Dear List, Has anyone any idea where Beckington, Durham was/is? I am searching a family living at Amble, Northumberland. They are David Hall (born Pateley Bridge, Yorks about 1805) and his wife Ann (born East Witton, Yorks about 1807). I am endeavouring to establish Ann's maiden name and am hoping that I'll be able to do this via one of their children's birth registrations. I have been in touch with Woodhorn and North Yorks records offices and there are no records of marriages for the couple in Northumberland, Durham, Pateley Bridge or East Witton. In the 1841 and 1851 censuses the family is at Warkworth, Amble. In 1851, the two oldest children listed David and Mary, are recorded as having been born at Beckington, Durham. (In the 1841 census there is an older son, John, born about 1831, which suggests the couple married in the late 1820s/1830. They have with them a family friend, Mary Bow born 1801, Gateshead. Could Beckington be somewhere in Gateshead? Any thoughts on any of this would be hugely welcome. Pamela