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Northumberland / Re: Bruntons of Cullercoats?
« on: Saturday 07 January 12 18:20 GMT (UK)  »
Hi - thanks for the messages Carol and JenB. I have sent you a PM carol to try and fill you in on what I know.

That is our mob for sure Jen B. Many thanks for taking the time out to help. Marion Hilda always got Hilda and that was whom my great aunt was named after.

Mary Alice had two daughters, Doreen and Hilda... Doreen being my grandma.

Thanks again, Cam

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Northumberland / Re: Bruntons of Cullercoats?
« on: Tuesday 29 November 11 17:07 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Diddymiller. That is certainly my mob. I suspect the other lot you uncovered would be a brother and Jacob, their son would be an uncle (the one mentioned in the lifeboat disaster that survived. Mary Alice Brunton would be my great grandmother. She married a Smith who is very easy to find in the records because his father was a miner that went to the USA (Kansas) and this is where he was born. He came back to Yorkshire and must have met Mary Alice Brunton while working in one of the many pits around the North East.

I really appreciate the time you have taken to help me.

Thank you.

Cam

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Northumberland / Re: Robson's Bywell & Corbridge 1690 to 1840
« on: Tuesday 22 November 11 13:53 GMT (UK)  »
Just as a side point did any Robsons here take part in the Newcastle University DNA project?

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Durham / Re: Bainbridges of Durham
« on: Tuesday 22 November 11 13:43 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the responses guys! I will chase any suggested leads. I'm not sure that Mr Lewis will take kindly to me turning up with my family tree claiming some rights lol

Many thanks again.

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Cumberland / Re: Graham's of Cumberland
« on: Tuesday 22 November 11 13:39 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Bob... I agree. My DNA results came back with many other names that would be well known to the wardens of old... Irvings, Armstrongs, Elliot etc. However I had many Johnstones. Far more than any others and it all points to an NPE. My guess (without a paper trail) is that a young pregnant Johnstone widow travelled the few miles from Annan to Esk and married in to the Grahams. The Maxwells did have a habit of attacking the Johnstones from time to time!

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Cumberland / Re: Graham's of Cumberland
« on: Monday 21 November 11 16:09 GMT (UK)  »
These Grahams do like to confuse their ggggggrandchildren!

My Grahams trace back to a John Graham born c 1801 Blitterlees and is listed as a roadmarker in several of the later census returns. He appeared to marry Margaret? from walk mill Scotland (b c1796) and they had two sons, Adam Graham (1826) and John Graham (1831). Adam Graham is my ggg grandfather. He had one son John Grey Graham born in Wigton about 1854.

I am guessing here that Adam may have been illegitimate (that margaret may have been pregnant when marrying John) because why called the second son after the father and not the first? The other reason for this is that I have taken a DNA test and we are (as far as genetics are concerned) Johnstones and not Grahams.

Does this ring any bells with anyone?

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Durham / Bainbridges of Durham
« on: Monday 21 November 11 15:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hello everyone...

Just thought I would add my Bainbridges in to the pot on the off chance it may help someone (or myself) discover new leads.

Matthew Bainbridge (b. c,1835 Cleadon, Durham) married Jane Bainbridge (Rutter). They had quite a brood.

Christianna R Bainbridge*My gggrandmother m.John Gray Graham
Annie Bainbridge
Helena Bainbridge
Robert R Bainbridge
Jane K Bainbridge
Mary H AND Elizabeth Bainbridge (listed as twins in one census)
Elenor S Bainbridge
Matthew F Bainbridge
Sarah E Bainbridge
Isabella J Bainbridge.

I believe Matthew Bainbridge was the son of George and Elenor Bainbridge born c. 1795, Durham.

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Northumberland / Bruntons of Cullercoats?
« on: Monday 21 November 11 15:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

Just wanted to know if members had any info on the Bruntons of Cullercoats? I know they were mostly fisherfolk and had been in and aroound the area since the mid 1700s.

My great grandmother was Mary Alice Brunton and I know she had a brother Jacob Brunton involved in the cullercoats lifeboat disaster of 1939. Her father and mother were Hannah (nee Glendinning) and Joseph Brunton. Will try to collect some dates to help flesh this info out.

Many thanks, Cam

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Northumberland / Re: Photos of convicted criminals in Newcastle 1871 - 1873.
« on: Monday 21 November 11 15:09 GMT (UK)  »
Fantastic photos. Very sad to see an 11 year old sent down for seven days hard labour! Last year I visited Melbourne Old Gaol (of Ned Kelly fame) and I'm sure they had a display on Victorian attitudes to crime and how science was brought in to justify crime. Some scientists even had maps of the brain to study and explain how criminals were some how a genetic mutation. Thanks for sharing! The photo is a shot of the old gallows.

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