Milburn, Henry
Henry Milburn and his wife Isabella Milburn (nee Atkinson) were living in 3 Cruddas Terrace, Bellingham in 1871 with their four children – Dorothy (10), Elizabeth (8), Mary I (5) and William (3). Henry was a labourer. He was born in 1829, the son of William, an agricultural labourer and his wife, Elizabeth of Longhaugh Shields. He then worked on the farms himself, being found in 1851 as a farm servant in the Chollerton area. In the second quarter of 1859 he married Isabella Atkinson in Bellingham. In 1861 he was employed as a labourer on the railway and was living at an unspecified address in Bellingham. In 1873 or 1874 the family moved to Scots Gap Cottage in Hartburn where he was employed as a labourer. By 1881 he was living in East House, Front Row, Cambo where his specific job was stonewaller and mason. The family continued living in Cambo and Henry had retired as a stonewaller by 1911. His wife, Isabella left him a widower in 1913. He died in 1915 and his death was registered in Morpeth in the first quarter of 1915.