146 Sturton Grange. By J. C. Hodgson. 



Grange; in 1754 and 1768, Marshall Eobinson, and in 1775 

 George Storey occupied the same office. In 1764 Marshall 

 Eobinson was one of the Four and Twenty : he was probably 

 the same man (or a near relative) whose name we find in the 

 Poll Book of 1747 residing at Craister and voting for lands at 

 Broxfield, and in the Poll Book of 1774 as living at Newton-by- 

 the-Sea, and again voting for lands at Broxfield. 



South Side was tenanted by the Tates (a branch of the Bank 

 House family). In 1723 we find George Tate a Churchwarden ; 

 in 1747, Wm. Tate for George Tate, and in 1761, George Tate 

 filled the office. In 1 750 John Clark of Hauxley married Phillis 

 Tate of South Side, and in the Hauxley Cottage deeds is a 

 marriage settlement of Margaret, daughter of John and Phillis 

 Clark, made in 1779 in which the remainder man is Wm. 

 Tate son of George Tate of South Side, deceased. Previous to the 

 purchase of the Grange by Messrs Jobson it was rented by Wm. 

 Story (possibly son of Geo. Story who was Churchwarden for the 

 Grange in 1775), who afterwards married Julia Csesar Porster, a 

 natural but acknowledged daughter of Chas. Francis Forster of 

 Low Buston. Her Father at his death left her half of what he 

 had to dispose of — in acknowledgement, she with her husband 

 took the name of Forster. They resided at Thropton Cottage 

 near Eothbury in which neighbourhood stories of her eccen- 

 tricities still linger. John Jobson was maternal grandfather to 

 Mr. W. T. Stead, the well-known editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. 



A romantic story is told of a lady connected with Eastfield. 

 She was a daughter of Edward Brown of East Chevington, who 

 died in 1785, and sister to Mrs. Johnson, Mr. Wm. Appleby's 

 mother. Miss Brown a lady of pleasing manners made the 

 acquaintance, while visiting at Morpeth, of a gentlemanly 

 Southerner — the acquaintance deepened into admiration with 

 marriage as the result. The gentleman took his bride home to 

 London, where she found ready for her a house of good style 

 and appointments. A mystery covered her husband's profession- 

 al pursuits, which woman like she must needs discover. Alas ! 

 another instance of the bliss of ignorance ! she found to her 

 utter consternation that her gentlemanly husband was a pro- 

 fessional beggar. The deceived woman fled from her husband's 

 roof, and reached her girlhood's home at Chevington. One day 

 her watchful eye caught sight of her husband's dreaded approach; 

 a minute's thought, she slipped through an open window, 

 mounted a horse, made her escape unperceived and reached the 



