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Several Reiver family names occur in Mary Turnbull’s ancestry.

Cowpen is situated on the southern bank of the River Blyth. Cowpen Square was built to house the coal miners and their families who came to Cowpen to work in the pits.

Brothers George and Thomas Besford were charged with Highway Robbery and tried at the Old Bailey in London on 7th September 1768.

David and Mary Besford lived at 19 Church Street, Amble, where they had twelve children, eight of whom survived beyond childhood.

The village of La Boisselle was the subject of heavy fighting during the First World War. George Besford (1893–1966) was wounded here in the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916.

Besford is a village in Shropshire, England.

Birtley is a village located about ten miles north of Hexham in Northumberland.

Radcliffe was once home to over 700 people. It was an independent and self-sufficient settlement with its own schools, shops, churches and working men’s club.

Percy Robert Smith Besford was Mentioned in Despatches in the 1944 King’s Birthday Honours.

Agnes de Besford was the daughter of Sir Alexander Besford and Beatrice Thornden.