Is there a big house or farm near Kirkpatrick Durham? Mary Porteous (born 1834 Kirkmichael) was a servant in Kirkpatrick Durham in 1851. By 1854 she had moved to Kent - but why? She married a shepherd and never went back. Possibly she was a servant in a household which spent some part of the year in Kent. Any ideas on how I might find where she was a servant?