Hi Jordy, thanks for your interesting post. I've not done any research for ages and it was pure chance that I saw your post. I was tracing the female line back from my Mother and got as far as Elizabeth Baird nee Knox. I couldn't find her marriage to William Baird or anything about her parents. I had that she was a native of Hagdon and William was a native of Doddington and a miner. Elizabeth was born 1816, a previous Elizabeth born 1815 died. It seems that Warensford was where Presbyterians baptised their children but they married at Eglingham. I had guessed the birth of Elizabeth Knox to be c1796 so 1792 fits, but I couldn't find it so well done and thanks. I had come up with a few likely parents, including a John Knox but it's such a popular presb. name, there are loads of them!
There were lots of open coal mines in the area back then, a big family of Bairds lived and mined around Eglingham but I've not linked them with mine.
I've put a couple of interesting links below, showing Hagdon and surrounding area, if you click on more images there are 11, you'll see it's a remote farm, another remote farm to the north is Haughterslaw, where William Baird lived, a track/footpath goes from there to Hagdon and on to Eglingham, so that must be how he met Elizabeth!
You've got me interested again now Jordy, I'll have to do more research. What is your connection?
Kind regards, Billy.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=55137152http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/208c685c-0efc-461a-87e5-4527cbbefa59
