280 Amhle and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 



her father's heiress, married Captain Andrew Moffat Well- 

 wood^^ of Garvock, and died 1st August 1847, also leaving 

 an only child, Ann, who married 1st Jas. Boswell, a Scottish 

 advocate, and 2nd Ralph Clark. By the 1st marriage she 

 became mother to a daughter, Maria, who married, 21st 

 December 1848, Mr Alex. Rattray: their son, Mr Alex. 

 Wellwood Rattray, sold Amble House and the rest of his 

 estate there by auction, in parcels, in August 1875. The 

 estate realized about £15,000.** 



Reed's Estate. Wm. Reed, in 1663, was rated for lands 

 of the yearly value of £10, equal to one farm. In 1722 

 Robt. Reed of Amble voted for lands there. An estate, 

 perhaps theirs, described as rich pasture, meadow, and arable 

 land, with dwelling house, byre, barn, etc., of the rent of 

 £50, was advertised for sale in Newcastle Journal, 12th May 

 1764, application to be made to Mr John Ormston, linen 

 draper, and Mr John Richardson, attorney-at-law, Newcastle. 

 Probably it too was absorbed by the Taylors. The family 

 seems to have had some lands in Guyzance as well. 



Bullock's Estate. In the particulars of the royal grant 

 of 1629, Robt. Bullock would seem to have held an old 

 manor house or site in the street of Amble, worth 3s. 4d. 

 per annum, and in the following year Robt. Bullock, or 

 Margaret, his widow, held copyhold lands of the annual value 

 of 9s. 9d. The holding- must have been a very small one, 

 for the name does not appear in the rate book of 1663, though 

 it reappears in the poll book of 1722, when Geo. Bullock 

 voted fur a freehold. Their house still stands at the west end 

 of the town, massively built, covered with heavy grey slates. 

 The following epitaph is in Warkwortli churchyard. "Here 

 lyeth the body of Robert Bullock, who departed this Life the 

 17th Day of December, Anno Domini 1698, Freehold[er] of 

 Amble. Phillice, his wife, who departed January 12th 1717," 

 and the Register records the burial, in 1809, of Margaret 



'^ 12th March 1794. Andrew Moffat Wellwood, parish of Dunfermline 

 in Fife, and Maria Taylor of Amble, mar. — WarJcworth Register. 



^'Amble Link House, 181 acres, purchased by Smith's Trustees for £9300. 

 Amble House, If acres, purchased by Dr Currie for £2100. 

 Old grass field, 12i acres, purchased by Thos. Potts for £2250. 

 Wellwood Arms inn. Salt Panns, &c. — Conditions of Sale and Title Deeds. 



