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Northumberland / Re: Scotland Gate
« on: Friday 23 August 13 19:45 BST (UK) »
Thanks, Hazel, I look forward to sharing!
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Northumberland / Re: Scotland Gate
« on: Friday 23 August 13 17:27 BST (UK) »
Lazytee,
Forgive me being a Newbie, but are your Morpeths at Scotland Gate related to Margaret Elliott bc1845 Pasture Hill Colliery, daughter of Robert Elliott and Eleanor Stephenson?
I am descended her brother Thomas Elliott who emigrated to Ballarat in Victoria, Australia in the 1850s, and have a family note of Margaret's children being Ellen, Robert, William, James, Emma and Annie Morpeth. Does this tie in with you?
Forgive me being a Newbie, but are your Morpeths at Scotland Gate related to Margaret Elliott bc1845 Pasture Hill Colliery, daughter of Robert Elliott and Eleanor Stephenson?
I am descended her brother Thomas Elliott who emigrated to Ballarat in Victoria, Australia in the 1850s, and have a family note of Margaret's children being Ellen, Robert, William, James, Emma and Annie Morpeth. Does this tie in with you?
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Durham / Re: Stephenson - rocket
« on: Friday 23 August 13 14:21 BST (UK) »
Newbie alert
Hi Sue1,
I think we might be related, as I am descended from the Eleanor Elliott who was visiting your John and Mary Kirkup in the 1861 census. She was married to Robert Elliott in 1828 at Embledon, and was born 1802 at Ford Moss, baptised Etal Presbyterian, to John Stevenson and possibly Mary. She had 2 bothers Andrew and James, and a sister Margaret that I know of.
We also have the story that she was a cousin of George Stephenson, and that when her husband Robert who had small collieries at North Sunderland, and Newton by the Sea, got into financial difficulties because he couldn't compete with Joicey as he was further from the railway, George offered him a post/money but he refused wanting to remain his own man. This is confirmed in an interview with their son Robert Elliott, the miner's poet, in the Newcastle Weekly 6 April 1912.
I haven't been successful in finding out just who John Stephenson's father was, or proving that he was the father of 'Old Bob' too - along with everyone else.
Anyway, Eleanor was supposed to have been blind, so would make sense if she was staying with a relative ie sister?
Hi Sue1,
I think we might be related, as I am descended from the Eleanor Elliott who was visiting your John and Mary Kirkup in the 1861 census. She was married to Robert Elliott in 1828 at Embledon, and was born 1802 at Ford Moss, baptised Etal Presbyterian, to John Stevenson and possibly Mary. She had 2 bothers Andrew and James, and a sister Margaret that I know of.
We also have the story that she was a cousin of George Stephenson, and that when her husband Robert who had small collieries at North Sunderland, and Newton by the Sea, got into financial difficulties because he couldn't compete with Joicey as he was further from the railway, George offered him a post/money but he refused wanting to remain his own man. This is confirmed in an interview with their son Robert Elliott, the miner's poet, in the Newcastle Weekly 6 April 1912.
I haven't been successful in finding out just who John Stephenson's father was, or proving that he was the father of 'Old Bob' too - along with everyone else.
Anyway, Eleanor was supposed to have been blind, so would make sense if she was staying with a relative ie sister?
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