In a message dated 22/11/2009 12:45:32 GMT Standard Time, Belindadance@aol.com writes: My ancestor Robert Humble b 1764, was born at Chatton Quarry House and his father also lived at Chatton Draw Kill House, Linkylaw and Brownrigg. I can't find Draw Kill House but have been to see the other three properties which still exist. Does anyone have any idea where Draw Kill House may have been? I agree with other comments re "kill" being really "kiln". In Vol 14 of the New County History of Northumberland, edited by Madelaine Hope Dodds (1935), page 210 (Chatton Parish), it says that "in 1700 Gilbert Swinhoe held the mill and the kiln (?malt kiln) for a rent of £9 (Alnwick Castle MSS B, i, no 6). The mill was beside the River Till, as it was a water corn mill and earlier references to it mention also the mill-haugh (ie the flood-plain of the river) and the Mill Island. One wonders about the use of the malt-kiln. Were the millers running a side-line in home-made whisky, I wonder? In any case, the mill was near/in Chatton Park, a little to the east of the village. The Northumberland Communiities web-site will give you a lot of general background about Chatton, though it tends to be biased towards the 19th century. Geoff Nicholson