Hi Bette I to understand HETHERINGTON to be quite common in the Borders, as are most of my Northumberland and Durham names, even if they are not common elsewhere. If you have not already come across it, George McDonald Fraser's book The Steel Bonnets gives an insight into many of the names of the Borders, and into the bloodiest period there. Though it is a bit heavey going at times http://preview.tinyurl.com/trvtx Cheers Steve -- Researching Cairns, Dodsworth, Douglas, Hetherington, Hume, Pringle, Taylor, Wilson, Wintrip in Northumberland UK Cockburn, Dobson, Forster, Headlam, Hogg, Mackay, Maggs, Pringle, Tate in County Durham UK Hetherington, Huntington in Cumbria UK (pre 1846) Forster in North Yorkshire UK Barnard, Binks, Dowsett, Duncombe, Fairhead, Kemp, Ovel, Rudkin, Sibley, Smith, Spurgeon, Wendon in Essex UK Bunt(Bunts; Bunce) in Devon UK Caddy, Gluyas in Cornwall UK Cottle, Frances, Maggs, Plummer, Weaver in Somerset UK Corfield, Lees, Taylor in Willenhall, Staffordshire UK Bette McIntosh wrote: > Hi Steve, Thanks for taking the time to enlighten me re the > HETHERINGTONs of your focus. I am not surprised that I did not > recognize anyone whom your listed in your tree but then it is my > understanding that the HETHERINGTON name was commonplace especially in > the Cumbria/NBL area. Given this & the fact that my only known > HETHERINGTON connection occured much earlier (farther backward) in my > search for family history I would say that we do not share a common > thread, at least at this level of the research effort. > > Good luck with your search. > > Trying to leave no stone unturned, > Bette > USA > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve" <steveshistory2@yahoo.co.uk> > To: "Bette McIntosh" <bmcintosh@new.rr.com>; <DUR-NBL@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 10:03 AM > Subject: Re: [DUR-NBL] Hetherington - Was Off topic. I'm back. > > >> Hi Bette >> >> My earliest Hetherington is Joseph, born c1817 Abbeyholm, Cumbria. >> He married Julia Martha HUNTIGTON in 1838 at Cockermouth, Cumbria >> They had >> Jane 1844 Bridekirk Cumbria >> Thomas 1846 Newcastle-u-Tyne >> Euphemia 1847 Ogle - died 1853 Newcastle >> Julia 1850 West Chevington >> William 1855 Benwell >> Mary 1860 Longbenton >> >> Thomas married Sarah TAYLOR in 1874 and they lived in the West >> Chevington/Widrington area for the rest of their lives. >> They had 7 or 8 children, the 4th one being my wife's grandmother. >> >> Cheers >> Steve >> >> >> >> Bette McIntosh wrote: >>> Steve, >>> >>> If I may ask could you to please elaborate on your search for the >>> HETHERINGTON surname... the when (dates) & where (locations). I >>> have a research interest in this particular surname as it relates to >>> Whitfield, Redheugh and Allendale, NBL ca. 1700s. Specifically one >>> John HETHERINGTON and daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth married a >>> William BURDESS in Allendale, NBL 19 July 1788. >>> >>> Bette >