Farming

In June 2014, a crop circle, featuring a star design, appeared in a field off Harewell Lane, in Besford.

Robert was an agricultural labourer. He had three daughters with his first wife Mary. After her death, he had two sons with his second wife Ann Goodfellow.

John was born at Snitter and became an agricultural labourer. He and his wife Mary Felton had seven children.

Robert Besford (1792–1844) married Isabella Robson at the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdelene, Mitford, Northumberland, on 18th April 1818.

Ann Besford was working as a servant at Earsdon West Forest Farm north of Morpeth by the time she was 16 years old. She had six sons, five of whom survived to adulthood.

John Besford was employed as a labourer at Cheviot Farm, Hallington. He married Isabella Wright in 1819 and died before the birth of his third child.

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

Robert Besford was an agricultural labourer. His first wife Isabella died aged 24. He married Mary Marshall in 1821.

George Besford was born at Countess Park, a farm two miles north of Birtley, Northumberland. He married Mary Dodd, with whom he had eight children.

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