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Thanks again Barbara & Sharmar     My Mary A Pigg never married and was still a shopkeeper and grocer on 1901 census at the age of 74.   Regards  Kippen

Thanks Barbara    I think that you are probably right that the two Dorothys are one and the same. Dorothy Pigg was born in the March qtr at Bellingham. I cannot trace a birth for Dorothy Wilkinson.I also cannot find Dorothy Pigg in either 1851 or 1861 census or Mary Ann Pigg in 1851. I cannot find any marriages to a Wilkinson for either Dorothy or Mary Ann. Mary Ann was a grocer in Bellingham and so was John Wilkinson,so possibly Dorothy was their daughter and lived with her grandparents and took their name while living with them.

Regards  Kippen

Thanks Mo ,I did think that it maybe hairdresser but the end of the word just didnt look like hairdresser. You probably have got the right Vost as the children were born in Cumberland.

regards KIppen

Thanks again.Sorry by both I meant Berwick & Bolbeck Hall .I looked up all that they had,I do not think that I saw any for Coldstream. I agree that oral histories are often inaccurate as I have found in the past,but non of the family have been RC since Alexander though maybe his children were baptised RC as non of his children appear in the records of North Sunderland.The children of his son William were all baptised in that church.Sarah's maiden name Johnston appears on the birth certificates of her children.Alexander's father was William and his grand-father was Alexander.Alexander had several brothers living near Berwick and most of them had sons called William and Alexander.The grave stone at N S names all the children that predeceased them and William of 1843 is not named. You are correct in your information regarding the children.

Kippen