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I have studied the Drummond family tree again and I can provide further information from it:

The William Gott who married Mary Bee on 28th June 1803, mentioned in an earlier posting, was the son of Esther Drummond and William Gott.   William and Esther are shown as having 2 children - Elizabeth born ? and William born 1780.

The marriage of William Gott and Mary Bee resulted in 8 children - Isabel b ?, William b 15 Oct 1809, Elizabeth b 18 Oct 1811, John b 1814, James b 1815, Mary b 1819, Esther b 17 Dec 1821 and Dorothy b 28 Oct 1823.

Esther Drummond's second marriage to John Dobbs produced one child - also called John.

There is no indication on the tree as to who William Gotts parents were.

Whereas Arthur Appleton's book only seems to mention James Drummond and Elizabeth Armstrong as having 3 children, the tree shows 7 children.

My gr gr grandmother was Alice Drummond who was b 1808 at Lamesley, however I have been any connection back to James Drummond of Biddick.

Wearsider

My thanks for both replies which have been most helpful.

I searched on FreeBMD as suggested as suggested in the first reply and found both references that have been suggested to me in the second reply.

The death certificates should provide me with further information, particularly for Mary Jane as her death occurred in the same quarter as the birth of their daughter Elizabeth.

I have checked all my earlier information together with the reply information that I have received in these postings and I am now satisfied that the marriage of William Messenger and Mary Machin at Arksey is the correct one for my tree.

I am most grateful for all the postings that I have received on this thread.

Wearsider.

Thanks for all the postings to my query.

The information that I have for my 3x gr grandfather is :
"From the BTs for Chester le Street.
Benjamin Messenger born 23 May 1805 Lumley Park, Co Durham.  2nd son of William Messenger of Lumley Park, Whipperin, native of Swalcliffe, Oxfordshire, by his wife Mary Magin, native of Hawkshaw, Yorkshire"

From Family Search :
"William Messenger = Mary married 18th December 1803 at Kilham, York."

In the BTs for Chester le Street for their daughter and son the name is spelt as 'Maychin' and 'Magin' and rightly or wrongly I have interpreted this as 'Machin'.

The mention of Benjamin being the 2nd son now leads me to the idea that the William Messenger b 12 May 1798 and identified by Suzard is probably the correct one 

I have to admit that the thought that I may have skipped a generation had not occurred to me and I obviously need to do some more work on that one. 

Wearsider.