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From: "Russell Wear" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-GEORDIES] East Moor Edge, Newcastle
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:34:27 +0100
References: <BD18BD05.667F%p.bee@virgin.net>


I can't find my old map of Jesmond, but I seem to think that
Moor Edge was the old name for what is now St George's
Terrace.

Russell Wear


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bensimon" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:12 PM
Subject: [ENG-GEORDIES] East Moor Edge, Newcastle


> Hello
> Could anyone suggest where East Moor Edge might have been situated in
> Newcastle Upon Tyne? This is the address given by my gt-gt-grandfather
AMOS
> ROBSON at the time of his marriage to JANE (née ROBSON) at Newcastle
> Registry Office on July 4th 1859.
>
> As a Tynesider I am familiar with Newcastle and my guess is that it might
> have been somewhere in the vicinity of the eastern edge of the Town Moor,
> perhaps in the Jesmond area, particularly as the gentleman concerned is
> later to be found in the 1861 Census as the publican at The Collingwood
Arms
> at 41 North Street, Newcastle, which I presume is the pub of that name now
> situated behind Clayton Park Square in present-day Jesmond. However I
stress
> that my guess is just a guess.
>
> I have asked at Newcastle Central Library's Local Studies Centre about the
> location of East Moor Edge but they were unable to be of much assistance,
so
> I thought I would cut to the chase and consult the REAL experts.
>
> Any response would be gratefully acknowledged.
> Peter Bensimon
>
>
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