Places: Coush House Winstanley

In the census of 1841 Edward And Jane Nixon are living at “Coush House Winstanley” where Edward has occupation Grocer.

It is not obvious where this place is. These are the census returns around that entry

• Page 15
  • “Hyland”? Cottage
  • Carpenter House
• Page 1 (new book?)
  • Jameson House
    • Head is John Nixon a Farmer, probably Edward’s father
  • Coush House has 3 households in it
    • Head is Edward Nixon a Grocer
    • Head is John Grimshaw
    • Head is Joseph Anderton a nail maker
  • New Houses Row has several households
    • Head is Nancy Hitchen?
• Page 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • New Houses Row continued
• Page 7
  • Hill House Farm
    • Head is Abraham Fairclough a Farmer
  • Sandforth Farm
    • Head is Mary Hitchen?
  • Hardness? Farm
    • Head is William Penny and Agricultural Labourer
• Page 8
  • Harber? Farm
    • Head is Robert Ellison a Farmer
  • Crow Nest Farm
    • Head is John Devenport a Farmer

This is the 1849 map of Winstanley, the Winstanley Estate to the left, then Slacky Brow (today’s Pemberton Road) then some houses

Hill House appears in the census, the dwellings to the north west of Hill House are marked as Jamieson Farm in the 1890 map, then “New Houses” are to the north west of that. There is no “Coush House”, and it does not appear on the Tithe Maps of 1838 either. It could be that Coush House is part of Jameson Farm which is where Edward’s father John lived.