Ecclesiastical Census, 1816

Hepple:
Page 1 ELLIOTT is a considerable farmer under Sir J RIDDELL, has been eleven years in the parish, is married and has a son living with him who is also married. The couple have two children, a boy two years old, and a girl, just born. He keeps 2 female servants who are Presbyterian and one male (servant) who is Orthodox. The servants have only one Bible amongst them; the family have four prayer books and three Bibles.
Total: Persons 9, Prayer Books & Bibles: 4 of each
Page 2 Francis TATE is hind to ELLIOTT, has a wife and six children, four boys and two girls, the eldest is thirteen years old of those at home, but there is another, hind to NICHOLSON. They are Presbyterians and have two Bibles.
Total: 8 Persons, 2 Bibles
Page 3 William WILSON is a respectable farmer under Sir J RIDDELL. He is married to a daughter of George STOREY of Caistron , and by her has three sons and one daughter. He is a very regular churchman but his wife is a Papist. He keeps two male servants and two maids of whom one is Presbyterian. The rest come to Church. They have in the house four Bibles and three Prayer books.
Total: 10 Persons, 4 Bibles, 4 Prayer books
Page 4 George DAVISON is a barn man to Mr. W WILSON . He is married and has two daughters. Presbyterian.
ROBINSON is a shepherd to W WILSON, is married and has four sons. Presbyterian.
William CROZIER is hind to W WILSON. He is married and has one daughter and two grown sons. Presbyterian.
Total: 15 Persons
Page 5 RAMSEY is also Hind to W. WILSON. He is married and has three daughters and one grand daughter. His wife is troubled with a liver complaint. They are of the Church of England and have three Prayer Books and 2 Bibles.
Total: 6 Persons, 2 Bibles, 3 Prayer Books
Page 6 NICHOLSON is a respectable farmer. He is married and has two children, the eldest two years old, a son and a daughter. He has two brothers, young men, living in his house, and he keeps two maid servants and one man. The Servants go to the Meeting, (reference to the Presbyterian Chapel meetings in Thropton) the Family to the Church. They have two Bibles & four Prayer books.
Total: 9 Persons, 2 Bibles, 4 Prayer books.
Page 7 HALL is an old woman of ninety-two who has a son unmarried and a daughter who just lost her husband by whom she has two sons and one daughter. They are of the Church and have three Bibles and one Prayer Book.
WEAR is an old woman aged ninety, who lives by herself, next door to HALL's She is sister to ELLIOTT.
Total: 7 Persons, 3 Bibles, 7 Prayer Books.
Page 8 FLETCHER is an old man in his eightieth year . He is married and has two daughters. The family is remarkable for their cleanliness and industry and good manners. They have three spinning wheels in the house and two Bibles and two Prayer books and are saving money from their little earnings by spinning, to take in Burkett's Quanto Bible.
Total: 4 Persons, 4 Bibles, 4 Prayer books
Page 9 John FIFE is barn man to ELLIOTT, has a wife, three sons and six daughters. Presbyterian. They have two Bibles.
William GIBSON and his wife have three sons, one daughter and servant. Presbyterian. They have two Bibles.
Total: 18 Persons, 4 Bibles
Page 10 Peter CARR is a blacksmith, has a wife, a son - nine years of age, a daughter - not so old, and an apprentice. The appearance of the house and its inhabitants is pleasing. They attend the Church and have one Bible and one Prayer book.
Robert WEIR is shepherd to ELLIOTT. He is married and has five daughters and one son---the eldest is twelve years old. They are Presbyterian and have three Bibles.
Total: 13 Persons, 4 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book

Swindon:
Page 11 George PROUDLOCK and his wife have six sons and five daughters one Bible and one Prayer Book.
Lewis PROUDLOCK and his wife have two sons and seven daughters - one Bible and one Prayer Book.
Total: 28 Persons, 2 Bibles, 2 Prayer Books
Page 12 John PROUDLOCK and his wife have one son . Presbyterian, have one Bible.
Benjamin RENSHAW is married and has one son and daughter. Presbyterian. They have two Bibles.
William WAUGH has a wife, four daughters, two sons, one grandson, one Bible and is Presbyterian.
Total: 16 persons, 4 Bibles
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Caiston:
Page 14 George STOREY is one of the first farmers in the Parish and is the principal partner in the brewery at Rothbury. He is married to a Papist and has besides some children grown up and settled elsewhere, two sons at home and a daughter, a grand daughter (Dorothy RICHARDSON) left an orphan by the death of her Father - is under his care. One of the sons & the daughter follow the religion of their Mother. They have two female servants and one male. Two of these are Catholic and the other Presbyterian. There are in the house four Bibles and four Prayer books. George STOREY has a plough made of cast iron which weighs one stone less than the wooden ones and costs four pounds and twelve shillings.
Total: 9 Persons, 4 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books
Page 15 William REDPATH is hind to G. STOREY, is married and has one son and one daughter, the eldest is nineteen. They have three Bibles and one Prayer book. The house is very neat and clean.
Joseph WEATHENSON is Shepherd to G. STOREY, has a wife four sons and one daughter, the eldest fifteen. They are Presbyterian and have three Bibles.
Total: 12 Persons, 6 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
Page 16 John ROBSON is Hind to G. STOREY, he has a wife, one son, three daughters - the eldest seven years old. There is a great appearance of industry and comfort in the house. They have two Bibles.
James TUES aged seventy eight and his wife live by themselves in great poverty and yet are contented. They only have two shillings a week allowed them by the Parish and the old woman earns about two pence a day by spinning and on this they live without a murmur. They have one Bible and one Prayer book.
Total: 8 Persons, 3 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
Page 17 James HOWEY is an industrious weaver, he has a wife, two sons and one daughter at home and one away, the eldest twenty two years of age. They have two Bibles and two Prayer books.
Sarah PYNN is sister to the late school master of Caiston. A sister lives with her who has a bastard daughter one year old. They have one Bible and two Prayer books.
Total: 8 Persons, 3 Bibles, 3 Prayer Books
Page 18 Robert RAMSEY aged sixty-two is nephew to HALL who left the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds to the school at Caiston. He has some freehold property worth one hundred and twenty pounds per annum which George STOREY rents of him, but, of this, seventy pounds per annum are appropriated to the liquidation of his debits. He has a wife and six daughters all grown up, all unmarried and all doing nothing, the eldest about thirty. The house is as dirty as the inhabitants are idle. They have two bibles but not Prayer book though they are frequently at Church.
Mary GUTTENSON is a single woman. Cannot read.
Total: 9 Persons, 2 Bibles
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Flotterton:
Page 20 Mr. WEALLEN is a gentleman farmer married to a sister of E. DONKIN. He has a son and daughter, twins, about twelve months old - one male servant & three female - one of whom is Presbyterian. He has three or four Bibles & Prayer books but amongst the servants there is only one of each. No one attends Church more regularly.
Total: 8 Persons, 4 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books
Page 21 Henry CLARK is a married man, has two daughters and one son, the eldest is twenty-one. There is also an infant grandson. The house shows industry and cleanliness. They have one bible and five prayer books. One daughter lives with Mr. WEALLEN.
John WILSON is married and has two daughters, the eldest six years old. His house is not remarkably clean. They have four bibles and two Prayer books.
Total: 10 Persons, 5 Bibles, 7 Prayer Books
Page 22 James GIBSON and his wife are Presbyterians. They have two sons and a daughter - the eldest twenty five and two Bibles.
William DAVISON is a joiner, his Mother lives with him - a brother and a sister. He has two apprentices - of these one is a church-man and has a prayer book. The other and all the family are Presbyterian. There are four Bibles in the house which is dirty and the inhabitants ill favoured and ill mannered, except the joiner.
Total: 11 Persons, 6 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
Page 23 John JORDAN and his wife are Papists. This is the first Roman Catholic family that has occurred and the first in which no Bible was to be found. They have five sons - the eldest eighteen. The house is remarkably clean.
William DOUGLAS has a wife, two sons, and two daughters - the eldest nineteen. The apprentice of the house was highly creditable. They have one Bible and one Prayer book
Total: 13 Persons, 1 Bible, 1 Prayer Book
Page 24 Robert THOMPSON and his wife seem to be very deserving people. They have two daughters and one son - the eldest twelve, one Bible and one Prayer book.
Joseph HINDMARSH is married and has three sons - the eldest nineteen. They have two bibles and two Prayer books. The house is not very clean but it seems to be the fault of the hovel in which they live and not the inhabitants.
Total: 10 Persons, 3 Bibles, 3 Prayer Books
Page 25 Thomas TURNBULL is a Blacksmith, old and almost blind. Before his sight failed him, he never missed attending the Church and bears the loss of his devotions more heavily than the loss of his sight. He is married and has two daughters, a son, a grandson and they have two Bibles and four Prayer books.
Thomas PRINGLE and his wife have two sons, a daughter, a great nephew and five Bibles. they are a good sort of people but Presbyterian.
Total: 12 Persons, 7 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books
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Wreigh Hill:
Page 27 Robert SPROAT has a large farm under Mr. LISLE of Acton which he has now held for four years. He is married and has two sons and three daughters - the eldest eight years old. They have three Bibles and two Prayer books. their servants are one woman who is Presbyterian, and two men who sometimes go to Church and& sometimes to the meeting. they have one Bible and one Testament among them.
Total: 10 Persons, 4 Bibles, 1 Testament, 2 Prayer Books
Page 28 William WEATHENSON has two daughters - the eldest eight years old. He goes to the meeting, his wife to the Church. The house is very clean and inhabitants industrious. They have one Bible and one Prayer book.
Samuel WILLIAMSON and his wife have two sons and two daughters, the eldest not more than five years of age. This infant family makes it necessary for them to keep a servant girl. They are Presbyterian and have one Bible.
Total: 11 Persons, 2 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
Page 29 James THOMPSON has a farm under Miss DETCHIN and lives in a large wretched ruined house. They have one son and one daughter, the eldest twenty-seven. His wife is sixty years of age and hobbles about on crutches.
George FIFE and his wife are Presbyterian. A boy of DONKIN's lives with them. They have one Bible and Testament and one Prayer book, one psalm book.
Total: 7 Persons, 1 Testament, 1 Psalm Book, 5 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
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Plainfield:
Page 31 Mr. GREY was apprenticed to a grocer, married a woman who had fifteen hundred pounds, took a farm under Sir J. RIDDELL ( which estate was afterwards sold to ------) and manages it with the utmost economy. He has two sons and two daughters, three male servants and one female one. Two Bibles. He goes to the meeting at Thropton but calls himself a dissenter rather than a Presbyterian, a disciple of Belsham's and Paine's apparently in religion as well as politics he abuses constituted authority, admires himself prodigiously, and like other factious brawlers for freedom, plays the tyrant at home. His Cottagers are in a wretched plight. He was turned out of the room on Easter Tuesday, 1815, after dinner, for turbulance and licientiousness.
Total: 10 Persons, 2 Bibles
Page 32 Mary GALLON and her nephew are Papists but her son attends the Church. A servant girl lives with them who is Presbyterian. They have one Bible and one Testament.
Robert TELFORD, aged eighty-six and his wife, who is much younger a son of nineteen, who has long been sinking under a consumption a rude, disagreeable youth. They have two Bibles and are Presbyterian.
Total: 7 Persons, 3 Bibles, 1 Testament.
Page 33 James HOGG is Hind to Mr. GREY. He is Presbyterian and has a wife a son, and two daughters, the eldest five years old and he has one Bible.
George COXON is aged sixty-three, has been ten years hind to Mr. GREY and has a wife, two sons, three daughters, three Bibles goes to the meetings.
Ann STEWART is a poor widow with two daughters, the eldest thirteen, and two Bibles but one is spoilt.
Total: 15 Persons, 6 Bibles
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Windyside:
Page 35 Mrs. ATKINSON farms under Mr. PRINGLE. She has one son living and has just lost another by consumption. She has two male servants and two maids. There are six Bibles and two Prayer Books in the house but two of the servants are Presbyterian.
Robert DUNHILL is hind to Mrs. ATKINSON but on Mayday goes to Cartington Bankhead. He and his Mother are Presbyterian and have one Bible.
Total: 8 Persons, 7 Bibles, 2 Prayer Books

Silverside:
Page 36 Alice MORRIS aged sixty-seven and Elizabeth WATSON, aged seventy-two live together and pay one pound per annum. They keep clean and decent, each other earning two shillings a week by spinning. They used to attend the Church, but growing old, found it more convenient to save themselves a walk of two miles by going to the meeting at Thropton. They have two Prayer books and two Bibles.
Total: 2 Persons, 2 Bibles, 2 Prayer Books
Page 37 Alexander HEARNS is Hind to Mr. RENNISON and has three sons and two daughters, the eldest eleven years old. His wife is pregnant again and her sister lives with them. They are taking in a folio Bible in numbers of which they have about twenty, at one shilling each. They have no other Bible but three Prayer books.
Total: 8 Persons, 3 Prayer Books, a fraction of a Bible

High Trewitt:
Page 38 Mr. Isaac BOLAM is living for the present on Mr. ATKINSON's farm with his two sisters, their brother, John BOLAM ----------- the farm, having run away to escape justice after many frauds and forgeries his effects were seized and sold but the ruin thereby brought upon the rest of the family seems to be rather affirmed by themselves than believed by their neighbours. One female servant lives with them who is Presbyterian They have four Bibles and three Prayer books.
Total: 4 Persons, 4 Bibles, 3 Prayer Books
Page 39 George MATHER and his wife are Presbyterian. Their house is dirty and without a Bible. They have one son and four daughters, the eldest nine years.
George CUMMINS and his Mother who is seventy years old have two Prayer books and a Bible. They have a maid servant who goes to the meeting. The house is decent.
Total: 10 Persons, 1 Bible, 2 Prayer Books
Page 40 George DIXON and his wife have two sons and two daughters, the eldest six years old. They have one Bible and a clean house but go to the Meeting. This man in May 1814 bought a cow of his master, John BOLAM, for eighteen pounds for which sum he gave him a promisory note, payable six months afterdate in Nov 1814. He paid the money, but did not recover his note, which remained in the hands of the Banker, who now prosecutes him for payment.
Total: 6 Persons, 1 Bible
Page 41 Thomas NEVISON and his wife have one son, one servant girl, two Bibles. They are all Presbyterian, their house is exceedingly clean and neat.
John BLACK, his Mother and two female servants are Presbyterian and have two Bibles.
Robert CLARK is married and has two sons and a daughter, the eldest five years old. A sister lives with them. They have two Bibles and go to the meeting. The house is clean.
Total: 14 Persons, 6 Bibles
Page 42 Robert PRINDER and his wife have a daughter, six weeks old. They are Presbyterians and have two Bibles.
Harny PRINGLE is a widow with three sons and two daughters, the eldest twelve years old. Her Mother lives with them. They have one Bible and are Presbyterians. They are poor but their manners pleasing and decent.
Total: 10 Persons, 3 Bibles
Page 43 Thomas NEVISON is a Blacksmith, a sturdy Presbyterian and proprietor of the Meeting house in Thropton. His house is remarkably and comfortable and contains three Bibles. He is married and has two children one son and daughter.
John SWANN is a joiner, he and his journeyman are Presbyterians but his Father, Mother and sister, who live with him attend the Church. The sister spins a pound of yarn per day with a double handed wheel. there are three Bibles and two Prayer books in the house which has every appearance of comfort and industry.
Total: 9 Persons, 6 Bibles, 2 Prayer Books
Page 44 Mr. SMART
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Low Trewitt:
Page 46 Mr. BOGUE is lessee under his nephew who has a respectable freehold property in this part of the Parish. The nephew who does not reside, is of the established Church but the Uncle and all his family are Presbyterian. It consists of six sons and a daughter, the eldest sixteen years old. They have two men servants and two women, of whom one is Roman Catholic. There are six Bibles and one testament in the house.
Total: 13 Persons, 6 Bibles, 1 Testament
Page 47 Andrew MORTON is Hind to Mr. BOGUE, his family is Roman Catholic and consists of a wife, five daughters and a son, the eldest twenty- two. Another daughter is a servant to Mr. BOGUE. They also have no Bible but one New Testament and two Mass books.
William COUGHRON and his wife have two sons and one daughter and five Bibles. They are Presbyterian.
Total: 13 Persons, 5 Bibles, 1 New Testament
Page 48 James RIDDELL is married and has three sons, four daughters, the eldest being fifteen. They are decent and civil people but Presbyterian. They have a Bible and wish for three more.
William DIXON has lived eleven years under Mr., BOGUE. He is married and has a son and daughter, the eldest 10 years old. They are Presbyterian. They have four Bibles.
Total: 13 Persons, 5 Bibles
Page 49 George ORDE and his wife have two sons and a daughter, besides two who are out at service, the eldest twenty-one. The house is clean, the people civil, but Presbyterian. They have three Bibles.
John MAWBEY has lived twelve years under Mr. BOGUE. Two sisters, two nephews, and Mother, aged seventy-eight live with him. They have six Bibles and are Presbyterians.
Total: 11 Persons, 9 Bibles
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Snitter:
Page 51 Mr. PRINGLE is a considerable farmer with some freehold property of his own. His family consists of two sons, and five daughters besides two sons not at home, two male servants and two female. One of the sons and two of the servants attend Church regularly. The others are Presbyterian but yet occasionally come to Church. They have ten Bibles and five Prayer books.
Total: 12 Persons, 10 Bibles, 5 Prayer Books
Page 52 Mr. RENNISON, his three brothers and a sister hold a farm under M. REAY. They keep two male servants and one female. They are all of the established Church except one man servant who goes to the Meeting. There are two Bibles and five Prayer books in the house.
Total: 8 Persons, 2 Bibles, 5 Prayer Books
Page 53 Mary ROBINSON is a single woman, has a Prayer book but wants a Bible.
Joseph HODGSON and his family live in the state of filthiness which corresponds well with the foulness of their lives. His wife states that they have three bastard children in the house, one by her husband, another her son's and the third her daughter's, but the daughter is not at home. They have one Bible.
Total: 7 Persons, 1 Bible, 1 Prayer Book
Page 54 James TUES is married and has six daughters and a son, the eldest twenty-eight. One of the daughters is consumptive. The house not clean. They have a Bible and two Prayer books.
John POTTER is a Joiner. He is married and has three sons and three daughters, the eldest eleven years of age. Their house is ill kept. They are Presbyterian and have two Bibles.
Total: 17 Persons, 4 Bibles, 2 Prayer Books
Page 55 Mr. AMORY farms under the Duke of Northumberland is seventy- three and has been fifty three years in this Parish. His family consists of a wife, two daughters, a son who is married, a grandson, five male servants and one female. All are Presbyterian except one male servant who attends the Church. There are seven Bibles in the house.
Total: 13 Persons, 7 Bibles
Page 56 Thomas TUES is a mason and lives with his wife and mother-in -law in a very dirty house. He has three sons and three daughters, the eldest nine years of age. They have one Prayer book and one Bible and are taking in another.
Edward PRINGLE is a Joiner - seventy-five years of age, very infirm but still makes tables and chairs in a small dirty cottage. He has a little dog, remarkable for its long fine hair, which he cuts and makes stockings of it. He is a Papist and has one Bible. A niece lives with him.
Total: 11 Persons, 2 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
Page 57 John DAVISON and his Mother, aged seventy and her daughter have three Bibles and one Prayer book.
Henry WALLIS is Barn man to Mr. AMORY. He is married and has a daughter seven years old, one Bible, two Prayer books and a translation of Thomas ?Thenyis? and wants a Bible.
John WHITE is a shoemaker. He has a wife, a son, and two daughters, the eldest four years old, on Prayer book, one Bible, and another he is taking in in numbers. The house is well furnished but not very clean.
Total: 11 Persons, 5½ Bibles, 4 Prayer Books
Page 58 Mr. CARN is a freeholder - used to go to Church constantly but was driven away by the irregularities of WATSON and having a good voice was made clerk of the Meeting at Thropton. His wife as in duty bound goes to hear him sing but his brother still attends the Church. They seem to be worthy people, have two Bibles and want another and three Prayer books which they venerate but do not use.
Alexander BROWN is a Blacksmith, has a wife, two sons, and four daughters, the eldest sixteen, and three Bibles. One of their children is to be a free scholar. They are Presbyterian and have curtains to their bed.
Total: 11 Persons, 4 Bibles, 3 Prayer Books
Page 59 Mr. RICHARDSON lives upon a free hold farm. He and his wife, his son and his daughter have each a Bible and Prayer book. a female servant who goes to the Meeting has neither.
George BOLAM is Barn man to Mr. PRINGLE. He has a wife, and four sons, the eldest twelve years old. They are Papists and have no Bible but the children have Testaments to read at school. the house is dirty.
Total: 11 Persons, 4 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books, 3 or 4 New Testaments
Page 60 Mary MELVILLE is a Presbyterian and has a Testament. Her habitation is filthy and offensive.
Richard RICHARDSON is Hind to Mr. PRINGLE. He has a wife, a son, and three daughters. The eldest who is eleven could read the Bible before she was six. They are decent, well mannered people and have one Bible, one Prayer book and want two more.
John ALEXANDER is a labourer, tenant to Mr. STOREY. He has a wife, and two sons, the eldest four years old, one Bible and one Prayer book. their bed has curtains and their appearance is altogether decent.
Total: 11 Persons, 2 Bibles, 2 Prayer Books, 1 New Testament
Page 61 Andrew ORMSON is a ditcher tenant to RICHARDSON, has a wife and two sons and three daughters, the eldest nine years of age. the house is clean. they have one Bible.
Robert MORDEN and his wife have five daughters and a son besides one not at home, the eldest twenty. They have four Bibles and are Presbyterian.
Isabella URPETH is a strange half witted vagabond. She lives in a wretched, filthy hovel with two grown up daughters whom she will not suffer to work or learn anything. She gives all imaginable licence to her tongue and her hands and her character is like her dress, all in tatters. She has a prayer book and a Bible which she never uses though she's asked for others.
Total: 18 Persons, 6 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
Page 62 William BROWN and his wife have two sons and two daughter, the eldest twelve, besides five who are in service. they have one Bible and one Prayer book, and want a Bible with large print. The house is dirty.
James MAHER is Barn man to RICHARDSON and at the same time, a weaver too. He has a wife and three sons, the eldest twelve years old. they have one Bible and one Prayer book. the house is dirty.
Total: 11 Persons, 2 Bibles, 2 Prayer Books

Wharton:
Page 64 Mr. STONER hold a farm under Mr. ROBSON of Alnwick which he entered upon in 1814. He lives in a better house than most farmers and his wife seems to be better educated. It consists of a son and three daughters, all grown up. Mrs. STONER, the son, and three daughters are Papists. The rest attend the Church very regularly, so does one of their men servants. The other, and two maids go to the Meeting. there are three Bibles and four Prayer books in the house.
Total: 10 Persons, 3 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books
Page 65 John SAUNDERSON has lived thirty-one years under Mr. STONER. He has two daughters, one son and a grandson five years old. His wife goes to Church but the rest are Presbyterians. there are three Bibles and one prayer book in the house.
John LOGAN has lived ten years under Mr. STONER. His family consists of a wife, two sons, and a Mother in her ninetieth year. they are all Presbyterian except the Mother who has a Prayer book. The eldest son is twenty-one, lame of foot and desirous to teach school for which he seems sufficiently fit. They have one Bible and one testament.
Total: 9 Persons, 5 Bibles
Page 66 John WATSON is going at Mayday to Mr. SMITH. He has a wife, and two sons, the eldest fifteen, and two Bibles. - Presbyterians
Mr. SPEARMAN is a shooting and coursing farmer, a Batchelor and Presbyterian. He has three men servants of whom two are of the Church, the other a Presbyterian and one female servant who professes the established Religion but attends her Master to the meeting. They have three Bibles.
Total: 9 Persons, 5 Bibles
Page 67 William GRAHAM's family consists of a wife, a son, and three daughters, the eldest eight years old, and a brother-in-law. They are Presbyterian and have two Bibles and a clean house.
George ARKLE, aged seventy, and his wife, sixty-nine, have a Bible and a Prayer book. their cottage is as clean as could be expected under an open roof which is covered with cobwebs.
Total: 9 Persons, 3 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
Page 68 Alexander SWANN is an industrious Weaver in his sixty-eighth year, is married and has a daughter thirty years old, complains that Rothbury Beer bought at two pence a gallon is bad!, is going to live under Mr. STONER, has a clean copy of the Whole Duty of Manna Bible, a Testament and two Prayer books, and wants a Bible in large print.
Total: 3 Persons, 1 Bible, 1 Testament, 2 Prayer Books
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Thropton:
Page 70 Mr. DIXON has a free hold farm but lives on a less scale of expense than the generality of farmers. He is married and has a daughter, four Bibles, and six Prayer books. He keeps one male servant who is Presbyterian.
The Rev'd Mr. VESSIE is a minister of the Scotch Church, was invited by the Presbyterians of the Parish to settle amongst them - sells manuscript sermans, writes pamphlets and articles in the newspaper and expects preferment in Scotland. He is married and keeps only one maid servant.
Total: 7 Persons, 4 Bibles, 6 Prayer Books
Page 71 George SNOWDON and his wife are Papists. They have one daughter aged thirteen, and one Bible.
William COMMON is a taylor and has three apprentices, one Bible and two Prayer books.
Francis TREWICK keeps a Public House and has a wife, and a son, sixteen years of age, a female servant, a Bible and two Prayer books.
Total: 11 Persons, 3 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books
Page 72 William HAMBLE is married and has two sons, and three daughters, the eldest sixteen, two Bibles, and two Prayer books. An old woman, eighty years of age lives with them. The house belongs to Mr. BURNET.
Edward GREEN has only one daughter at home, who has been rewarded for her conduct at school. His wife is grievously ill, aged sixty-one, of a liver complaint. they have one Bible and one Prayer Book.
Total: 11 Persons, 3 Bibles, 3 Prayer Books
Page 73 John DAVEY is a Freeholder. His house is more clean and comfortable than could be augered from his character. He is notorious for frequent and riotous intoxication. His wife is sixty years of age. He has a son and daughter, grown up, four Bibles and four Prayer books.
Anne COMMON lives in a house of the DAVEYs. She is Mother to Mr. TROTTER, the school master who resides with her, and has one Bible and Prayer book. Aged sixty-three.
Total: 6 Persons, 5 Bibles, 5 Prayer Books
Page 74 George ROBINSON is tenant to J DAVEY and pays two pounds ten shillings for the rent of his house. He has a wife, a daughter, twelve years old, a Bible and a Prayer Book and wants a Bible.
Ann WILSON is sixty years old and has a grandson, a grand daughter, two Bibles and two Prayer Books. A proper object for Tomlinson's Fund.
Jane COCKBURN is a tenant to DIXON and has a son, a daughter, a Prayer book and a Testament.
Total: 9 Persons, 4 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books, 1 Testament
Page 75 John LENNOX is Hind to DIXON. He is married and has a son and daughter grown up, three Prayer books and a Bible besides eleven numbers of one folio which they are taking in.
Robert GREEN has a small Free hold. His demeaner is rather striking and his lineaments strongly marked with worth and honesty and the expression of a good heart. His family consists of one female servant and one boy. they have one Bible and three Prayer books.
Total: 7 Persons, 2½ Bibles, 6 Prayer Books
Page 76 Thomas GREEN and his wife have a son and daughter born in the last two years, a Bible and Prayer book. The house is clean and decent.
Mr. SMITH is a respectable old man, Father of the Rothbury school master, holding a farm under Mr. ATKINSON. He is married and has two sons at home and a female servant. there are three Bibles and four Prayer books in the house.
Total: 9 Persons, 4 Bibles, 5 Prayer Books
Page 77 William FORSTER is lately a widower, has two daughters and a son two Bibles and two Prayer books.
John FORSTER, brother to William, keeps a Public House. He has two sons and two daughters, the eldest then years of age, three Bibles and two Prayer books all very much worn and destroyed by the children. He is married.
Total: 10 Persons, 5 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books
Page 78 Robert YOUNG is tenant to the Reverend Mr. LOWTHER of Berkly, some property thereabouts having been purchased by Queen Anne's Bounty. fot the living. He is married and has one daughter and four sons the eldest who has now arrived at the age of twenty-one is a monster. The natural growth of his body being all transferred to his head, the enormous size of which forms a hideous contrast with his infantine diminutiveness of his limbs. He has no use of his legs and one arm. He speaks with difficulty and has learnt much that he ought not and little that he ought. He has frequent fits and is very passionate but otherwise unhappy. They have one Bible and Prayer book and a slovenly house.
Total: 7 Persons, 1 Bible, 1 Prayer Book
Page 79 George SCOTT, age sixty-six and his wife, age sixty-four. Keep a small shop sufficiently clean. they are Presbyterians and have one Bible and one Testament.
Robert WINTRIP is an industrious Joiner, first cousin to WINTRIP in the Forest, and tenant to Mr. ORPETH. His house is comfortable but his wife very ugly, nevertheless he has two fine daughters at school, besides two away and three sons. He has one Prayer book and sixty numbers of a folio bible, the small ones having been worn out by the children.
Total: 9 Persons, 1½ Bibles, 1 Prayer Book, 1 Testament
Page 80 Anne ORD is a widow who has just lost her husband, rents a room of WINTRIP, is a Presbyterian and has two Bibles.
James HENDERSON and his wife are Presbyterians with two daughters and a son.
Jane HUDSON is a widow tenant to Mr. ORPETH. She has three daughters and one son, the eldest ten years old, two Bibles and one Prayer book. The house is clean.
Total: 11 Persons, 4 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
Page 81 John HALL is a labourer - rents a house of William COMMON and has a daughter, a Bible and a Prayer Book. A Presbyterian woman lives with him.
Nanny FOGGON is a tenant to the same person. Her age is sixty-six. Her son lives with her. She is Presbyterian and has one Testament but no Bible - wants one.
Thomas HALL pays to guineas a year to ROBSON of Cartington for their house. they have one son, seven months old - one Bible and one Prayer book.
Total: 8 Persons, 2 Bibles, 1 Testament, 2 Prayer books
Page 82 John BOLAM is a tenant to ROBSON and keeps a small shop. He and his daughters - who are grown up are Papists - two of the girls are blind but are said to play exceedingly well on the fiddle. they have one Bible and one New Testament.
Dorothy DOUGLAS is a widow of sixty-five, tenant to one BRADY. She has two Bibles and two Prayer books and a clean house.
Margaret PHILLIP is a Presbyterian Mantun Maker, three years tenant to BRADY - has one Bible.
Total: 6 Persons, 4 Bibles, 2 Prayer Books, 1 New Testament
Page 83 Ann TURNBULL aged seventy-four is married to George TURNBULL, the Butcher. She goes to the Meeting though she says she has an aversion to the Church but at her age it is too far. She has one Testament and two Bibles, one of which one met a most extraordinary adventure. Her Husband, who is since dead, had taken a farm at Bornowtown but scarcely had they settled themselves in their new abode before a strange persecution was commenced by some invisible elf who broke all their things and threw about all their furniture in their presence, before their eyes, in open daylight without any apparent cause. the fame of this marvellous mystery was soon noised abroad and multitudes flocked to Bornowtown to witness the pranks of their mischevous eprite, among a
Page 84 Presbyterian Minister who observing a Bible upon on of the shelves asked weather the demon had ever made free with that book. the old woman answered that she believed it was the only thing in the house which never had been moved. She had scarcely done speaking when she beheld the Bible leave its shelf and with and even motion throw itself at the Ministers feet, half across the room. She ran to catch it in its passage but was too late. The chains were often dropped upon her from the air, but though everything that was frangible was broken, she herself was never hurt. She suspected infernal agency but feared no harm to herself, which she was confident would not be permitted by the Govenor of the Universe, but the immediate agent was supposed to be the last tenant of the farm who was then in the house and the persecution ceased at his departure.
Total: 1 Person, 2 Bibles, 1 Testament
Page 85 Robert ROBSON and his wife are clean and decent people - their cottage and a few acres of land they hold under the Duke of Northumberland. They have two daughters, the eldest fourteen years old. A brother and a Nephew live in the house which has besides two Bibles and three Prayer books.
The Reverend Mr. STOUT is a Romish Priest who has built a very good house by subscription adjoining to the Chapel. He was brought up at Douay France where he changed his religion, the rest of the family being all Protestants. One Female servant constitutes his entire house hold.
Total: 8 Persons, 3 Bibles, 3 Prayer Books
Page 86 Thomas YOUNG is a taylor who pays a rent of fifty shillings to Mr. STOUT for his house which is clean and comfortable. He is married and has three sons and two daughters besides two at place, the eldest twenty-one. they have two Prayer books and one Bible in good condition, besides three that have been worn out by the children at school. N.B. a large one wanted and deserved.
Mrs. HUTCHISON is sister to E. DONKIN. Two nephews and a niece live with her, one man servant and one woman. She has two Bibles and three Prayer books.
Total: 13 Persons, 3 Bibles, 5 Prayer Books
Page 87 Mary RUTHERFORD is a -----?---- Manter Maker ? who lives in the same house with Edward GREEN's family - on the left side. She is Presbyterian and has a Bible and a Testament.

West Field House:
Page 88 Mr. Robert BURN rents a farm under Mr. BELL of Rothbury of a hundred and ten acres for three hundred and fifty pounds. It was sold by John POTTS twenty-one years ago. He has a brother, a Mother, one male servant and one female who belongs to the Church but goes to the Meeting. He has a large folio Bible and a Prayer Book. His manners are remarkably pleasing. Dorothy DOBSON, an old woman of eighty is his aunt and lives hand by, she has a Prayer book and half a Bible
John BLAKEY is Barn man and has a wife and daughter - one Bible and two Prayer books.
Total: 9 Persons, 2½ Bibles, 4 Prayer Books

Chirnels:
Page 89 Michael WATSON and his wife are tenant to Samuel GARDINER of Lesbury - besides the house, they have three acres of land. their family consists of four sons and two daughters, but two are absent from home. The eldest son is married and has a son. Their library is composed of two Bibles and Prayer book and Fleetwood Life of Christ.
Total: 9 Persons, 2 Bibles, 1 Prayer Book
Page 90 Andrew ROBSON has three sons, the eldest only five years old. A sister-in-law lives with them. He is Roman Catholic and has a New Testament which is torn and dirty.
John ROBSON and his wife are of the same communion. they have four masons lodging with them, all Presbyterian. The ROBSONs have one Bible and the lodgers two.
Total: 11 Persons, 3 Bibles, 1 Testament
Snitter Lane:
Page 91 Francis AMORY and his wife are Whigs. They have two sons and four daughters, the eldest eleven. Their books are one bible and H??areysworks.
John STOREY, aged seventy is brother to STOREY of the ?"Hut ho"? lives upon his own free hold - is married and has one son and one daughter. All of them have their own Prayer books and there is one Bible for the family.
Total: 12 Persons, 2 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books
Sandilands:
Page 92 Mr. T AMORY and his wife have one son and six daughters, one man servant and one female, - 2/3 of the farm belongs to Mr. MAUGHAN and the other to Mr. WHITTON. they are Whigs and have three Bibles.
Total: 11 Persons, 3 Bibles

Whittle:
Page 93 Mr. GRAHAM, aged fifty, is married and has three sons and four daughters of whom the eldest is twenty-two. - Five of them are at home. He has farmed for twenty years under Mr. BECK of Newcastle. He is a nervous, irritable man and slovenly farmer. they have one Bible and three Prayer books.
Thomas FOX is Hind - has a wife and two children, the eldest tree years old, and two Bibles. In order to work their bondage they have procured a girl to take care of the children. They are Whigs and their house is not clean.
Total: 12 Persons, 3 Bibles, 3 Prayer Books
Page 94 Murgo PATTEN and his wife have two sons, the eldest is thirteen. five others are out at place. they are Presbyterians, dirty, and have one Bible.
Total: 4 Persons, 1 Bible

Cartington Bankhead:
Page 95 Mr. STEPHENSON is a very respectable Farmer. His family consists of his wife and two sons, the eldest thirteen. One male servant and one female. they have two Bibles and two Prayer Books.
Thomas NICHOLL lives under him. He and his wife have four sons and two daughters, the eldest fourteen. He is a Whig and has two Bibles.
Total: 14 Persons, 4 Bibles, 2 Prayer Books
Page 96 Charles MORGAN and his wife are Whigs. they have one son, one daughter and two Bibles.
James HUDSON and his wife are aged people ( the latter sixty). They have two grown up daughters, a son and a grandson. They have one folio Bible, and a small one, and their house is sufficiently comfortable.
Total: 10 Persons, 4 Bibles
Page 97 Mr. DETCHON has held his farm thirty two years. He was married and has seven children, two servants, a Bible and eight Prayer books.
John HEDLEY was his Hind - had a son and a daughter, a Bible and wanted a Prayer book. His house was very clean.
Total: 15 Persons, 2 Bibles, 8 Prayer Books

Cartington Castle:
Page 98 This old ruin is inhabited by two masons - John and George ROBSON. The latter is married and has four daughters and a son, the eldest sixteen. they are both Roman Catholic and have one Bible and two Testaments.
(Later addition) Since the period alluded to above, John ROBSON is dead and the other brother, not liking his old ruinous mansion, has built himself a house at the foot of the bank to which he means to remove his family.
Total: 7 Persons, 1 Bible, 2 Testaments
Page 99 Mr. LENNOX has a daughter and two sons, two men servants and one female. they have two Bibles and four Prayer books.
Edward PILE and his wife are Papists. they have one son and daughters both infants. Their house is very clean and they have one Bible.
Total: 11 Persons, 3 Bibles, 4 Prayer Books

West Hills:
Page 100 Rodger HUDSON and his wife have six sons and two daughters but three of them are out at place. The eldest twenty-two. They have one Bible and one Prayer book and were taking in a folio Bible. He was ill with a stomach complaint.
Total: 7 Persons, 1 Bible, 1 Prayer Book

 

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