Our meeting on Monday, 11 January 2016 was time for the AGM, discussion of our new year's programme, and listening to part of an oral history recording made by Mr & Mrs Hall speaking about village life in Heddon in the years around 1904 and 1914. The recording (about two hours in length) was made on 08/02/1978, and is available at the Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn, reference T/114 and T/116. I transcribed part of the same recording during my first visit to the archives in 2011.
My background notes to the recording are given below.
My background notes to the recording are given below.
- Mrs Isabella Hall (nee Gibson) was born in Blue Row, Heddon on the Wall in 1894.
- Her father was John Potts Gibson b.1865.
- Lived for a time at Iron Sign (along Military Road beyond Rudchester).
- Returned to Heddon – several cottages.
- 1911 Census shows living with her aunt Hannah Gibson, probably in middle one of the three Carters Cottages on Towne Gate, Heddon.
- Married Robert (‘Bobbie’) Hall from Newburn in 1923.
- Both of Robert's parents came from Newburn where his father was employed as a blacksmith.
- Robert Hall died February 1987.
The Gibsons are one of the oldest families in Heddon. I managed to piece together some of their lines from Census records. Additional information has been added from a more detailed family tree kindly provided by a living relative, Ralph Gibson, son of Edward Septimus Gibson, now resident in Stamfordham.
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