Daughter of Robert Surtees and Dorothy Lambton, [baptised on the 12th of July 1751 at Heighington1]
Married Crosier Surtees on the 12 of September 1769 at Heighington
Children
Robert, born 1782 4
George 4
James 4
Jane (married George Charles Mensforth on the 16th of February 1797 at Heighington3)
Dorothy (married John Thomas Christopher on the 16th of August 1796 at Heighington3)
Lambton, (married William Williams Esq, buried 27th of September 1786 at Heighington)
Phillis (married William Horne on the 22nd of February 1805 at Heighington3)
Buried/died
1 Ancestral file on IGI
2 "For example, when Robert married Dorothy Lambton, of Hardwick, in 1744, his father - Edward of Mainsforth - was so displeased that he disinherited him.To spite his dad, Robert bought and rebuilt Redworth Hall, near Heighington. Robert's heiress was his daughter, Jane. Whoever married her would gain a fortune of £20,000 and Redford Grove.According to Hilary Jackson's history of Heighington, she was only 17 in 1769 when, urged on by her mother, she "rashly married her cousin Crosier Surtees, of Merryshields, who was a son of her father's brother". (Merryshields is probably near Hexham. ) Says the Rev Jackson: "Crosier was a mean and grasping man who had a brief and undistinguished career in the Durham Militia, the forerunner of Durham Light Infantry." His cap and portrait are on display in the DLI museum.Crosier, who was 13 years older than his wife, treated her cruelly.In 1800, after 31 years of marriage, they separated - probably because Crosier was carrying on with a local farm lass.He lived out the end of his days with her in Pennington Rake, an isolated farm on the moors above the forest. Jane, meanwhile, took up with a clergyman.Crosier's days ended quite suddenly. In 1803, he was returning, very drunk, from a banquet with Lord Barnard in Raby Castle. Somewhere on the moors, his horse failed to negotiate a stream properly.He tumbled from the saddle, fell into the water, and froze to death."
[Pennington Rake was, in fact, very close to the site of the later Redford Grove. The stream where Crosier is said to have been found is Linburn Beck. The 'farm lass' - if such she was - was Jane Shaw, by whom Crosier had four illegitimate children baptised at Hamterley. AJS]
3 Heighington marriages http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/Transcriptions/DUR/HEI.html
4 Burke's Commoners 1836