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The building was reputed to be haunted by a child walking along the corridors. Folklore has it that Lord
Surtees had his mentally ill child chained to the fireplace whose cries of anguish can still be heard. It also tells the story of the peer's affair with his scullery maid, who committed suicide by
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Redworth Hall was inherited by
Crosier’s eldest son Robert Surtees (1782-1857). In 1811 he married Elizabeth Cookson (1783-1847) and the couple had four children, three sons and a daughter. Their eldest son Robert Lambton Surtees (1812-1863) inherited the house in 1857 but he died six years later in
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Dorothy and Jane. In 1769 Jane married her cousin Lieutenant Crosier Surtees (1740-1803). When her father Robert died in 1785 Redworth Hall was left to Crosier. However Crosier was a drunkard and womaniser and in about 1800 Jane left him. He moved into the house of his
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Surtees (1694-1785) was the owner of Redworth Hall for forty years. In 1744 he married Dorothy Lambton, second daughter of Thomas Lambton of Hardwick. In the same year as his marriage Robert made substantial alterations and additions to the Hall and added a rear wing.
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Balliol Surtees (1873-1955). In 1898 he married Helen Winifred Muriel Thomson only child of John James Thomson of Camphill, County
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Crosier (1671-1710) who married Edward Surtees (1663-1744) brought Redworth Hall into the Surtees family.
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