« Reply #2 on: Monday 13 March 17 16:09 GMT (UK) »
Terianne, the names you show match mine (almost) but I didn't figure the children as grand-children. Making one of the older men the father. I lost track of my John for 38 years, but then he married and had children. Now if I could resolve his past. I thought about the reivers, but most of that activity had ceased.
You're right about the reivers. I read a very thick book about them - can't recall the author or title. But when I was in Carlisle, the museum there has much about it. Was also in Newcastleton and Jedburgh a few weeks later. It's still alive in the air there, also in an area north of Bewcastle, just below the border. The church was built from the bricks of Hadrian's Wall. Much of the church shows the destruction of the Dissolution, but is still used for services. Bugs me because I can't recall the name of the church/hall/cathedral. It was sold to a major family of that time. Told you, it bugs me. THE NAME OF THE CHURCH IS LANERCOST PRIORY JUST OVER THE RIVER IRTHINGTON. WAS AT IRTHINGTON CHURCH ALSO. IT'S LITERALLY A HOP, SKIP, AND JUMP TO THE BORDER FROM EITHER LOCATION. BOTH LOCATIONS WELL WORTH A TRIP.
CUMLD: Davidson, Robson, Atkinson, Blackburn, Wilkinson, Mumberson, Milburn
CRNWL: Dawe, Bawden, Leming
CHES: Heginbotham
YRK: Dawe, Jackson, Ranson, Leming
LANC: Dawe, Harris, Thomas, Bellamy or Billany, Bayliff, Madsen
EAST SSX: Etchingham - Woolgar
SCT: RXB-Robson, REN & LNK-Lisle/Lyle/Leill, Taylor, Masson
WALES: Dawe
USA: MI - Dawe, Stringer, Lisle, Robson, Davidson, Mills, Handy, Betzner, Leeper, Fankboner, Ross, Lyle
IRE: Bell, Prestley/Priestley
GER: Wuerttemberg - Betz