b.3. Joseph RITCHIE, ged. 18/04/1813

b.3.  Joseph, ged. 18/04/1813, Heworth, Durham, Engeland x 03/06/1837, St John, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, Engeland met Ann STAFFORD, geb. 1815, Kenton, Northumberland, Engeland.

Joseph was die seun van Joseph Ritchie en Jane Purvis.

(http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2677)

In 1870-72, beskryf John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Heworth as volg:  Heworth, a town, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Jarrow parish, and Gateshead district, Durham. The town stands adjacent to the river Tyne, and to the Darlington and Brandling railway, near Pelaw Junction station, 2½ miles ESE of Gateshead; and has a post office under Gateshead.-The township lies partly within Gateshead borough; includes the chapelries of St. Albans and Felling, constituted in 1843 and 1866; and comprises 2, 786 acres of land, and 67 of water. Real property, £27, 435; of which £9, 286 are in mines, £938 in quarries, and £700 in iron works. Pop. in 1851, 8, 869, in 1861, 10, 315. Houses, 1, 570. The increase of pop. was caused by the extension of chemical works. Pop. of the part within Gateshead borough, 838. Houses, 132. Ship building is carried on in several yards; coal is extensively mined and exported; and paper, pottery, glass, and chemicals, are manufactured.—The chapelry was at one time couterminate with the township, but was curtailed and made ecclesiastically parochial in 1843. Rated property, £19, 902. Pop. in 1861, 7, 680. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £234.* Patrons, Lady James and Thomas Drewett Brown, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1822; is in the pointed style, with an embattled tower; and contains 668 sittings. A monumental column is in the churchyard, commemorative of the death of 91 persons, in 1812, by an explosion in Felling colliery. There are a national school and a mechanics' institution. -the sub-district is conterminate with the township.  (http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2677)

Event Date 1841
Event Place (Original) Longbenton, Northumberland, England
Registration District Tynemouth
Event Type Census
Residence Note Wapping
Name Joseph Ritchey
Sex Male
Age 25
Birth Year (Estimated) 1812-1816
Birthplace Northumberland
Page Number 10
Piece/Folio 822/26
Registration Number HO107

Event Date 1841
Event Place (Original) Longbenton, Northumberland, England
Registration District Tynemouth
Event Type Census
Residence Note Wapping
Name Ann Ritchey
Sex Female
Age 25
Birth Year (Estimated) 1812-1816
Birthplace Northumberland

Event Date 1851
Event Place Long Benton, Northumberland, England
Registration District Tynemouth
Event Type Census
Name Joseph Ritchey
Sex Male
Age 37
Birth Year (Estimated) 1814
Birthplace N K, Durham
Marital Status Married
Occupation Coal Hewer
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Page Number 15
Piece/Folio 2411 / 66
Registration Number HO107

Event Date 1851
Event Place Long Benton, Northumberland, England
Registration District Tynemouth
Event Type Census
Name Ann Ritchey
Sex Female
Age 35
Birth Year (Estimated) 1816
Birthplace Gosforth, Northumberland
Marital Status Married
Relationship to Head of Household Wife
 
Tydens die 1861 census het Joseph Ritchie, geb. 1812 en sy vrou Ann, geb. 1815 met hulle vyf kinders (Joseph, William, Watson, Michael en Mary A.) by die adres, Benton Sq Longbenton gewoon. Joseph was ‘n steenkoolmyner en twee van sy seuns Joseph (19) en William (18) was ook steenkoolmyners.





The village of Long Benton is situated about three miles north-east by north from Newcastle. The bridge spanning the rivulet a short distance to the north of the church, on the road to Killingworth, is situated in a secluded valley, a short distance north-east of the village, and was almost entirely rebuilt in 1791. A school-room, with a residence for the master, was built by the parishioners, on the Waste at the east end of the village of Long Benton, for which they pay a ground rent of one shilling to the lords of the manor. The rent is first entered as paid in 1814. Benton square is a colliery hamlet in this township, situated five and a half miles N.N.E. of Newcastle. (http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/northumberland/longbenton.html)





Event Date 1881
Event Place Bedlington, Northumberland, England
Registration District Morpeth
Event Type Census
Residence Note First Row
Name Joseph Ritchey
Sex Male
Age 68
Birth Year (Estimated) 1813
Birthplace Backworth, Northumberland, England
Marital Status Married
Occupation Coal Miner
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Page Number 31
Piece/Folio 5116/129
Registration Number RG11

Event Date 1881
Event Place Bedlington, Northumberland, England
Registration District Morpeth
Event Type Census
Residence Note First Row
Name Ann Ritchey
Sex Female
Age 66
Birth Year (Estimated) 1815
Birthplace Kenton, Northumberland, England
Marital Status Married
Relationship to Head of Household Wife

Event Date 1891
Event Place (Original) Bedlington, Northumberland, England
Enumeration District 10
Registration District Morpeth
Event Type Census
Name Joseph Ritchie
Sex Male
Age 79
Birth Year (Estimated) 1812
Birthplace Durham, England
Marital Status Widowed
Occupation Retired Coal Miner
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Event Place Note Bedlington Station
Page Number 16
Piece/Folio 4257/ 75
Registration Number RG12

Kinders:

c.1.  Jane RITCHIE, geb. 1838, Gosforth, Northumberland

c.2.  Robert RITCHIE, geb. 1840, Long Benton, Norethumberland

c.3. Joseph RITCHIE, geb. 1842, Benton, Northumberland

c.4. William RITCHIE, geb. 1843, Benton, Northumberland

c.5. Watson RITCHIE, geb. 1851, Benton, Northumberland

c.6. Michael RITCHIE, geb. 1854, Benton, Northumberland

c.7. Mary, A, RITCHIE, geb. 1857, Benton, Northumberland