In a message dated 21/11/2009 13:24:28 GMT Standard Time, genlistlass@hotmail.com writes: I've been googling for Hathery Burn with no sucess in Whitley chapel parish. There seemed to be at least two different families living there in the 1770's. Does anyone know where it was/is? Gen: Since my first "top of my head" response to this query, I have had a look at my microfiche copy of the New County History of Northumberland, Vol 4 (Hexhamshire, part 2, edited by John Crawford Hodgson, 1897). Heathery Burn is mentioned on pages 71 and 73, as follows. Page 71: The other small farmsteads in the High Quarter are ...... Heathery burn (on an affluent of the Boldon burn), which gives its name to the most remote of the three stinted pastures of the shire ..... . Page 71 (footnote): For Wester-meadows, West Field-nook and Heathery burn, Lord Crewe's trustees in 1800 received an allotment of freehold lands and 19 2/3 stints on the stinted pastures. Page 73: (Hexhamshire and Allendale Commons): The pastures belonging to Hexhamshire are three in number, and though not contained within them are common to the West, the Middle, and the High Quarter. They are: The Eshells Moor, of 2,355 acres ..... The Lillswood Moor of 2,103 acres .....The Heathery burn Moor of 450 acres, at the extreme south of the shire, with an elevation of 1,250 feet; with the Green cleugh,, the Heathery burn, and the Beldon burn, an affluent of the river Derwent." This may confuse you even more, but with a good map (eg the 1st edition OS 6" or better) you should be able to identify roughly where it was. Geoff Nicholson