Re. S22
We are interested in this name in Northumberland in that a Mary Anderson married John Rule at Ford 28.6.1759, the witnesses being Richard Smith and John Tait. The Rule Family story is at Ref. S2.
As the Rule story relates, Mary (Anderson) was buried at Ford 8.7.1787, aged only 56, so we sought a baptism 1730-31 and duly found one at Ford, i.e. 9.8.1730 Mary, daughter of Wm Anderson of Ford. There were also entries:
21.11.1732 Xstian, daughter of Wm Anderson of Ford
16.11.1735 Jean, daughter of Wm Anderson of Ford (buried 9.12.1735).
This duly led back to a marriage at Ford, between Jean Morton and William Anderson 22.3.1730, by licence, i.e. between four and five months before Mary’s birth.
Parents’ origins
There is a burial entry for a Jane Anderson at Ford 21.5.1775, age not given. In the absence of any Jeans* in those records, we, with other long-standing and experienced researchers of the family, take it that this relates to our Jean These researchers tipped us off that looking for a suitable Jean Morton birth is pointless because William Anderson was her second husband and her birth name was Youngson (See Ref 221). Indeed, we found a marriage at Ford between Jean Youngson and George Morton “of Barryhill”. (The map suggests Berryhill, a mile or two north of Ford, through Etal.)# The indexes make it quite clear that there was only one Youngson family around in that part of Northumberland at that time, i.e. that of William Youngson, the schoolmaster of Ford. N.B. the above-mentioned daughter Christian was named for her maternal grandmother.
*As it turns out to be Scottish, it would be unheard of in Northumberland in that era.
William Anderson was buried at Ford 15.6.1772, age not disclosed. It was quite a common name in Northumberland and we have not enough information to guess his origins. There seemed to be no baptisms of that name at Ford.
#The marriage at Ford between Jean Youngson and George Morton was 11.5.1725 and there was an entry for a baptism, on 20 April 1727, of George Morton, son of George Morton of Barryhill, deceased. This suggests that Jean was widowed within a couple of years of marrying and had a child that never saw his father. As yet we have not seen a burial for George Morton.
September 2017
Young Family History 