From: Geoff Nicholson Sue: According to the National Index of Parish Registers (NIPR), Ponteland (Kirkley) Presbyterian Church was founded in 1672 but no more information is known about that. Later entries are "probably" in Stamfordham Presbyterian register. The NIPR entry for Stamfordham Presbyterian Church says that was founded about 1662 and the original registers, when the local NIPR volume was last published (1984) were still with the incumbent. However, copies were in Northumberland Record Office, and the LDS had a microfilm and had put a summary of the information on the IGI. Bearing in mind developments since 1984 it now seems possible that the original registers could be themselves in Northumberland Record Office (ie Woodhorn), or perhaps in Dr Williams' Library in London, and the IGI seems to have been overtaken by the LDS "FamilySearch" web site. The main drawback to what I have just said is that I have a copy of the final (1992, ie after the 1984 edition of the NIPR) microfiche edition of the IGI and that has no suitable entry on it at all. I am also not sure about your identification of Kirkley with Thorneyford. Perhaps someone else will know more than I do about that. I take it also that you are aware that in older registers the name Reynold often appears and that is really an older form of Reginald, so you should be looking for either when you search for Reginald. The use of a Presbyterian Church, plus the Scottish surname of Blair would both seem to point to the family having arrived from Scotland some time perhaps not long before 1792. Geoff Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: S Horsman via <northumbria@rootsweb.com> To: northumbria <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 9:58 Subject: [NMB] Reginald Blair / Hannah Charlton Reginald Blair married Hannah Charlton in 1792 at Ponteland. Ive found baptisms of 2 children, (Mary and Hannah) at Thorneyford (Kirkley) Presbyterian, but the records there start too late for the baptism of my ancestor Joseph Blair (born 1802 - details from the family bible). Census records tell me Joseph was born at Berwick Hill. Daughter Hannah married at Newcastle st John in 1828. My ancestor Joseph married at Bolam in 1833. Reginald and wife Hannah seem to have been buried at St John in 1821 and 1820. This info gives Reginald's date of birth as about 1754. I appreciate that early non conformist records are not fully comprehensive - but can anyone identify any other children for Reginald and Hannah. Also where was Reginald from and who were his parents ? Thanks Sue Horsman .. Please quote the minimum necessary to put your reply on context. Please introduce yourself at the top of every post. The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message