Amble and Hauxley. By J. C Hodgson. 97 



Ann, and Frances. To Robert the eldest son, he had released, 

 14th and 15th January 1716-7,*' a messuage and 3 farms in 

 Amble, and 2 farms in Guyzance. 



The latter married Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Timothy 

 Punshon of Killingworth and Alnwick, the founder and first 

 minister of the Branton meeting, by his wife Margaret, daughter 

 of Nathaniel Salkeld of Alnwick. ^^ The marriage settlement is 

 dated Ist and 2nd May 1722. This Robert Widdrington of 

 Bondgate Hall, Alnwick, in 1731 was one of the original trustees 

 of Bondgate Meeting House :^^ he voted for Hauxley in 1722, 

 1734, and 1748, and was buried at Warkworth in 1751. By 

 his will, dated 5th July 1747, he devised his lands in Hauxley, 

 Coquet Island, Amble, Alnwick, and Guyzance, to his brother 

 John Widdrington of Newcastle, and to Richard Grieve of 

 Alnwick, in trust for his eldest son, John Widdrington, and 

 portions of £300 a-piece to his younger children, Nathaniel, 

 William, Frances, Mary, and Elizabeth." 



His eldest son and heir, John Widdrington, described as of 

 Alnwick, attorney, in 1753 conveyed 3 ridges of land at 

 Hauxley to his neighbour, John Clark.*- In the same year, for 

 the purpose of discharging the portions of his younger brothers 

 and sisters, he borrowed £2000 from Percivel Horsley, on 

 mortgage on his lands in Hauxley, Amble, Warkworth, 

 Guyzance, and free fishing in the Coquet and in the sea. By 



^■^ Hauxley Abstract. — Rev. John Hodgson's MSS. 



^In the floor of Alnwick chancel is a grave cover bearing the following 

 inscription, which has been extended by Canon Raine : — 



TiMOTiiiEO Punshon | Killingwokthensi | Viro Dilecto Merito 

 AMato Patri viro pientissimo | Margaheta | conjux e gente | 

 Salkeldiana I Gemrns Posuit | vixit ANN 49 I OBiiT iMPeranti 

 GEORGio I Pio Fideli in. | 

 And in the Alnwick Registers occurs the following entry : — " Mr Punshon 

 late minister of Branton, buried 29th December 1716," i.e. the third 

 year of George I. 



The Punshons were an old family, owning lands at Killingworth and in 

 Tynemouthshire. The writer has given some account of them in Arch. 

 ^1., Vol. XV., p. 154. 

 •^® Tate's Alnwick, ii., p. 172. 



3' The Rev. John Hodgson's MSS. ' E,' pp. 21-22-28. 

 •'^ Hauxley Cottage Deeds. 



His Gi'ace the Duke of Northumberland has appointed John Widdring- 

 ton, Esq.of Hauxley, His Grace's auditor, in the room of Richard Seamour, 

 Esq., who has resigned. — Newcatstle Courant, 14th March 1767. 

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