Scott, Matthew

Matthew Scott was the twin son of Matthew, a farm labourer and Isabella Scott of Low Stobilee. He was baptised in Bellingham on 28 September 1834. His father had changed occupations by 1851 and was now a road maker. Matthew married Jane Rochester from Stamfordham on 23 January 1858 in Corbridge. They set up home at Bellingham Bridge End where Matthew worked as a road maker and their first child, Mary was born. The move to 1 Cruddas Terrace followed and in 1871 he had become an ironstone miner. There were now four children: - Mary (11), Isabella (9), Ann Grace (5) and John Thomas (1 month. With the family there was also a ten-month-old boarder, Anne Cowan. The family moved from 1 Cruddas Terrace to number 8 where Matthew was now a general labourer and two sons – John Thomas and Matthew Joseph – had joined the family. The oddest thing about the 1891 Census, when the family were living at The Mill, Bellingham was not the Matthew styled himself as a road contractor but that there were two nurse children in the household – Thomas Matthew (4) and Robert J Burns (1). Matthew Scott died in the second quarter of 1896.