Hartburn-area miscellaneous records
transcribed by Tony Palmer & Kay Stevens
updated Jan 2002

Hartburn 1709. Collections for the "Pallatine Brief" -
               Hartington, Farnelaws - Stephen Wanless, 6 shillings
               (Presumably a collection in support of the 7000 or so protestants
               from the Palatine region of Germany who emigrated via England
               to America and Ireland in that year).

Rothbury - 1727 "List of Poor maintained by parish" includes
"Eleanor Wanless  01-00-00" (one pound)

Hartburn - in 1740, Robert Wanles was a church warden

Hartburn March 21st. 1741 - Elected to "Four and Twenty"

                     9. Robert Wanles of the Corridge
                        (signed himself Robert Wandless)
                        
Hartburn Apr. 21st. 1747 - Elected to "Four and Twenty"

                     28. Robert Wanless of Camboe
                         (signed himself Robert Wanlis - very different from above)
** the "4 & 20" seems to have been a sort of local council


Neterwitton - Easter Monday 1750, 1751, 1752, 1767 and 1768
              Elected to Chapel Wardens - George Wanless

Neterwitton - 1752 Elected to "Twenty Four"

                    3. Mr. William Winship
                   10. George Wanless

In 1754/5 Lanc. Wanless was Church Warden

				 
Whellans History of Northumberland 1855 (as supplied by Colin Wanless)
page 729  Harnham, Hartburn parish, Mr Mark Wanless
page 735 , Walington, Hartburn parish, George Wanlace, farmer

In 1786 Mark Wanlace was Church Warden.