Ref. S5
All surnames in the Tait story
See here for an alphabetical list of all surnames in the Tait pages with links to the relevant text.
Mary Ellen Tait married George Anthony Smart (See Ref. S1) of Wooler, Sheena’s grandfather, 16.11.1896 at Gosforth Parish Church. She was then aged 26.
In family history it is sometimes intriguing to wonder how a couple met. In this case family folklore has answer. Mary Ellen was a nursemaid. The 1891 Census shows her as resident with Rev. Abraham Gooderham, the Vicar of St Anne’s, Jesmond, and his wife Blanche, along with her charges Mary Briggs aged 3 and Ernest Briggs aged 2, niece and nephew respectively. Later in 1891 Rev. Gooderham succeeded Rev. Joseph Hudson as Vicar of Chillingham. The latter was shown at the 1891 Census as a widower, aged 98, no less, with grandson John Hudson as a thirty year old curate and two servants. John Hudson, according to Crockford, became Curate there in 1881 and did not move on until 1892, while his grandfather had been at Chillingham since 1866. Actually it was said in the family that the Gooderhams were in the habit of spending time in the summer at Chillingham, i.e. while still at Jesmond, with Mary Ellen going there with them. However, it may simply be that she first encountered Chillingham when her employer moved there in 1891. However that may, the story goes that she acted on a suggestion by her father that on her day off she should walk over from Chillingham to visit the Smart family at Humbleton Mill – Robert, Ruth and family – because they were cousins. She must have encountered their cousin George Anthony Smart this way. We show below how Mary Ellen and George Anthony were actually second cousins.
Mary Ellen was said also to have been employed by Dr and Mrs Brummel at Morpeth. The Brummels were a family of considerable influence in that town. The 1891 Census has, at 2 Castle Square, Arthur Brummel, physician & surgeon, aged 37, with his 25 year old wife Elizabeth and daughter Dorothy, aged 1. His father Matthew, surgeon and general practitioner, aged 68, was at 25 Oldgate Street in 1881, with bachelor Arthur in lodgings in Newgate Street. The father evidently died during the decade. Arthur’s cousins and uncles included solicitors, the Deputy Superintendent Registrar and the Town Clerk.
Tait – Bolam Family
Mary Ellen Tait was born 28.6.1870 in Gateshead as the third child of Thomas Tait, at various times a husbandman and coachman, and his wife Margaret Ann Bolam (see Ref. S6) and was brought up in Gosforth. The parents’ marriage was 24.7.1859 at Chester-le-Street, Thomas being resident at nearby Lumley Park*, occupation husbandman and the son of John Tait, a farmer. At numerous Censuses he said he was born 1826-27 in Wooler. We think that by 1851 his elder brother William had moved to Pelawhill, Harraton, County Durham, and Thomas had followed him south. The marriage certificate has the groom aged 31 and the bride 21, whereas we believe he was year older and she a year younger.
*The Lambton family were landowners both in the Wooler area and at Lumley Park. As Gerry Langley comments in his article “Estate Records as a Source of Family History”, “Estates often imported senior staff, such as managers, gamekeepers and the like from other parts of the country because they were thought to show impartiality when dealing with the employees. Frequently they transferred on “promotion” between areas owned by the same landowner”. He also discloses that at the height of the 19th Century coal trade the Lumley estate employed over a thousand men in mining alone. [We might see if there any Lambton papers that give evidence of William Tait, John Tait, Robert Tait and Thomas Tait being recruited for service in Co Durham. There are none such at the Berwick RO.]
The first child of Thomas and Margaret Ann, i.e. John (Jack) was born at Elwicks Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne in August 1860, when Thomas said he was a railway coachman. However, an 1861 Census entry for the family has not been found. There then seems to have been a gap – or there were children born who died in infancy – because the next child we know about was Margaret born in February 1868 at 17 Edith Street, Gateshead, Thomas being now a gentleman’s coachman. The family moved on again for the birth of Mary Ellen Tait in June 1870 at Gordon Street, Gateshead and again by the time of the 1871 Census, when they were at the Grove, South Gosforth, near Roseworth House. The fourth child, Thomas, was born at Roseworth in May 1873, with the last one, William, arriving at an address in Elmfield Road, South Gosforth in October 1875, the father still being a gentleman’s coachman. Apparently this was to Mr Hedley the proprietor of the soap business that became Proctor & Gamble.
At the 1881 Census the family are once again not to be found but in 1891 they are at Causey Street, Coxlodge, Gosforth. In 1901 Thomas, Margaret, with sons Thomas and William were at 135 Salters Road, Coxlodge. Thomas senior died there of cancer 9.9.1906, aged 80, the informant being Thomas junior, who himself died 3.5.1910, by which time his brother William had left home to get married. The 1911 Census shows the widow Margaret sharing 135 Salters Road with daughter Margaret Tailford, the son-in-law and four young children. At some point after this she moved to the home of her daughter Mary Ellen (Smart) in High Street, Wooler, where she spent the last years of her life, dying there 26.5.1918 aged 78. Further details of the family of Thomas and Margaret Ann Tait and their descendants are at Appendix 1.
Tait – Smart Family
In consistency with what is stated in the first paragraph of the previous section, Thomas Tait was baptised 19.11.1826 at Wooler, the sixth child of John Tait, a cattle dealer, and his wife Margaret Smart. We do not know when or where they were married, although it might be expected to have been 1813-17. As a 14 year old, Thomas Tait seems to have gone unrecorded at the 1841 Census, the rest of the family being at Ramsays Lane, Wooler. In 1851 the family were still there, with Margaret saying that she was born around 1795 at Crag Mill, which was a smock windmill near Belford. Although he had gone unrecorded at the 1841 Census, Thomas was at home ten years later as an unmarried labourer and was apparently the informant of his mother’s death 18.4.1857. She was 62 and died of stomach cancer. In 1861 John Tait was recorded as being still at Ramsay’s Lane, a carter and he died there 29.1.1868 of old age. Although there seems no doubt of Thomas’s parentage, the reference to John Tait being a carter is useful in that Thomas Tait’s granddaughter, Constance Bell, had a recollection of being told that her great-grandfather (John) was a carrier and had led all the stone for the building of the Wooler workhouse.
So who was Margaret Smart? As it happens, we possess an ancient list of children’s names and birth dates relating to the nine children of Robert Smart and his wife Margaret Landles. (See Appendix 4 to Ref. S1). The eldest was Margaret Landles Smart, said to have been born 19.2.1795. Given that Robert was a miller and in the absence of any other competing record, we have no hesitation in saying that it was Margaret Landles Smart who married John Tate.
The family details of the John Tait – Margaret Landles Smart are at Appendix 2.
Cousins
We started with Mary Ellen Tait and we have now reached her great-grandfather, Robert Smart who ended up as the miller at Humbleton Mill, near Wooler. In Ref.S1 we recount that George Anthony Smart was also a great-grandchild of Robert. So the marriage in 1896 was of second cousins and the summer excursion from Chillingham entirely likely.
Further back
On John Tait’s death 29.1.1868, his age was given as 78, i.e. a birth 1789-90, whereas the 1851 and 1861 Censuses would have implied 1794-95 or 1792-93 respectively. He said he was born in Wooler. This indicated a search of Wooler baptisms 1792 to 1790. There are only two John Tait baptisms that are indexed, i.e. 29.6.1794, son of William and 8.5.1798, son of William and Gresel. There are no parish burials of John Tait listed, so each of these boys could have survived to marriageable age. Given that our John became a father in 1817, we are inclined to reject the 1798 baptism. Favouring the 1794 one would make John about the same age as his wife Margaret, which not unreasonable. That still leaves the question who was John’s mother. In the last 20 years of the 18th Century no less than nine Tait/Tate families figured in Wooler baptisms. We can exclude William Tait and Margaret, because they were baptising their boy Andrew just three months before our John. Then there is William Tait and Bettey, whose son George was baptised in March 1800, but that would imply a six year gap. That throws us back to a marriage 16.11.1773 at Wooler of William Tate and Eleanor Leck. With such an unusual name, we can be sure that Eleanor was the girl baptised 15.9.1747 at Wooler, the daughter of Ralph Leck. The trouble is that a quick comparison with the date our John’s baptism, i.e. 29.6.1794 suggests that the mother was unusually old by then, so is it credible? Well, at least one other researcher believes so and in their published family tree they have John as born 23.2.1794, implying a conception in the summer of 1793. Every little helps!
A little cautiously we are prepared to follow their lead and adopt the family as detailed in Appendix 4. Equally cautiously, we feel inclined to think that the above Ralph Leck married Margaret Monilawes at Chillingham 21.7.1744 as his second wife and had nine children baptised in Wooler, albeit perhaps resident in Chillingham or Chatton at various times. The Monilawes name is common enough in the Borders of Scotland, rather than in Northumberland. Ralph Leck’s first marriage was at Wooler 30.8.1732 to Alice Macdonel, with possibly three children resulting.
As perhaps a side issue, the informant on the death of John Tait (in 1868), present at the death, was one James Halliday, not a name that we associate with the Tait family but who turns out to have been a woolen weaver. He had a son also called James who was born in 1854. Rather tenuously, in a 1897 directory that covered Wooler, the Assistant Overseer is a James Halliday and if this gentleman had followed his father and namesake in the same office it might be that when John’s terminal illness set in there was no one from the family to nurse him and the workhouse people took responsibility. Perhaps, by then, he was resident in the Workhouse – he had, after all, been engaged in its construction! Note the Workhouse connection mentioned by Constance Bell above. Another scenario is that John looked after himself until a very late stage and the Hallidays were just neighbours who were involved at the terminal stage.
December 2018
Appendix 1 to Ref. S5
Thomas Tait and Margaret Ann Bolam Family
Thomas Tait married Margaret Ann Bolam 24.7.1859 at Chester-le-Street. Thy had children as follows:
John (Jack) Tait (1860- ??)
See Appendix 3.
Mary Tait (1862- ??) Born 1862 Q4 Newcastle.
Margaret Tait (1864 – ??) Born 1864 Q3 Gateshead. Thought to have died in same quarter.
Margaret Tait (1868- ?? )
Born February 1868 Gateshead. Witnessed Mary Ellen’s wedding November 1896. Married William Tailford and they had four children, three sons and a daughter. At the 1911 Census this family had moved into the family home at 135 Slaters Road, Gosforth, where Margaret’s mother Margaret had been left widowed. Two of the sons went to Australia Margaret Tailford is believed to have been living at Halton near wherever c.1951.
Mary Ellen Tait (1870-1959) See main text.
Thomas Tait (1873-1910)
Born May 1873 at Roseworth, South Gosforth. He remained unmarried and eventually became head gardener at Coxlodge Hall, Gosforth, living with his parents at 135 Salters Road Gosforth. He was the informant when his father died there 9.11.1906 and it was there also that Thomas himself died 3.5.1910, of TB at the early age of 37, said to be a council roadman.
William Tait (1875-1966)
Born October 1875 at Elmfield Road, South Gosforth. Butcher journeyman. Married Margaret Blenkinsop 1903 Q3 and set up at 68 High Street, Gosforth. William was the informant when Thomas, his brother, died in 1910. William and Margaret had three children. She died July 1966, aged 90, and he died in the October of the same year at his daughter’s, Constance’s, home in Leeds on his 91st birthday. He was reputed never to have been known to be ill.
Constance Tait
Born 18.12.1906. Married George Bell
Marjorie Tait
Born ?? died 1983. Married Harry Liversedge. They had a wool shop in Whitley Bay and had two sons, for whom we have some details.
Arnold Tait ( ?? -1962)
Married Elsey Ward. They had two children, a boy and a girl, for whom we have details.
Thomas Tait died of cancer 9.11.1906 in Gosforth, aged 80 (almost). At some point after the 1911 Census, the widow Margaret Ann moved to the home of her daughter Mary Ellen (Smart) in High Street, Wooler, where she spent the last years of her life, dying (of “senile debility”) 26.5.1918 aged 78.
Appendix 2 to Ref. S5
John and Margaret Landles Tate/Tait Family
William Tate (1817- ?? )
Born 26.2.1817, baptised 5.4.1817. Married (? c.1838 –we have looked at GRO for the ten quarters up to Dec 1839.) Ann Wilson who was born (1815/16) at Paxton, a hamlet just over the Scottish border about three miles west of Berwick. [So the marriage could have been in Scotland.] At the 1841 Census at Sheephead, Plantation House, West Lilburn the eldest (5 year old) child was described as James Wilson, with only the younger children called Tait and in due course there followed John, Elizabeth, William, Susannah, George and Margaret. The surname spelling varied from Census to Census. We got hold of the birth certificate of Elizabeth and saw that her mother was described as Ann Tate, late Tait, former Wilson, so it was her second marriage or, possibly, she already had an illegitimate child when she married William Tate. In 1851 they had moved to Pelawhill, Harraton, Durham and by 1871 they were at Houghton Gate, Lambton, being still there in 1881. The children were:
James (Wilson) born 1835/6 Westwood or Weetwood, Ag Lab in 1851
John Tait born 1838/9 born Wooler, Ag Lab in 1851.
Elizabeth Tait born May 1841 at Low Haughhead, West Lilburn. “Tate” on the B.C. Still at home, at Harraton, in 1861
William Tait born Chillingham (or North Charlton?), Ag Lab in 1861 and 1871. Roadman living at home aged 35 in 1881.
Susannah Tait born Westwood/Weetwood 1846/7. Still at home unmarried in 1871, aged 23, an Ag Lab in the Fields, but not at home in 1881.
George Tait born Pelawhill 1851/2. Unmarried at home Ag Lab in 1871 and horsekeeper in 1881 (when he was 29).
Margaret Tait born Pelawhill 1853/4. Unmarried general servant at home in 1881.
Margaret Tate bap. Wooler June 1820.
Very likely working at Humbleton Mills at the time of the 1841 Census, where it showed a farm servant named Margaret Tait, aged 20/24. This was in the household of (“our”) George Smart, i.e. “our” Margaret’s uncle. However – there was a precisely similar entry at Humbleton Low Burn House, in the household of Richard Wrightman, farmer, so one can never be sure!.
John Tait bap. Wooler December 1821
1851 labourer at home in Wooler. Married Ann Fish of Lowick (who was born 1830/31) we are not sure when. [We looked in vain for a suitable GRO entry 1851-53] By 1861, when John was a groom, they had had the first three of their six children and were living next to Lumley Castle at Little Lumley, County Durham, the birthplace of all the children. At the 1871 Census they were at the same place with one further child. John must have died before the next Census in 1881 because that. shows Ann as a widow, aged 50, working as a housekeeper, still at the house next door to Lumley Castle, with unmarried working sons, Joseph, Robert* and George, as well as 7 year old Thomas William. From the youngest child’s age, John could not have died before 1873 [so we could have a look at the GRO 1873/81.]
John Tait and Ann Fish had six children:
Margaret Tait.
Born 1852/53. Ancestor of Anne McDonald of Queensland through her mother. She says Margaret was born at Birtley but the 1861 Census says Little Lumley.
John Tait born 1855/56
Joseph Tait born 1858/59
Robert Smart Tait born 18.8.1860 at Park House, Little Lumley.
His birth certificate gives the father’s occupation is Ag. Lab. The lad may have been named in honour of his paternal grandmother, Margaret Landles Smart, who had died about four years before he was born.
George Tait born 1865/66
Thomas William Tait born 1873/74
Robert Tate bap. Kirknewton 11.7.1824
In 1841 with the family at Ramsay’s Lane, Wooler. His first marriage was at Chester le Street 1852 Q2 to Margaret Forsyth, daughter of Thomas Forsyth and Jane, born Washington, County Durham in late 1832 (two alternative baptism entries indexed). We have not seen Robert, Margaret and company in 1851 or 1861. In 1864 Q3 Margaret died at Gateshead and in 1867 Q3 at Newcastle Robert married Dorothy Harrison the 22 year old daughter of Joseph Harrison, shoemaker of Morpeth and his wife Dorothy nee Peacock. In 1871, Robert and Dorothy were at Meadowfield Lodge, Heaton, Newcastle, (where Robert was coachman to Cuthbert Hunter next door at Meadowfield Hall). They had with them their first child as well as three children of Robert, namely:
John Tait, born 1853 Q3 Chester le Street. He became a ship’s joiner
Ellen Tait, born 1860 Q4 at Walker, Tynemouth and
Frances Tait, born 1860/61 at Walker.
Not present was Margaret Tait born 1858 Q4 Tynemouth District (she said in Walker). Sheena’s Australian cousin has her great-grandmother Margaret Tait marrying Joseph Wilson 10.6.1878 at Gateshead, where the bride’s father, Robert Tait, was living at 12 Berwick Road, occupation coachman. Joseph Wilson was a bricklayer, having been born in Newcastle 1855 Q4 as the son of Thomas Wilson, bricklayer and his wife Anne Elliott, who had married at Newcastle 26.4.1852 Margaret and Joseph emigrated to Australia in the mid-1880s.
In 1881 we find Robert Tait and Dorothy at Whickham Road, Whickham, County Durham, he being a domestic coachman, with the first three of their own children. Also there was Robert’s 27 year old daughter-in-law Jane, who did not divulge her marital state, but whom we take to be the wife of John mentioned above. Robert and Dorothy’s children were:
Dorothy Tait born 1868 Q1 Heaton, Newcastle
Robert Lindsay Tait born 1871 Q4 Heaton, Newcastle. Died 1875 Q3 age 3
Joseph Harrison Tait born 1873 Q2 Heaton, Newcastle
Mary Dorothy Tait born 1876 Q3 Heaton, Newcastle
Elizabeth Tait born 1883 Q4 Wickham, Durham.
Robert Tait died 1886 Q2 in Gateshead District (presumably at Whickham) aged 60, leaving Dorothy, aged 41, with four children who would have been dependent, possibly all five. Not surprising then, that she got married again. This was in 1887 Q4 to William Sykes, a Yorkshire steel furnaceman from Sheffield who was 20 years younger than herself. In 1891 they were still in Whickham with Dorothy’s three youngest children, Joseph being a stationery clerk. Ten years later they were at Graham Street, New Monkland , Lanarkshire, Scotland where William was a steel foundry manager. Mary Dorothy was just at home while Elizabeth was a typist. In 1911 at 22 Botanical Road, Sheffield, in the Eccleshall Bierlow district, (in which area we think William Sykes was born) we find Dorothy putting herself down as the second person on the household list and “married”, as if William was just elsewhere and might be home for Census night. Mary Dorothy has apparently married a man called Rigg and she had with her her son “A. H Rigg” born in Rhodesia. Elizabeth was still typing.
Thomas Tait bap. Wooler November 1826
See main text and Appendix 1.
George Tait bap. Wooler November 1828. Still there as an unmarried 22 year old labourer in 1851.
Ellen Tait bap. Wooler January 1831. Not seen after 1841.
Elizabeth Tait bap. Wooler February 1833
1851 visitor at Ramsays Lane in house of Barbara Atkinson, next door to Thomas Smart.
Joseph Tait b. Wooler 1836/7
At home until 1861, when he was a carter, living with father John at Ramsays Lane. Married 25.7.1864, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Elizabeth Stothert, daughter of James Stothert, cattle dealer of Wooler, when he was still a “cartman”. Was keeping the Wheatsheaf Inn in 1871 and 1881. We have seen two children:
Elizabeth A Tait, born 1865/66 at Wooler
Margaret Tait, born 20.1.1869 at Wooler
The mother Margaret died at Wooler 18.4.1857, aged 62 and John died there 29.1.1868, aged 73.
Appendix 3 to Ref. S5
John (Jack) Tait’s Family
Encouraged by Sheena’s cousins of this branch of the family, we assembled rather more information than we might have otherwise done, so a separate appendix is necessary .
John (“Jack”) Tait was born 12.8.1860 at Elwick’s Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of Thomas Tait and Margaret Ann Bolam (See Appendix 1). He was lodging with his great uncle Ralph Bolam at South Buddick, Co Durham, at the time of the 1881 Census when he was a 20 year old domestic gardener. Ten years later he was an under-gardener (domestic) at the Bothy, Spital Hill, Morpeth.
He married at the Baptist Chapel, Durham Road, Gateshead, 21.11.1896 Harriet (“Ruth”) Rutherford, when he was a journeyman joiner, residing at Causey Street, Gosforth. John said he was 32, rather than the actual 36. His father’s was duly described as Thomas Tait, coachman. Harriet, at 23, was much younger than Jack, and stated to be the daughter of James Williamson Rutherford, a fitter and turner, and resident at 49 Abbey Street, Gateshead.
Jack and Ruth Tait had two children:
Sydney Rutherford Tait (1898-?1954)
Born 2 May 1898 at 75 Elsdon Road, Gosforth, registered as Sydney Tait. Dukes School and Armstrong College (latter evening/part-time?). Joined GPO 1912. MC & Croix de Guerre as 2nd Lt. Corps of Royal Engineers Signals 1914-18. To Rhodesia 1921. 1939-1946 with Rhodesian forces (Signals) in Middle East and East Africa, rank of Lt-Colonel, appointed MBE. Southern Rhodesia Postmaster-General August 1952. PMG-designate of new Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953. Hon Colonel, Southern Rhodesia Signal Corps. Two daughters, one called Anne. Died of heart attack, Salisbury, and buried with full military honours. See newspaper cuttings.
Evelyn May Maud Tait [? 1901- ??]
Born 29.10.1900, married 3.9.1924, at St George’s, Gateshead, Jacob Leach (Jack) Brundrett, son of William Brundrett (a painter), when she was 23 and he was 34, one of the witnesses being Sheena’s mother, Kathleen Smart. Jack, at that time an assistant manager, ended up as a director of an insurance company. Evelyn died 19.5.1993. They had daughter, with whom we are in touch.
At the 1901 Census John, Harriet and the two children were at 44 Westbourne Avenue, Gateshead, with John a joiner with the railway company, with a similar entry ten years later, this time at 22 Camborne Grove Gateshead.
We have not established when Jack Tait died but we know that Harriet “Ruth” Tait nee Rutherford died 1956Q4 aged 83, in Bucklow, Cheshire district. (Sheena’s cousin, MT, said that she died in a British Red Cross Home near Altrincham and was cremated at Southern Cemetery, Barlow Moor Road, Manchester – the Chorlton/Withington area).
Harriet “Ruth” Rutherford’s origins
Harriet Rutherford was born 2.2.1873 at 8 Burn Street*, Gateshead, stated to be the daughter of James Rutherford, glass mould turner, and his wife Hannah, nee Lambert. (The mother made her mark.) This accorded with cousin MT’s information about her grandmother’s origins and birthday. However, MT never heard tell of her grandmother having siblings, despite Census entries showing her to have had eleven brothers and sisters.
We found the Rutherfords in the 1881 Census:
| 1881. At 37 Claremont Street, Gateshead | RG 11 5033/32 | ||||
| James W. RUTHERFORD | Head | M | 45 | Mould Turner | born S. Shields, Durham |
| Hannah | Wife | M | 40 | – | b. Gateshead |
| Thomas J | son | M | 23 | Puddler | b. -do- |
| George | son | U | 22 | Tailor | b. -do- |
| Elizabeth | dau | U | 19 | Dressmaker | b. -do- |
| Dorothy | dau | U | 17 | Domestic (home) | b. -do- |
| James | son | 14 | Domestic (home) | b. -do- | |
| Harriet | dau | 8 | Scholar | b. -do- | |
| Henry | son | 6 | Scholar | b. -do- | |
| John | son | 4 | – | b. -do- | |
| Maud Mary | dau | 1 | – | b. -do- | |
| Mary | g’dau | 3 mo | – | b. -do- | |
At the 1861 Census the family were at Nelson Street, Gateshead and in 1871 at 1 Hampton Court, Ellison Street, Gateshead when there was a further child William aged 1 listed.
At the 1891 Census they were at Bright Terrace, Gateshead, the youngest children being stated as Maud, 11, Mary 10 and Hannah 8. James Rutherford died 1900Q4 at Gateshead and in 1901 widow Hannah was recorded as the caretaker of a chapel, living at Durham Road Gateshead, with Maud, 21 and Mary 20. Ten years later Hannah and Maud were at Back Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead, but also having with them son George, 51, married, a ladies tailor. The 1911 document confirmed that Hannah had had 12 children of whom 8 were then still alive.
*As recounted below, Harriet Rutherford’s mother, Hannah, was a Lambert. We have not seen any evidence of the Rutherfords living at Burn Street, Gateshead but there were two Lambert households in Burns Street, at one of which resided a lady who could well have been Hannah Lambert’s mother, so for some reason (“accident”?) Harriet may have been born at her uncle’s house where her grandmother lived.
| 1871. At 57 Burns Street, Gateshead | RG 10/5058/26 | ||||
| Storey LAMBERT | Head | M | 26 | Puddler | b. Gateshead, Durham |
| Catherine | Wife | M | 21 | – | b. Walker, Northd |
| 1871. At 37 Burns Street, Gateshead | RG 10/5058/27 | |||||
| George LAMBERT | Head | M | 34 | Puddler | b. Gateshead, Durham | |
| Jane | Wife | M | 24 | – | b. Walker, Northd | |
| Elizabeth | Mother | M | 68 | b. Newcastle | ||
Further back with the Rutherfords
We were also able to get Harriet Rutherford’s parents’ marriage certificate, which showed that this took place at Gateshead Registry Office 23.11.1856. James Williamson Rutherford was 21, a glass mould maker (as he remained), of Grosvenor Street, Gateshead, the son of George Rutherford, a blacksmith. His bride, Hannah Lambert was only 17, living at Nelson Street, Gateshead, the daughter of Thomas Lambert deceased, a Furnaceman. The witnesses were Charles Harris and Dorothy Hedley. Both the latter and the bride made their marks, rather than signing.
We found the 1861 Census first:
| 1861. At 17 Grosvenor Street, Gateshead (Flats) | RG 9/3799/41 | ||||
| George RUTHERFORD | Head | M | 48 | Blacksmith | born S. Shields, Durham |
| Mary A. | Wife | M | 48 | – | b. -do- |
| Elizabeth | dau | U | 14 | – | b. -do- |
| Mary | dau | 11 | Scholar | b. -do- | |
| Ealeanor ?? | dau | 5 | -do- | b. Gateshead | |
N.B. James W. Rutherford married from a Grosvenor Street address in November 1856. In 1851 they had been at Chapel House, Victoria Street, Gateshead with James, 15 and Andrew, 12. We know that Elizabeth Rutherford was born 30.5.1846 at 5 Waterloo Vale, South Shields, the daughter of George Rutherford, a blacksmith, and his wife Mary, nee Williamson.
There were two other Rutherford entries at South Shields that looked to be connected:
| 1861. At 26 Grosvenor Street, Gateshead (Flats) | RG 9/3799/48v | ||||
| Andrew RUTHERFORD | Head | M | 22 | Blacksmith | born S. Shields, Durham |
| Alice | Wife | M | 17 | – | b. Newcastle |
| 1861. At 24 Nelson Street, Gateshead (Flats) | RG 9/3801/37v | ||||
| Thomas RUTHERFORD | Head | M | 27 | Waggonwright | born Gateshead, Durham |
| Mary | Wife | M | 27 | – | b. Tanfield, Durham |
The above address, Nelson Street, is rather interesting because Hannah Lambert gave that as her residence when, as a 17 year old, she married James Williamson Rutherford in 1856. At neither the 1851 nor the 1861 Censuses were there any Lamberts in Nelson Street. It looks likely that Thomas and James W. Rutherford were brothers so the latter’s bride may have lodged with his brother prior to the marriage.
October 2017
Appendix 4 to Ref. S5
William & Eleanor Tate Family
William Tate and Eleanor Leck married 16.11.1773 at Wooler.
They appear to have had children as follows:
William born 7.3.1774, baptised 14.3.1774 at Wooler.
Margaret born 28.12.1775, baptised 31.12.1775 at Wooler
Ralph born 28.4.1778, baptised 3.5.1778 at Wooler.
Adam born 1.5.1780, baptised 3. or 7.5.1780 at Wooler. Residence Chatton?
Eleanor baprised 28.12.1782 at Wooler. Residence Chatton?
then quite a gap – perhaps elsewhere from Wooler area?
Jane baptised 25.8.1791 at Wooler
John born 23.2.1794, baptised 29.6.1794 at Wooler. See main text.
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