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: Are you sure it was in Whitley Chapelry? The best-known Heathery Burn is in Stanhope parish (Weardale) and it is usually referred to in connection with the discovery of a cave there which had been home to some prehistoric families - I won't comment as to whether they could have been your ancestors! Geoff Nicholson