On 26 Jul 2010 at 15:17, KELVIN Mc Cormack wrote: > Now back to Durham and Northumberland....... perhaps we could find > Ray's lot for him and establish who are and aren't his around the > Rothbury area. > Actually, I know exactly who they were. As I have previously posted, they were DAVID POTTS and his wife RACHEL CRAMER, who married at Alnwick in 1816. They were my 3x-great-grandparents. David was a baker in Rothbury High Street for many years and died in 1875. He was baptised in 1794 as POTTS or BURN, since his parents JOHN POTTS and ISABEL BURN, didn't marry until 1795 at Morpeth. I have got Potts back to a George POTTS, my sixth-great-grandfather, born at Flotterton about 1690, and I have got Rachel Cramer's ancestors back to Holy Island in the 1690s. None of them, as far as I have yet discovered, came from Newcastle, which is why I asked whether they could rightly be called Geordies or not. The consensus seemed to be not. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE