East and West Rainton Townships, and Middle Rainton 1834

Are situated on the main road between Houghton and Durham. East Rainton  is about 1 mile from Houghton, Middle Rainton a mile and half from Houghton. In West Rainton is a chapel of ease to Houghton and an endowed school.

The Church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a fine stone building, in the French Gothic style, erected in 1864, on the site formerly occupied by a small chapel, built in 1825. The church consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower and spire at the north-west angle. The total cost of the church itself was £6000. The tower and spire, which is 130 feet high, was added in 1877, and was the gift of Sir George Elliot, in memory of his daughter. The church stands well from the road, within a spacious burial-ground, and will seat 500. The living is a rectory, valued at £405, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and in the incumbency of the Rev. George Dale Copeland, B.D."

( Whellan, London, 1894)

In the village of East Rainton in 1822 a birth of a baby girl,  named Mary Ann Robson, this girl, 20 odd years later would send shock waves to the North East of England. Who was she?. find out soon on this site.

Reading about the Raintons one article caught my eye.

    It was stated Mr Gordon Young clerk to the court, who was not aware the wooden huts were heated by oil stoves, one of which was believed to have been knocked over, and started the fire. An additional award of £11. 2s. 6d went to the girl's father George Pickering for special damages.

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