Hindhaugh

  Before the Norman Conquest of Britain, people did not have hereditary surnames: they were known just by a personal name or nickname. When communities were small each person was identifiable by a single name, but as the population increased, it gradually became necessary to identify people further. After 1066, the Norman barons introduced surnames into England, and the practice gradually spread. Trades, nicknames, places of origin, and fathers' names became fixed surnames - names such as Fletcher and Smith, Redhead and Swift, Green and Pickering, Wilkins and Johnson. By 1400 most English families had adopted the use of hereditary surnames.

  Given the geographical descriptiveness of the word 'haugh', it is most likely that the surname Hindhaugh was given after the placename in which the individual(s) lived. The transcript, above left, comes from a book of English and Welsh surnames, the author giving the meaning of the word 'haugh' as mound. This may be somewhat inaccurate, as more commonly dictionaries give 'haugh' as being of Old English or lowland Scottish derivation meaning a small hollow, or a low-lying meadow by the side of a river. The prefix 'hind', although it can also mean to be a 'farm labourer', is probably used here in the context of being behind, or located at the back/rear.

  The transcript also refers to Hindhaugh as being in the immediate locality of Tickhill, a town in West Yorkshire and the residence, in the 1370's, of a Robertus de Hyndagh and Robertus Hyndaglh. This is the typical conclusion of other researchers of this surname that I have come across, however I feel this must be disputed. Almost all early records place individuals bearing the surname Hindhaugh, exclusively in the county of Northumberland. Early parish records in the 16th and 17th centuries suggest that the majority of Hindhaugh's resided in and around two areas: Hexham, west of Newcastle and Rothbury, further north in the county. After a  more detailed search of the area, I did come across a little habitation called Hindhaugh, just south of Otterburn, which is roughly halfway between Hexham and Rothbury. It looks to be nothing more than a few houses at most and, not knowing the history of this particular place, could not say indeed if it is the origin of the surname. However, judging by its position and the surrounding contours, it certainly looks to be in a low-lying meadow by the side of the River Rede. A search for this tiny hamlet at www.old-maps.co.uk, reveals it was there also in 1866.

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Robert Hindhaugh

married 5th February 1798

Mary Charlton

   Ann    

born 1804 Rothbury

 William

born 1802 Rothbury

Margaret

born 1804 Rothbury

Robert

born 1807 Rothbury

James Charlton Hindhaugh

( 1814 - 1883 ) Rothbury

married

Isabella Pattison

   I know very little about my 4 x great grandparents, Robert Hindhaugh and Mary Charlton. From their marriage date, it is likely they were both born around the 1770's, although not being able to locate them in any of the 19th century census', makes it hard to determine their exact dates of birth. I suspect the Robert Hindhaugh born 1776 in  Rothbury to parents John Hindhaugh & Anne Turner,  to be the most likely candidate, but there are a couple of more possible individuals. Maybe when the 1841 census becomes available at www.ancestry.co.uk , I will have more luck.

    What i do know about this couple, is that they were married on the 5th February 1798 in Rothbury All Saints Church. They had at least 5 children, including my 3 x great grandfather, James Charlton Hindhaugh, born in Rothbury  around 1814.

Photographs and images courtesy of Northumberland Communities

Town plan of Rothbury in 1800.

Look just right of centre, for the house

of Robert Hindhaugh.

All Saints Church, Rothbury in 1920.

View of Rothbury from the south in 1920        

James Charlton Hindhaugh

( 1814 - 1883 )

married 1837

Isabella Pattison

( 1811 - 1866 )

Robert

born 1840

Mark

( 1843 - 1904 )

married

Margaret Hopper

William

born about 1844

Elizabeth

born 1846

Mary

born about 1849

Esther

born 1851

   My 3 x great grandfather, James Charlton Hindhaugh, was born about 1814 in Rothbury. He married Isabella Pattison on the 18th November 1837 at St Helen's Anglican Church  in Longhorsley, about eight miles southeast of Rothbury. This was the first Hindhaugh marriage recorded since Civil Registration had begun on the 1st July 1837. Isabella was born on the 21st April 1811 in Rothbury to parents, Mark Pattison and Elizabeth Thompson.

   James & Isabella  would have lived in Longhorsley for a few years, as their first child Robert, was born there around 1840. However, by 1844 they had  moved back to Rothbury, where they had another three children, Mark (my 2 x great grandfather) born in 1843,  William about 1844 and Elizabeth in 1846. They then again moved southeast, and by the time of the 1851 census were living with two more children, Mary and Esther, in Widdrington Station, about 6 miles east of Longhorsley.

   By 1861 they had moved over twenty miles south, and were living in Winlaton, in County Durham. James was aged 47 and on the 1861 census his occupation listed simply as labourer. Late in 1866, James' wife Isabella died, aged 54. James remarried five years later, on the 30th January 1871 to Alice Dowley at All Saints Church in Newcastle upon Tyne. Alice Dowley nee Robinson was also widowed, her first husband William Dowley had died in 1859 after only six years of marriage. This one was to last only nine years, as Alice herself died early in 1880, aged 54.

   In the 1881 census James was living in Gateshead with his eldest son Robert, who had remained unmarried, and Alice Dowley's daughter from her first marriage, also called Alice. The address was 1 Park House Cottages, Gateshead and this was James' last residence. He died there on the 19th November 1883 aged 69. Cause of death was given as heart disease, congestion of lungs, and congestion of kidneys. His occupation listed as chemical labourer; his son Robert present at the death.

St Helen's Anglican Church, Longhorsley

Courtesy of Northumberland Communities

James Hindhaugh 1851 Census

Widdrington Station, Parish of Ulgham

James Hindhaugh 1861 Census

Winlaton, County Durham

James Hindhaugh 1881 Census

Gateshead

Mark Hindhaugh

( 1843 - 1904 )

married 1867

Margaret Hopper

( 1849 - 1906 )

Thomas

( 1867 - 1930 )

married

Margaret Musgrove

William

( 1868 - 1925 )

married

Elizabeth Ellwood

Mary

( 1871 - 1933 )

married

John Pimbley

Elizabeth

born 1873

married

John Jobson

James

born 1875

married

Susannah Alderton

Esther

born 1876

married

George Hewitt

Mark

( 1878 - 1945 )

Peter

( 1880 - 1955 )

married

Elizabeth Tailford

Robert

( 1881 - 1940 )

married

Agnes Wright

   My 2 x great grandfather, Mark Hindhaugh was born in  Rothbury on the 22nd December 1843. His 1851 & 1861 census return's can be viewed using the links above, as he was still living with his parents James & Isabella at that time. Mark married Margaret Hopper at the Cathedral of St Nicholas in Newcastle upon Tyne on the 19th January 1867. Margaret Hopper was born in 1849 in Coxlodge, South Gosforth, daughter of Thomas Hopper and Mary Newton.

   By 1871 they were living nearby in Benton, South Gosforth with their three children, Thomas, William & Mary Isabella; all born in Benton. Mark's occupation on the census of that year was 'coal miner waggon man', and it was likely he worked at nearby Gosforth Colliery.

   Over the next decade evidence suggests the family moved house three or more times. Their fifth child James was born in 1875, a little further north at Earsdon village, in  Tynemouth Parish and Mark, their seventh, born a lot further south, at Stanley in County Durham. By 1881, they had settled in the village of Hazlerigg in the parish of Longbenton, some five miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne. Again, Mark was most likely working at the local Hazlerigg colliery. Shortly after this in 1881, my great grandfather Robert Hindhaugh was born in the village.

Civil Registration Index

  The eldest Hindhaugh to have lived according to the Civil Registration of Deaths, was a Susannah Hindhaugh. Born as Susannah Alderton in Burradon in 1875, she first married a William Whitnall in 1898, who unfortunately died in 1901 aged only 25 years. In 1903 she married my great grand uncle James Hindhaugh. Susannah passed away in 1976 aged 101.

   The 1891 & 1901 census' put Mark and his family nearby in the village of Burradon. By 1901, Mark and his six sons were all working in the coal mining industry in some form or another. Three years later Mark Hindhaugh died in Burradon, on the 5th November 1904 aged 60 years. The cause of death given simply as heart failure. His wife, Margaret, died two years later in 1906 aged 58.

Mark Hindhaugh 1871 Census

Benton, South Gosforth

Mark Hindhaugh 1881 Census

Hazlerigg, Longbenton

Mark Hindhaugh 1891 Census

Burradon, Killingworth

Mark Hindhaugh 1901 Census

Burradon, Killingworth (PDF)

Robert Hindhaugh

( 1881 - 1940 )

married 1904

Agnes Wright

( 1885 - 1956 )

Lillian

born 1904

married

John G. Williams

Joseph W.

( 1906 - 1968 )

married

Elizabeth Vincent

Mary I

born 1908

Robert W.

( 1909 - 1979 )

married

Florence Armstrong

William N

( 1912 - 1937 )

Thomas

( 1913 - 1913 )

David

( 1921 - 1921 )

   My great grandfather, Robert Hindhaugh was born in Hazlerigg, in the parish of Longbenton, on the 13th October 1881. For his 1891 & 1901 census', see links above. Robert married Agnes Wright on the 5th March 1904 at Killingworth Parish Church. Agnes Wright was born in nearby Annitsford in 1885, daughter of Joseph Wright & Jane Scobbie.

   Robert Hindhaugh died in Annitsford, Longbenton on the 20th March 1940 aged 58. Cause of death was given as cerebral haemorrhage. His wife Agnes died in 1956 aged 71.

Joseph Wright Hindhaugh

( 1906 - 1968 )

married 1935

Elizabeth Jane Vincent

( 1912 - 1975 )

   My grandfather Joseph Hindhaugh was born in Camperdown, Northumberland on the 14th January 1906. Joseph married Elizabeth Jane Vincent on the 26th January 1935 at Seaton Delaval Methodist Church. Elizabeth was born on the 12th November 1912 in Holywell, nr Seaton Delaval to parents Frederick Vincent & Elizabeth Frances Bateman.

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