Memorandum, by Henry Pease, 14 October 1851; copy, with annotations, made by Edward Lloyd Pease, 1911 Describes Quaker properties in Darlington as follows: E.P.’s house bought 1799 or 1800; previously in the occupation of Jane or James Robinson, diaper manufacturer; the garden had been a tan yard Ianson’s property was bought by James I’anson for the linen trade Clark, butcher?; T. Russell, linen manufacturer; W. Fothergill; Singleton, a Friend and linen manufacturer; Thomas Robson; Widow Church Late Hazlewood – built by Tober, a Friend; then E. Hall; then Nathan Robson; previously Jane Wheeler; D. Wheeler had led a servant, Brady, to believe she would be his wife; then W. Ord; T. Evans; the lower side was occupied by James I’anson, linen manufacturer Ann Coleman’s and house below, occupied by Gideon Philips, a linen manufacturer James Backhouse, a linen manufacturer, lived in Ann Coleman’s house until his marriage, when he lived in Skinnergate Row and Precincts, now Windalley: Barnett, Stephen Lincoln, manufacturers; Edward Backhouse settled on the north side of the entrance and William Backhouse on the south side. T. Parks, Thomas Robson on his marriage settled in it. Post Office: John Hedley; James Backhouse, grandfather of Jonathan Backhouse; Jonathan Backhouse his son settled in small house between Post Office and Joseph Pease’s Office (brother of Henry Pease) Next house was built by Joseph Pease, grandfather of Henry Pease; next house built by J. Clement, a timber manufacturer. Edward Pease does not remember any linen manufacturers in Darlington other than in Northgate. Edward Pease my great grandfather, settled in Priestgate. The house had a large garden in which a deer, a present from Lord Darlington, was kept. Afterwards built a house, c.1732, where Walker & Luck now are, next to Barclays Bank. After his death, in the possession of the Robsons. Walters shop with a backyard which stretched as far as Houndgate. Bought by Richard Richardson, from Whitby, Yorkshire; Lydia Richardson, mother-in-law of Joseph Pease who lived in the Grove House behind their? corner occupied by Thomas Pease, William Aldham. Robert R. lived in the house above where T.R. and other of the family were born – From: Quaker families of Darlington,Records of Darlington