The church of St. Germain, Marske. All except the tower was demolished
in the 1950s.
The remaining tower of the church of St. Germain, Marske. 2001
View towards the sands at Redcar from the church of St. Germain, Marske. 2001
John and Margaret had 10 children:
Thomas Hood (15
February 1827 - 20 July 1845)
Jane (9 August 1828 -
20 January 1867) Jane married George WARDMAN on 13 September 1853
Alice (b. 15 October 1830) Alice married M William SIMPSON in 1860 in Great Boughton
Margaret (18 March 1833 - 5 May 1880)
John (12 September 1834 - December 1915) Elizabeth Hood
(5 April 1836 - 21 December 1853)
William Allan (23
July 1838 - 18 March 1903)
Richard (22 September 1840 - 9 January 1901) Charles Maude
(17 November 1842 - 20 October 1918)
At the time of the 1851 census John Potts
and Margaret were living at 21 Zetland Square (Fishermans Square). In 1871 Margaret, by this time a widow, was living at 12
Fishermans Row. South Terrace, or 'Fishermans Square' as it is popularly known, was one of the traditional centres
of the fishing community. In September 1854 cholera broke out in Redcar. There were eight deaths in the town, seven of which
occurred in Fisherman's Square, which was described in the contemporary press as a dirty and ill-ventilated place. The
property was owned by the Earl of Zetland, who ordered the whole of the square to be pulled down and replaced with an entirely
new street for the fishermen. It was a row of twenty-two terraced houses built 'with every sanitary improvement calculated
to prevent the recurrence of the disease'. The row was directly to the south of the original square and called South Terrace.
The houses were all painted red and had a window blocked to save paying window tax. In the centre of the row is a lookout
position from which a watch could be kept for fishing boats returning and in times of storm for vessels in distress. Behind
the terrace are pigsties and a row of bait-houses, where nets and tackle would be stored and maintained, and a boat park at
the front.
South Terrace with the 'Zetland' lifeboat, about 1870
South Terrace, 2001
The lookout position in the centre of South Terrace, 2001
