Ushaw Moor Memories (Backup)

Memories of Ushaw Moor and Deerness Valley

Thursday 30 October 2008

Some Florence Girls from Sleetburn

Florence was a very popular name in Victorian times and there were lots of them in Sleetburn. Examples of the surnames of some of them, which might trigger memories, are as follows:

Beattie  living at 31 Harvey St. [Parents Isaac and Hannah]

Brown                Colliery View  [James and Elizabeth Jane]

Brownlow   [both mother and daughter called Florence] - Planting Row

Calvert                33 Harvey St. [William and Isabella]

Dixon                  15 Jubilee St.  [Joseph and Isabella]

Eggleston            48 Eshwood St. [Augustus and Mary Ann]

Wilf Bell

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