Photocopies and photographs
Reference: D/Ph 513 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Moor House, Leamside
Covering Dates: 1920s
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The Boyd Family lived in Moor House from at least 1891, as they are recorded there on the 1891 Census. George Fenwick Boyd, a local solicitor and Justice of the Peace, died in 1909. His wife Janet was an ardent suffragette. She is recorded in local newspapers for failing to pay her taxes in protest over female suffrage (Durham Advertiser, 30 May 1913). She was also arrested for breaking windows in Oxford Street, London, in 1912. Her case was heard in March 1912 and she was sentenced to six months hard labour, but released early on 23 June 1916 on grounds of ill health.
Janet and her family left Moor House in about 1925 to live in their Welsh country house. The house was later demolished and a Scout/Girl Guides adventure centre built on the site.
These photographs were deposited by John Lowrie, who owned the farm adjacent to Moor House and played there as a child. His family appear there on the 1939 Register, but not the 1911 Census.
Ref: D/Ph 513/1/1
