. They were married on 13th May 1944. After the war they settled in Morpeth where Mike and his brother were born. The family lived in Morpeth until the early 1960s.
Mike and I wandered around Morpeth looking for familiar landmarks, family residences, churches, and gravestones.
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| River Wansbeck Morpeth |
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| River Wansbeck stepping stones Morpeth |
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| St Mary's Grave yard, Morpeth |
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| St James the Great, Morpeth |
Eglingham
Our second bit of family history was to visit the small village call Eglingham. Here we found the memorial which remembered those who lost their lives in World War 1.
Eglingham in Northumberland is not a place you associate with the surname Titheridge. It is a small village situated 7 miles north west of Alnwick and 40 miles north of Newcastle. It is about 350 miles north of Winchester in Hampshire - so why did one of our Titheridge ancestors leave Hampshire in the 1910s and head to Northumberland where neither he nor his wife had any known relatives? Presumably the answer has to be - to find work. On the Eglingham village war memorial the last name listed is Arthur Titheridge. Arthur was born in West Meon, Hampshire, lived in East Meon, Hampshire and was killed in the Battle of the Falklands in 1914 aboard HMS Kent. He is buried in Port Stanley in the Falklands, commemorated on the East Meon War memorial, and at Canterbury Cathedral memorial to HMS Kent as well as being mentioned on the Eglingham memorial. Previous blogs have told his story
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| War Memorial Eglingham |
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| War Memorial Eglingham |
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| War Memorial Eglingham |
Distant Cousin
Our third family history visit was on the way home when we stopped near Newcastle for coffee with a distant Titheradge cousin and her daughter who we have been corresponding with for many years. Our distant cousin was born on the south coast but now resides in beautiful Northumberland.
1 comment:
The distant cousin (myself) and daughter were delighted to welcome you and are 'at home' to any other distant - or closely related - cousins! I had not until reading this thought about the coincidence of your father, Mike, being "Eric" as was one of my great-uncles. Is this another of the 'family' names? The great uncle who died was an Arthur and my grandfather was William Charles and I know they both crop up all over the place as boys' names but had not previously registered Eric!
Penny Harrison (nee Titheradge)
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