Bedlington

Dora Besford spent two years training to be a teacher at City of Leeds Training College, and returned to teach at Hirst North Girls School.

David Besford worked for the Cooperative Wholesale Society in Newcastle, where he met his future wife Joan Matthews. He drove a fire engine during the Second World War, and later joined the Civil Service.

George Bestford was born at Bensham, Gateshead. He served in the First World War, and later moved to Pretoria where he joined the South African Police.

William Thomas Besford was born in 1856. He worked as a miner and had two children with his wife Elizabeth, before becoming the landlord of The Waterloo Hotel on Queen Street, Amble, Northumberland.

Catherine Besford worked as a general servant in a household in Bedlington. In 1903 she married Robert Gordon, a coal miner, at Gateshead Register Office.

Henry Besford, always known as Harry, went to school in Bedlington and then studied Physics, becoming a Senior Medical Physicist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

Mary Besford was born on the farm where her parents were living and working. She worked on the farm, and later as a dressmaker.

William Besford worked as a coal miner until he retired, and was later recorded at age 77 to be working as a grocer in the 1891 census.