Hamsteels, County Durham: People and Places of 1879

Enjoy a glimpse of history about Hamsteels in County Durham, North East England, UK.

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The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland

by Kelly and Company

Published in 1879

HAMSTEELS is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1873 from the mother parish of Lanchester, from which village it is distant 1½ miles east and 7 west from Durham, in the Northern division of the county, west division of Chester ward, Lanchester union, Durham county court district, rural deanery of Chester, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The ecclesiastical parish embraces the colliery villages of QUEBEC and CORNSAY COLLIERY. The church of St. John the Baptist, situated at Quebec, is a small stone building, erected in 1875; the living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham and held by the Rev. Francis Gwynne Wesley, B.A. of All Souls College, Oxford. There is a National school at Quebec, also a Wesleyan chapel; and at Cornsay Colliery there are British and Catholic schools, and the Methodist New Connexion have a chapel here. There is a chapel of ease, which is also used as a Day and Sunday school. The Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans have chapels here. There are some stone quarries. The Earl of Durham is lord of the manor and Matthew Kearney, John Fawcett, and E. T. Smith, esqs. are the principal landowners. The soil is light, and the subsoil rocky; a great portion of the township is barren and uncultivated; the population in 1871 was 327.—Letters for Hamsteels arrive from Durham via Lanchester.

POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank (Cornsay Colliery).—Joseph Norwood, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Durham, 9.30 a.m.; dispatched 3.45 p.m.

POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank (Quebec).—Richard Nelson, receiver. Letters from Durham arrive at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 4 p.m

SCHOOLS:—

British (Cornsay Colliery), Henry Coxon, master

Catholic, Edward Dougherty, master

National (Quebec), Thomas Scott, master

Hamsteels.

COMMERCIAL.

Armstrong Mark, farmer, Hamsteels hill

Clark Geo. road contractor, Quarry ho

Dolphin Henry, farmer, Blackburn

Gibson E. (Mrs.), farmer, Blackburn

Greenwell George & Joseph, farmers

Hope Thomas, farmer

Hunter Benjamin, farmer, Quarry house

Kenlyside Joseph, farmer

Latue John, farm bailiff to Messrs. Ferens & Love, Rowley farm

Love George, coal master, Browney bank colliery

Lumley Joseph, Bird-in-the-Bush Marley Anthony, farm bailiff to Ushaw College, Biggins

Marley John, Quarry inn Ridley Joseph, farmer

Suddes William, farmer, Wilks hill

Thompson Wm. farmer, High Burnopside

Towns John, farmer

Walburn John, farmer

Walton George, farmer

Wilson Ripson, farmer

Burnhope.

Gladstone James, butcher

Gray William, grocer & draper

Healey George, farmer, Low Burnop

Watson Thomas, butcher

Cornsay Colliery.

Bates William, shopkeeper

Brambridge Thomas, shopkeeper

Davison Charles, colliery manager

Ferens & Love, coal mastrs. & coke manufacturers, Cornsay colliery, & at Lanchester; office, 28 Market pl. Durham

Gott Nathan, colliery agent

Hardy John, glass & china dealer

Hodgson William, shopkeeper

Houston Edward, boot & shoe maker

Knox Daniel, ale & spirit dealer

Knox John, butcher

Law James, butcher

Lowes Thomas, shopkeeper

Lynn Andrew, newsagent

Potter Thomas, Royal Oak Ridley Wheatly, joiner

Routh Thomas, shoe maker

Sharples Solomon, draper

Tulip John, grocer & draper

Quebec.

Cockerill John, Hamsteels Colliery inn Dodds George, butcher

Fletcher George, brewer

Hand William, butcher

Harrison Joseph, draper

Holmes Thomas, shopkeeper

Job William, confectioner

Johnson, Reay & Johnson, coal masters, Hamsteels colliery

Langland William, grocer & draper

Marley John, Hamsteels New inn Nelson Richard, draper

Thirloway Timothy, grocer