« Reply #6 on: Saturday 15 September 18 11:43 BST (UK) »
Apologies for not replying earlier, sometimes living folk get in the way!
Thank you all for your useful suggestions. The pedigree has always been a sheet of paper, printed on one side only. I don't think it came from a book, at least I have never been aware of such a possibility. Unfortunately my father-in-law, who provided the pedigree, has just passed away and none of his children are interested enough to have enquired about it's origins.
IJDisney, I hadn't twigged that the Dr Steavenson referred to was probably W E Steavenson, I had assumed it was Robert MD Newcastle Infirmary. It would make more sense for the silver cup to be passed to the eldest son Joseph of Shantock Hall. I have wills for John Steavenson (married Elizabeth Graham) and all his children (except John jnr) and there is no mention of the cup. I do know that Elizabeth's father left her £300 on attaining 21 years or her marriage.
Rosinish, I think you have the correct Robert H Allan. I read somewhere that his father had a personal printing press at Blackwell Hall (Grange).
The statement about the family descending from Derbyshire Stevenson's is incorrect I believe (having studied three generations of wills from that family I was unable to find any links) but the family were using those COA in the 1830's so someone must have started researching at least as early as that. I thought this could have been Addison Thomas, maybe triggered by his marriage to a Strother who had a long pedigree of her own. I guess other family members continued the work so this pedigree is a collaborative effort.
As a matter of note where a capital B has been used it denotes that person's admittance to the Freemen of Berwick, usually around the age of 21, not their birth year!
Newson, Steavenson, Walker, Taylor, Dobson, Gardner, Clark, Wilson, Smith, Crossland, Goldfinch, Burnett, Hebdon, Peers, Strother, Askew, Bower, Beckwith, Patton, White, Turner, Nelson, Gilpin, Tomlinson, Thompson, Spedding, Wilkes, Carr, Butterfield, Ormandy, Wilkinson, Cocking, Glover, Pennington, Bowker, Kitching, Langhorn, Haworth, Kirkham.