Robert Rochester of Bishop Auckland

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Hi!
    Can anyone help with the following?

I have a Robert Rochester born circa 1730, died 22 September, buried 25 September 1804 at St Andrews Bishop Auckland Durham.

Cant find any baptism for him at all in any county!

Robert married his first wife Eleanor Willson on 14 February 1758 at Auckland and had:

Elizabeth 20 Aug 1758
Robert 9 Aug 1760, d 28 Aug 1760
Susanna 9 Aug 1760, d 7 Sep 1760
Susanna 11 Oct 1761
Robert 22 Mar 1764, d 4 Apl 1764
Jane 22 Mar 1764, d 14 Jul 1769
Mary 12 Apl 1767

Eleanor Rochester (nee Willson) was buried on 8 October 1767 at Auckland St Andrews.

Robert then married on 27 Nov 1769 at Auckland St Andrews Ann Dick (1733 - 1817) daughter of William Dick and Elizabeth Watson. He had further issue:

Henry 11 Nov 1770
Anne 14 Feb 1773
Isable 20 Aug 1775
Robert 19 Jul 1778
Jane 10 Feb 1782

All children were baptised at Auckland St Andrew. If anyone can help with Roberts parentage or that of his first wife Eleanor Willson I would be very grateful! I believe that Eleanor Wilson may be the daughter of a Thomas Willson and Mary Lambert who married at Auckland St Andrews on June 3 1731.

[Neil Todd]

Possibly Northumberland.

From Surname History: This interesting name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational surname deriving from the town in Kent called Rochester, or, in some few instances, from a much smaller place in Northumberland with the same name.

Neil