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Scan 18
John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1following inscription—"Beneath is the burial place of the Family of Askew of Redheugh."
3At Balton-le-Dale, Michael Askew of Moorton was buried the 3rd of December, 1742, and Ann Askew of the same place on the 20th of January, 1755. At Corbridge, Thomas, first son of James Turnbull, Dilston, native of Simon Burn, by his wife Elizabeth Askew, native of the parish of Allendale, was born the 29th of June, 1811. At the same place John Nicholson and Jane Askew, Corbridge, were married in December, 1803.
5At Stanhope, Jonathan Askew and Jane Milburn were married in August, 1743. A George Askew was witness to the marriage of William Barron, of the parish of Blanchland, and Mary Walton of Stanhope, in July, 1786.
7In the Stanhope registers we find the following:—George Askew, bap. 13th Nov., 1825, and who died in 1865, aged 39 years, was the son of George Askew, cordwainer,* and his wife Elizabeth of Stanhope, George
9*CORDWAINER, which means shoemaker, is a naturalised form of French Cordonnier, one who works in cordways or Spanish leather,
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