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I'm trying to locate Shore House and Shore Tower in Tweedmouth. I think they may be the same place, but I'm not sure. I have a reference for Shore House in the 1871 census and a reference for Shore Tower in the 1891 census. The Lee family were named in both.

I've found Tower House Pottery on Tower Road, Tweedmouth via Google Earth photos and am wondering if this is the Shore House/Tower that I'm looking for. Is there anyone out there who knows the answer?

Thanks

Carol

Hi, I hope someone can help me this evening. I'm trying to find out if my great grandfather, William Brooks was living with his father, Eli Brooks in Sheffield during the 1901 census and if so, who else was living with them. William would have been 19 years old and unmarried. He was either an engineer or an electric crane driver in an egineering company. I don't know anything about Eli Brooks.
Thank you. CBD.

Hello Eric,

Thank you for this information. I've not had any luck finding George and Margaret's marriage certificate either. Via rootschat I found out about irregular marriages where people went over the border to Scotland to get marriage in the Eastern version of Gretna Green. The lady who I was in contact with had records up to 1855, I think they might have got married in the couple of years followng this. I've no idea how to do anything further with that though. I was up in Berwick in February - I didn't go to the record office, but I did go to the graveyard in Tweedmouth and found the gravestones of George Lee and his brother Robert (I have the transcripts which I can let you have if you'd like). By the church is a small road called 'Lees Lane' which was named after our family.

I have some more information about your grandmother's elder brother George (my Gt Grandfather). His full name was George Lee Wild, dob. 28th June 1881. He died on the 20th June 1960. He married Caroline Meadows.

I'm not convinced that his father was George Lee as I have found two George Lee's living in Tweedmouth at the same time, both as boat maker's apprentices, one George Lee's son, the other Robert Lee's son. I can't prove which one is ours.

Regards,

Carol

Hi Kath,

Yes, I agree, it probably is the same couple. I haven't come across this before.

Thanks again.

Carol

I've just read one of the 'look up offers' for Northumberland about irregular marriages and I'm wondering if a marriage I'm searching for but can't find might be an irregular marriage.

The marriage I'm after took place in the 1850s, probably before 1857 when the first child was born. The marriage was between GEORGE LEE (b. Tweedmouth 1836) and MARGARET CULLEN (b. Berwick 1839). Margaret's father was called Thomas Cullen. I'm unsure of George's father's name (either George or Robert). George appears to have spent all his life in Tweedmouth with the exception of 1858 when he was in Eyemouth, Scotland.

Hope you can help.

Kind regards,

Carol