Second, but eventually eldest surviving son of Robert Surteys/Surtees of Ryton, co Durham and Catherine Hauxley, baptised November 1663 at Ryton
Married Jane Crosyer2,3 on the 27th of June 1693 in Heighington 6
Children
Robert, born at Newbiggin on the 12th of May 16943
Eleanor, baptised on the 28th of July 1696 (married Robert Culley of Denton)3, 7
George, baptised on the 18th of May 1698, of Mainsforth, died unmarried in 1769 3
Catherine, baptised Mar 1700 at Ryton
Crosier, baptised on the 7th of January 1702 at Ryton
Jane, baptised on the 22nd of February 1704 at Ryton (married Thomas Hutchinson of Cornforth 9 Nov 1727 at Bishop Middleham)
Hauxley, baptised on the 14th of August 1705 at Ryton
James, baptised on the 19th of August 1707 at Ryton (died 1775 without issue3)
Married Dorothy Reed (ne้ Burletson) in 1714 in Sherburn, Durham4, or 1715 3
Died on the 28th of August 1747 aged 84 5
1 Purchased the estate of Mainsforth in Durham from the Hutton family in 1708.
2 Jane Crosier, youngest daughter and co-heir of George Crosier, esq. of Newbiggin
3 Information from Burke's Commoners 1836
4 Ancestral File on IGI
5 Burke gives 1744, aged 84
6 Heighington marriages http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/Transcriptions/DUR/HEI.html
7 Burke says this Eleanor married Robert Culley of
Denton. The introduction of Surtees Society v210 says Eleanor Surtees
born 1696, daughter of Robert Surtees of Mainsforth, married Matthew
Culley of Denton - but Robert Surtees of Mainsforth did not marry until
1761?
An Eleanor Surtees married William Farrow on the 23rd of October 1724 at
Cockfield, Co Durham (IGI)