Notes

1    Main source of information - Hodgson's pedigree of the Ords of Ardley and Barker-house

2    Made will in 1676 but did not die until 1696. In 1662 he had also made a deed of gift in case of his death of his possessions towards bringing up his six children and providing them with portions⁷. By 1676 Thomas had died, Margaret had married and died.

3    Richard and his brother John joined the early Baptist church - they were baptized into the church on the 21st day of the 5th month (May? August?) 1652. See extract from Hexham Baptist records. " This accounts for no baptism records at Hexham for Richard, Thomas, Phoebe or Dorcas.

4    In the baptism records for Margaret and Barbara, Richard is described as being of Ye Holmes. High Holmes is 1km south-west of Whitley Chapel and, according to Hodgson, was in the possession of Richard Ord of Nether Ardley by 1653. It was part of the estate left by his grand-daughter Elizabeth Armstrong in 1770. In 1608 it had been held by a James Dixon.

5    In 1671 Richard and John were joint tenants of Sir Francis Radclyffe at East Brokenheugh near Haydon Bridge. (Archaelogia Aeliana Vol 1 1857 p127). However both had probably made their homes elsewhere by this time - Richard at Nether Ardley and John at Barker House.

6    Richard is known to have married one of the three daughters (and co-heiresses) of Gerrard Errington of Dalton. The three daughters were Elizabeth, Mary and Jane. Elizabeth married John Johnson of Hamburn Hall in 1663, leaving Mary and Jane as candidates for Richard's wife.  Gerrard's only male heir (John) was buried on 3rd July 1655 leaving the three sisters very marriageable. It is implied that the three sister's were unmarried at the time of John Errington's death else the manorial records would have given the husband's name but Richard would have appeared to have married by 1649. By this marriage Richard acquired one sixth of Nether Ardley, Ardley Stob, Dalton, White-Hall, Hole-House and Moor Close.

Richard's second wife, Susanna, was the widow of John Thirlwall of Nether Ardley who had inherited half of Nether Ardley etc. John Thirlwall had left three sons and a daughter. Two sons died before Richard's marriage to Susannah and the third son died three years after the marriage. Another John Thirlwall, presumably the eventual heir 'surrendered' (ie sold the tenancy) of his half of Nether Ardley and Ardley Stob to Richard Ord in 1685.

John and Susannah Thirlwall were also Baptists.

7    Could the deed of gift of 1662 have had anything to do with the so-called 'Muggleswick Plot' of 1662 with which Richard and John Orde were supposedly implicated?