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From: "Fen" <>
Subject: [NMB] Fw: Location of Beckington
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:51:13 +0100


Pamela

It could be Bedlington Northumberland which was in Co Durham in the years
you mention

Fen Gales

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From: "Pamela Robson" <>
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Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 4:15 AM
Subject: [NMB] Location of Beckington


> Dear List,
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> Has anyone any idea where Beckington, Durham was/is?
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> I am searching a family living at Amble, Northumberland. They are David
> Hall (born Pateley Bridge, Yorks about 1805) and his wife Ann (born East
> Witton, Yorks about 1807).
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> I am endeavouring to establish Ann's maiden name and am hoping that I'll
> be
> able to do this via one of their children's birth registrations.
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> I have been in touch with Woodhorn and North Yorks records offices and
> there
> are no records of marriages for the couple in Northumberland, Durham,
> Pateley Bridge or East Witton.
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> In the 1841 and 1851 censuses the family is at Warkworth, Amble. In 1851,
> the two oldest children listed David and Mary, are recorded as having been
> born at Beckington, Durham. (In the 1841 census there is an older son,
> John,
> born about 1831, which suggests the couple married in the late 1820s/1830.
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> They have with them a family friend, Mary Bow born 1801, Gateshead. Could
> Beckington be somewhere in Gateshead?
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> Any thoughts on any of this would be hugely welcome.
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> Pamela
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