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I was happily going along with all the Matthew Cutters in my family until yesterday.
The definate one I have is Matthew Cutter in Corbridge baptised 1692, father Matthew, and married to Susannah Nixon in 1718. There is a probate record which I thought must be him dated 1759 giving his occupation as Blacksmith.
Now here's where it gets tricky...the only baptism for my Matthew on Family Search and the Corbridge Registers is a baptism in 1670 with yet another Matthew as father.
Yesterday I came across an interesting document on Documentsonline stating....
"Short title: Cutter v Cutter.
Document type: Bill only.
Plaintiffs: Matthew Cutter, blacksmith, Joseph Cutter, yeoman, Charles Cutter, tailor and Thomas Cutter, yeoman all of Corbridge, Northumberland (only surviving brothers of Samuel Cutter, yeoman deceased late of Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire), Anthony Hobson, yeoman of Whale Lowther, Westmorland and Jane Hobson his wife (said Jane Hobson is the only child of John Cutter, yeoman deceased late of Aydon, White House, Corbridge who was another brother of said Samuel Cutter).
Defendants: Ann Cutter.
Date of bill (or first document): 1750. "
Checking all the names gives all the sons except Matthew a father called Charles.
Am I missing something here? My Matthew (1692?-1759) named his eldest son Charles
Hope you can understand all this, it's a bit mind muddling
Sylvia

I'm trying to find out if this man left a will, can anyone help please?

Burial, St John, Newcastle Parish Register
John Newton of the Church Lane Woolen Draper, died 20th Oct, buried 22nd Oct 1806, age 43
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Death notice
Monthly Magazine and British Register Vol 22
Dec 1st 1806
At Newcastle Mr John Newton, 43

I've just found my g/gran attending Laxton St School, Southwark and a leaving date of 1889 is given (thank you Ancestry  ) She would have been aged 9 and this is 3 weeks before her father died of heart failure at the London Hospital.
My question is would she have actually left school at that age? She is listed as aged 21 on the 1901 census as a cook, domestic at a house in Fairfax Rd, Chiswick. Seems awfully young to be a cook in a large house? especially with such a lack of formal education 
Sylvia

Ok this will be a long shot sorry 

I have a 5x g/grandfather Richard Greaves who, according to records "came to work in Newcastle about 1730." He was a watchmaker
Various children were baptised from 1731 at All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne, mother noted as Mary.
I have torn my hair out trying to find a Richard marrying a Mary in or around Newcastle with no luck. So I thought I'd widen my choices with Familysearch.

The likeliest candidate is Richard Graves marrying Mary Wren in Crosthwaite in 1725 and I wonder if the Parish Records would give the Groom's occupation.
Can anyone help please??

PS. A very distant cousin of my Richard married the son of the Vicar of Crosthwaite 100 years later.....connection??? :-)
PPS A re-connection to Cumberland would feel very weird, I spent 10 years of my childhood there, in Seascale
many thanks, Sylvia