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From: "Malcolm Borrowdale" <>
Subject: Re: [LAN] Sunderland
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:23:35 +0100
References: <02b701c13304$1a24f540$2b297bd5@homemade>


Sunderland (or Sunderland Point) was once an "out port" for Lancaster where
ships could load or unload either onto the mudflats or into smaller vessels
and avoid the difficult passage up the Lune to Lancaster. It can be reached
on foot at any time but by road only at low tide - the road beyond Overton
is covered by the sea twice a day. I suppose the few people who live there
must arrange to stay somewhere else when it's going to be high water at
going to work time. The old road from Lancaster to Overton was also tidal
and the Golden Ball pub is not accessible by road at high water.
Find Sunderland (Point) on a map by going to www.streetmap.co.uk click on UK
place and type in Sunderland then select Sunderland (Lancashire)

Malcolm Borrowdale (Swinton, Lancs.)

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter James Smith <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [LAN] Sunderland


> Hi Sally,
>
> I know I'm coming in days after your enquiry....but I just wanted you to
> know, that there in an area near to Lancaster which is called Sunderland
> Point.
> When I have read censuses for that area...the enumerator has just quoted
> place of birth as ....Sunderland...(If my relatives hadn't taken me to
visit
> this beautiful tidal area.... I would just have assumed that occupants had
> come from Sunderland in the North East of England).
>
> Regards,
> Sheila, Fife. Scotland.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sally Heeren" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [LAN] Sunderland
>
>
> > Thank you for the response. Thanks to all of you who responded. I'm
sure
> > glad I asked & didn't keep *assuming*. <g>
> > Sally
> >
> >
> > > Sunderland is quite a large industrial town - sorry, it's a City these
> > > days - on the coast of County Durham a few miles SW of Newcastle on
> Tyne.
> > >
> > > Malcolm Borrowdale (Swinton, Lancs.)
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Sally Heeren <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:50 AM
> > > Subject: [LAN] Sunderland
> > >
> > >
> > > > On a 1934 death certificate from KY, USA, the birthplace of the
> parents
> > is
> > > > given as Sunderland, England. I haven't found the town these people
> > came
> > > > from yet but do have them from Northumberland... I have just
assumed
> > that
> > > > whoever was taking down the information had misunderstood the work
> > > > Northumberland & put down Sunderland... but then I realized that I
> > > shouldn't
> > > > *assume*... <vbg>
> > > >
> > > > So, I'm asking... is there a place called Sunberland in Great
Britain?
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > > Sally
> > > > TN USA
> > > >
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