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Jane was the wife of [[Scott, Matthew|Matthew Scott]] and lived in [[Cruddas Terrace]], Bellingham, at [[1 Cruddas Terrace|Number 1]] in 1871 and in [[8 Cruddas Terrace|Number 8]] in 1881. She was born Jane Rochester in Matfen in 1838. Her father Joseph was a shoemaker employing one Apprentice – which may have been Jane’s older brother Thomas. Her mother was Margaret who had been born in Corbridge. Jane married [[Scott, Matthew|Matthew Scott]] on 23 January 1858. They had at least six children but also ‘fostered’ babies and young children. She was widowed in 1896. She was visiting her son John Thomson Scott and his family in Arthur’s Hill, Elswick on the night the 1901 Census was taken. Jane Scott died in Bellingham in 1906.

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