Nostalgic memories of Tarset Burn's local history

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My great great grandmother was Ann Swinburn born Hexham 1799/1800 died Stannersburn 18?? . She is thought to have been the daughter of Henry Swinburn of Stannersburn, a joiner. She married Matthew Chicken in Hexham Abbey in 1820. In the 1841 census she is listed as a beerhousekeeper. Does any one have any information about the Swinburn family.
My maternal grandfather was born in Stockton on Tees in 1892.  His father died, and his mother remarried resulting in him being farmed out to live with two maiden aunts who lived in "Tarset".  My brother and I have tried in vain to find exactly where this might have been (I now think that Tarset was in fact a parish).  His name was John (Jack) Robinson and the aunts' surname could have been Douglas.  He had an ...see more