Marley Hill, Gateshead: People and Places of 1879

 

MARLEY HILL is a parish formed in 1874 from the parishes of Whickham, Lamesley and Tanfield, 5 miles south-west from Gateshead, in the west division of Chester ward, Gateshead union and county court district, Chester rural deanery, Durham archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. The church of St. Cuthbert was erected in 1877 by voluntary subscription, at a cost of over £3,000: it is in the Early English Gothic style and consists of chancel, nave, porch, organ chamber and vestry. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, in the gift of the Crown and Bishop alternately, and held by the Rev. Samuel White, of Hatfield Hall, Durham. There are chapels for Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans. The population is about 2,700.

Parish Clerk, Walter Dye.

POST OFFICE.—Robert Clark, receiver. Letters arrive from Gateshead at 10.45 a.m.; dispatched at 2.15 p.m. Whickham is the nearest money order office

SCHOOLS:—

Board, Edwd. Saunders, master; Mrs. Elizh. Moore, mistress

National, Isaac Coates, master

Coates Isaac

Gilchrist James, Longfield house

Livingstone Alexander, Sunniside

Smith Joseph, Fenn house

Stoker Robert, Cloverhill, Sunniside

White Rev. Samuel [vicar]

COMMERCIAL.

Atkinson Stephen, farmer, Andrew’s ho

Bean Mary (Mrs.), grocer, Sunniside

Berkley Cuthbert, colliery viewer, Marley Hill house

Bowes John & Partners, coal owners, Marley Hill colliery

Bowman Rbt. farmer, Riding Bank frm

Brabban Thomas, grocer, draper & provision merchant

Clark Robert, grocer & provision mer

Clark Robert, viewer, Byermoor

Crawford Robert, grocer, Sunniside

Drummond Edwd. frmr. East Byermoor

Fenton Walter, nurseryman, Lingy Fine

Heads Thomas, farmer, Sunniside

Henderson Thomas, grocer, Sunniside

McLaren —, farmer, Hedley West ho

Swan James, farmer, Streetgate

Thompson James, engineer, Sandygate

Thompson John, farmer, Loosing hill