John Heckels Genealogy Interests
HECKELS (or HECKELS)
I’m interested in the occurrence of Heckles anywhere in the world at any time. The earliest record we have is from Leicestershire in 1548 but most instances occur in North East England after 1625. Other branches of the family became established in Cumberland and Yorkshire. Our earliest detailed records date from the marriage of George Heckles to Rebbecca Harrison in All Saints, Newcastle on Tyne. It is their sons George (born 1753) and Richard (born 1764) who are the direct ancestors of all the Heckels family members for whom we have details.
ARCHBOLD Chatton & Wooler, NBL, UK 1750-1860
James Archbold was born abt. 1749. He married Ann Brown and the family lived in Chatton, Northumberland. Their children born 1811-1834 were 1772-1886 were Eleanor, Elizabeth, Ann, George and Isabella.
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BARKER Barnard Castle, DUR 1827-1891
Hannah Barker the daughter of George Barker and his wife, who’s name we do not have, was born in Barnard Castle abt. 1827. We have no other information on George’s other family. Hannah was living in Bishopwearmouth near Sunderland, Co. Durham, when she married Henry Yarrow in 1848.
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BEATTIE Chatton & Wooler, Northumb, UK 1987-1904
We can trace the origins of the Beattie family back to George Beattie born abt. 1787 in Chatton, Northumberland. George was a stone mason who may have had his roots over the border in Scotland. He married Isabella Archbold, their children William, James, Johnathon, Richard, Ann, Robert, Joseph and Ester were born in Chatton between 1811 and 1834. Of the sons William and Richard are also known to have become stone masons. Richard’s family subsequently moved to nearby Wooler where they established the family firm of George Beattie and Sons, which was responsible for building many of the farmhouses and railway stations in the area.
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DIXON Chillingham & Wooler, NBL, UK 1787-1850
William Dixon was born abt. 1787 probably around Chillingham, Northumberland. He and his wife Elizabeth were living in Chillingham when their children Elizabeth, James, Job and Isabella were born 1820-1830. In 1845 Elizabeth Dixon married Robert Morton, a shoemaker, who lived next door.
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DODSWORTH Selby, YKS 1780-1900
The Dodsworth family have lived around the town of Selby, Yorkshire for at least two hundred years. The earliest confirmed connection is with William Dodsworth, a farmer, and his son John born in Selby abt 1811. John married Mary Ann Lamb in Selby Abbey in 1837. The family were living in Abbey Yard when their children William, Asenath, Susannah, Maria, Harriet, James, John, Enoch, Matthew and Harriet were born between 1838 and 1855.
We know that three of the sons married and raised their families in Selby. William married Mary Ann Parker, their children were Fredric, Arthur, Annie Maria and John William. Enoch and his wife had three daughters, Ann, Lucy and Emily. Matthew married Elizabeth; their children were Alice, Charlotte and Arthur. James became a ships carpenter and married Eliza Jane Graham from Newry in Ireland, they had three children Mary Ann, Harry and Lucy. Only Lucy appears to have survived to become an adult when she married William Hunter Yarrow
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GRAHAM Newry, IRL > Selby, YKS 1848-1890
Eliza Jane Graham was born in Newry, Ireland abt. 1848. We do not have any information on her parents. Around the age of twenty she married John Dodsworth from Selby, in Yorkshire. We do not know whether John was working in Ireland or if Eliza Jane had previously moved to Yorkshire.
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HUGGUP (OR HUBBUCK) Wallsend, NBL, UK 1746-1851
John Huggup was born in Longbenton, Northumberland in 1746, he married Margaret Mitchinson in 1773. We know of four children John, Jane, Mary and William born 1776-1782. Mary Huggup married George Heckels in Longbenton in 1803.
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KELL Merrington, Ferryhill, Auckland, DUR, UK 1734-1936
Kells have lived in south west Durham for at least 250 years. We know of Samuel Kell who married Honor Youl in Bishop Middleham in 1764. They lived in Kirk Merrington and had at least eight children born in the ten year peroid 1765-1775. The only descendants that we of result from the marriage of their son Samuel who married Barbara Hall from Chester le Street in 1798. They had thirteen children, including nine sons, William, George, John, Ralph, Samuel, Samuel Hall, Thomas, Matthew and Thomas. These sons produced a large extended family who continued to live in the Merrington, Ferryhill area. They and their children continued to use the same family names for several generations. In particular the use of Hall as a second name became common.
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MARSHALL Chatton & Wooler, NBL, UK 1814-1876
Isabella Marshall was born about 1815 probably in the Chatton area near to Wooler in Northumberland. We have no information on her parents. Around 1845 she married Richard Beattie, a stone mason. They lived in Chatton for some years before moving to live in Wooler.
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MORTON Chillingham, Wooler & North Shields, NBL, UK 1791-1960
Andrew Morton was born around 1791 in Ellingham, Northumberland. He was living in Heckley Fence, Anlwick with his first wife Dorothy when their one child Isabella was born in 1812. However Dorothy died the following year. A year later Andrew remarried, Ann Stewart. After their first child George was born in 1815 the family moved to Newtown, Chillingham where Andrew worked on a local farm. Nine more children followed in the years between 1817 and 1836, Robert, Ralph, James, Elizabeth, Thomas, Jane, Steohen, William and John. Robert Morton who was born in 1817,worked as a shoemaker and in 1845 he married "the girl next door", Elizabeth Dixon. Their three children Elizabeth, William and Isabella were born in Newtown 1847-1856, after this the family moved to Wooler. In 1875 Elizabeth Dixon Morton married George Beattie the owner of a local building firm.
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PEARSON South Shields, DUR, UK 1770-1859
Thompson Pearson was probably born after 1770 in the South Shields area, where he married Ann Bolton. We have no further information on their parents but Thompson was probably related to an Albion Pearson who was living in South Shields at the same time. Their first child Maria was born in 1797 followed by Bolton, Thompson, Elvira, Margaret, Albion Sarah and Ann. The use of the name Albion has continued in their descendants to the present day. Ann Pearson was born in 1810 and in 1831 she married John Heckels in Christ Church, Tynemouth.
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QUINN or QUINNEN Auckland, Ferryhill, UK 1830-1880
Catherine Quinn was born in Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham abt. 1885. She was the daughter of Dominic Quinn (or Quinnen) and sister of John born aby 1881. We do not know the name of Dominic's wife. John married Bridgit (surname unknown) and they had three children Mary, John and Charles born 1875 and 1877, before Bridgit died. Catherine Quinn married Matthew Kell, a miner, in 1877. After Matthew died Catherine married his brother Ralph Kell in 1887.
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STAMP Wallsend, NBL, UK 1750-1800
Isabella Stamp was born in Wallsend, Northumberland probably around 1750.we have no information about her parents. In 1776 she married George Heckles, the couple had five children before George died in 1786. The following year Isabella remarried, Thomas Dixon, they had at least one child Sarah Dixon who was born in Longbenton in 1789.
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WIGHAM Newcastle & N. Shields, NBL> Gateshead DUR, UK 1800-1911
Thomas Wigham was born abt. 1790, possibly in Newcastle on Tyne. He married Margaret (surname unknown) and we know of only one child Richard Wigham, born 1812 in North Shields. Richard married Ann Duncan Grainger in 1840 in Gateshead, their daughter Elizabeth Wigham was born 1841 in East Howden, Northumberland. We know of no further children and it seems possible that Ann died shortly afterwards. Elizabeth Wigham married John William Heckels 1863 in Gateshead.
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YARROW Newcastle, NBL> Sunderland,DUR >Wednesbury, STS> Selby, YKS> Shildon DUR 1800-1934
Henry Yarrow was born around 1800 probably in Newcastle on Tyne. He was living there with his wife when their son Henry was born in 1823. Henry subsequently moved to Sunderland where he married Hannah Barker in 1848. Their first son Philip was born in Sunderland in 1852. The family then moved to Wednesbury, Staffordshire where further children Philip, Ann, Elizabeth, Francis, Henry, John George, William Hunter were born between 1858 and 1865. Henry worked as an engineer in the local ironworks. Around 1880 Hannah died and Henry moved with the younger children to Selby, Yorkshire. It was here that William Hunter Yarrow married Lucy Dodsworth in 1890. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Shildon, Co. Durham where William worked as a colliery engineer. Their children Beatrice May, Eliza Jane, Mary Annie, William, William, Sydney Harry and Clifford Barker were born between 1893 and 1917. In 1915 Eliza Jane Yarrow married Thomas William Kell.
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