302 THE MANOR OF BEAL 



William Ord — probably his nephew — popularly called Justice Ord, 

 whose wife, Mary, was buried in the parish church of Holy Island 

 on the 13th of January, 1683-4.^3 j^ ^^s he who was party 

 to the deed of partition dated 11th November, 1684. 



He had a brother, George Ord, who practised in Wooler as 

 an attorney. He married 22nd June, 1682, at Holy Island, ^'^ 

 a certain Anna Ord, and some of their children were baptized at 

 the same church. George Ord was buried at Wooler on the 

 28th January, 1 704-5. ^'^ His daughter Anna, married, circa 1716, 

 the Rev. James Lawrie, minister of Kirkmichael, and previous 

 to her marriage obtained a very curious certificate of character 

 and of honourable decsent, from the parish minister of Kelso. ^^ 



The circumstances and the date of the alienation by the Ords 

 of their property at Beal are unknown, but there can be little 

 doubt that, indirectly, it was owing to the pressure on the family 

 fortunes by the fine exacted by the Commissioners for Com- 

 pounding Cases in the year 1649. 



In the absence of authoritative information the following 

 account has been pieced together ; but it leaves much to be 

 desired. 



In the beginning of the eighteenth century, the property 

 seems to have come into the possession — either by purchase, or 

 foreclosure — of Henry Forster, a Tyneside trader. He is some- 

 times described as of Uckeiby, a hamlet in Richmondshire, but 

 he had something to do with Jarrow, and in his will he is 

 described as of Cleadon, in the parish of Whitburn. ^^ He left 



^' Holy Island Register. 



^^ Wooler Register. 



'^ Printed in Proc. Newcastle Soc. Antiq., 3 Ser., Vol. iii., p. 95. 



•'^« 1740, Sept. 11. Will of Henry Forster of Cleadon, co. Durham. To 

 be decently interred in my vault in Jarrow church, and a marble tomb to 

 be built over it of the value of £100. To my brother-in-law, Jacob 

 Pearson and Elizabeth his wife, and the survivor, £100 per annum. My 

 executors to educate Henry Gibson till he be 16, and then to pay £50 to 

 apprentice him, and £50 afterwards. To Jacob and Cornelius Dove, sons 

 of Captain John Dove of Rotherhithe, London, £50 each. To Henry 

 son of Mr William Robinson of Munckton, £100 when 21. To Henry, son 

 of Mr William Forster of Weremonth, the fourth part of the ship Betty 

 whereof William Forster is master. Residue to my grandson, Henry 

 Burden and his heirs, and failing them to my grand- daughter, Sarah 

 Bardon, und to my nephew Jacob Pearson. 



