[Pete Lee]

Posted on behalf of Laura Telfer:
Hi, I’m wandering if you can help,
my late grandmother Moreen Hirst nee Gibbison was born in Hexham in 1930 and was put into a children’s home until a few years later when her mother and grandmother took her back out of there. My grandmother never talked about it when she was alive but we do know from doing our Ancestory online looking at records that my grandmother was living with her mother Gertrude Gibbison in burradon farm cottages at the age of 9.
A friend made a suggestion that I could always get intouch with yourself and alsoHexham council and as they ran both Fellside and another children’s home and we assume that Fellside is where my nana was.
We do know now that my grandmothers father was Christopher Telfer who ran the farm where her mother was working Holly Hall Hexham as his brothers grandson has had his DNA done and shows that he is my mams 2nd-3rd cousin and that their connection is their great grandfather John Telfer, proving that Christopher Telfer is the father.
We would also love to find some photographs of them which we’ve searched for online but haven’t found any.
Thankyou
Laura Turnbull

[Pete Lee]

Hextol Court in Hexham was apparently Hexham Nursery & Child Welfare in 1933. There are photos in the Hextol Court Gallery in the Photo Archive (https://www.hexhamhistorian.org/historic-hexham/photograph-archive/photo-archive-choices/hexham-choices/hospital-and-care-homes-choices/hextol-court-gallery/).

There is a photo from 1939 in the Abbey Gallery of a butcher’s shop named HH Telfer (look for PC136 in https://www.hexhamhistorian.org/historic-hexham/photograph-archive/photo-archive-choices/hexham-choices/churches-and-chapels-choices/abbey-gallery/).

There is a photo from c1936 of Settlingstones mine showing a man named R Telfer (look for HL0802 in https://www.hexhamhistorian.org/historic-hexham/photograph-archive/photo-archive-choices/other-places-choices/fourstones-and-newbrough-gallery/).

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