Newcastle

William Bestford was born near Blaydon in 1862. He served in India with the Northumberland Fusiliers, then worked as a coal miner around Winlaton, and died in Newcastle in 1922.

John Besford (1826–1914) and Margaret Patterson (1827–1914) were married at All Saints’ Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 12th November 1850. They had eight children.