Al's earliest Ogle ancestors,  we believe, may be John Ogle who married Jane Rankin in 1749 in Norham. We have yet to prove that this couple are, in fact, the John and Jane we are looking for.

The first proven ancestor was Thomas Ogle who was born around 1757, and whose parents were named John and Jane. Thomas was a farmer at Cheswick Knab, in Ancroft Parish – we know he was there from 1797 to 1813. In 1797, there was recorded in the registers the baptism of his son, Thomas, the mother being given as Mary Money, the housekeeper of Thomas. Subsequent baptisms of their children implied that a marriage had taken place, but this has not yet been found – no doubt, a border marriage!

Their second son, John Ogle, was born at Cheswick Knab in 1799. In 1840, he married Frances Lumsden (although, technically, she was Frances Anderson, having been married previously and had one daughter, Eleanor)  at Lamberton Toll. They had only one child. John is listed variously as a basket maker, an agricultural labourer and a mariner. It appears that he probably died before the census of 1871, but we have yet to find his death record.

Thomas Ogle was born on the January 2nd, 1842 in Lowick. He was a miner, as were many of our Northumbrian ancestors. He married Isabella Elizabeth Miller in 1872 in Bothal. They had three children, John, Frances and Elizabeth. His first wife died in 1883 and twenty months later, he married Isabella Ord, having one son, Thomas, from this marriage.

 Thomas’s daughter, Elizabeth Ogle, was born in 1879. She was a tailoress by profession. She married Andrew Dobbins in 1899, and died in 1912 in Ashington. Like her mother, she contracted tuberculosis.

 

 
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