Thomas Besford (1833–1914)
Thomas Besford worked as a coal miner throughout his life. He was left with four young children when his wife died of smallpox.
Horton
Horton is a former parish in Northumberland about 2 miles (3 km) west of Blyth, on the south side of the River Blyth. It was absorbed into Blyth in 1920, and little of it survives beyond two farms, Horton Road and the parish church of St Mary the Virgin.
Robert Besford and Isabella Robson
Robert Besford (1792–1844) married Isabella Robson at the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdelene, Mitford, Northumberland, on 18th April 1818.