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William WILSON born 1818 at Sandhoe/Saint John Lee is my g-g-grandfather.

His father James/ Jacobi was baptised at Aydon Castle in Corbridge Parish 12-Feb-1786; father Joseph; mother Jane (possibly SCOTT)

James WILSON married Martha GOODMAN of Upper Clatford at Monxton Hampshire on 21 Nov 1815. ( I have a copy of the marriage register entry - written as WISON)

James WILSON died at Sandhoe 1839 ( I have a copy of the Death Certificate and photos of the MI at St John Lee graveyard.)

Later Martha Goodman WILSON married James SCOTT. I need to check dates etc.

William WILSON married Dorothy GALLEY in Hartlepool in 1845. They had five children and Dorothy died in Newcastle in 1853, the same day the youngest was born.  Later William married Mary ? from Lancashire and it is their daughter, Maud Mary, who is staying with her aunt, Martha THOMPSON, in Birmingham in the 1881 Census. Her brother, William is with his father also in Birmingham.

I have no information except what is in the later census for Martha THOMPSON and would be very happy to find out more.

William's son, James WILSON, my great-grandfather, married Mary ORD in Durham in 1871. They had six children, emigrated to Queensland where they had seven more.  Some family correspondence and photos have survived but nothing from or about the THOMPSONS.

I have had contact with a descendant of Robert WILSON and Christianna (RHODES).

Their daughter Lucy was mentioned in a 1918 letter to my g-grandparents from James' sister, Janey, a Sister of Mercy in Newcastle.  It was through this information that I was able to connect the families to Rose Cottage in Sandhoe. ( Yes, it, but not the WILSONs, is still there and I do have some photos.)

I suspect that James WILSON, who was a gardener, was employed by the Erringtons of Beaufront (Sandhoe) who also owned Rice House at Upper Clatford.  Martha was a washerwoman, perhaps she worked at Rice House?

Best wishes,

Mary