See family group on Bob Green's email to the Coxon Digest dated 25/11/2000
B. The rationale in point A tells me implicitly that my ancestor William
> Coxon does NOT fit into that family line. Other negative evidence is: 1)he
> was born probably a year before John & Barbara married; 2) the class
> boundaries were such that no-one of the gentry class or even a Church of
> England minister's son would become a labourer or miller; 3) the strong
> Presbyterianism of William and Susannah makes any Church of England
> linkage most unlikely. So I've had to look elsewhere, and the most
> comfortable fit I've found(i.e. one that you don't lie in bed thinking
about> at 3.00am) is set out below.
>
> This William was born in 1736 at Woollaw, Elsdon parish, became part of
the eastward drift of labourers looking for work or a better standard of
living, as did his brother George, and other Coxons in Redesdale. From what I can
> discern the Mathers were already millers at Brinkburn - and perhaps at
> Overgrass - when William presumably arrived and got work as a labourer.
> Susannah's parents were both dead, (leaving 4 preteen children) by the
time
> of her marriage to William, so they must have been looked after by family
at or near Brinkburn. I haven't found the linkage between Susannah's father
> William Mather, mason of Alnwick, and the Brinkburn-Longframlington
Mathers
> but the circumstantial evidence says there has to have been one.


Living at Woollaw, Birdhopecraig in 18371
> NB. Old Book gives marriage date as 14 Jan., 1731, by license.2
> 1780 - died a pauper2

BIRDHOPECRAIG UNITED REFORMED (FORMERLY PRESBYTERIAN) CHURCH RECORDS
Catalogue Ref. UR/P6
Creator(s):
Birdhopecraig United Reformed Church, Northumberland
Birdhopecraig Presbyterian Church, Northumberland
PROPERTY RECORDS.
 Deeds & Leases - ref. UR/P6/4/1/1-3

      FILE - Lease of dwelling house & land belonging to Robert Anderson in High Rochester & all other property belonging to Robert Anderson on the same township - ref.  UR/P6/4/1/1  - date: 8 May 1755
         [from Scope and Content] Parties: Robert Anderson, gentleman, of Birdhopecraig; Edward Laing, gentleman, of The Hill, Elsdon; Thomas Reed, gentleman, of Shittlehaugh; Matthew Anderson, gentleman, of Birdhopecraig; Mark Hedley, gentleman, of The Stobbs, William Marshall, gentleman, of Bygate Hall; John Marshall, gentleman, of Rooking; George Chisholm, gentleman, of The Stobbs; Anthony Coxon, gentleman of Moolaw; William Henderson, gentleman, of Milkwood; Anthony Heron, gentleman, of Yetsfield; Ephriam Hall, gentleman, of Storridge; John Hall, gentleman, of Rochester; John Fletcher, gentleman of Cleughbrae & Anthony Lang, gentleman, of The Dangs. (From a2a on-line)