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| St Mary’s or Bait Island | St Marys Island | Estate Plan | 10 chains N E | A small island surrounded by | ||
| St Marys Island | Greenwood’s Co Map | of Currys Point | very bold & rugged rocks mention | |||
| St Marys Island | Hutchinson’s History Vol 2 p334 | is made by all the historians of Northumber- | ||||
| St Marys Island | Churchley’s Co map | land of a Monastery & hermitage that | ||||
| St Marys Island | Richardsons Map | once stood on this little island: but they | ||||
| St Marys Island | Hugh Taylor Esqr | have been for many ages desolated & not the | ||||
| St Marys Island | John Porteus Esqr | smallest remains now exist. It is thought by the old | ||||
| St Marys Island | Revd Mr Greenwood | residents that the sea encroached & laid bare | ||||
| Bates’ Island | Mackenzie’s History of Northumberland | "The name Bates is taken from the | the rocks upon which they stood. A short | |||
| Bates’ Island | Whellan’s Directory P447 | "circumstance of the fishermen procuring | time ago some fishermen when sinking for | |||
| Bates’ Island | White’s Directory | "their bait here, but it is always | the foundation of the small house which now | |||
| St Marys or Bates I. | County Map | "spoken of as Bates" Examiners remarks | Stands upon the island found many Skeletons | |||
| St Marys or Bait Island | Mr Dobson, Architect. Newcastle | which leaves little doubt but that formed part | ||||
| of the burial ground. It is the property | ||||||
| of Lord Hastings. | ||||||
| "On Bates’ Island nearly opposite to | ||||||
| "Hartley, was formerly a small chapel | ||||||
| "to St Mary and a hermitage" | ||||||
| Whites Directory | ||||||
| Vol II P.408 | ||||||
| "On Bates Island was formerly a small chapel dedicated to | ||||||
| "St Mary, and a hermitage, both desolated" | ||||||
| MacKenzie’s History | ||||||
| Thomas Jordan | ||||||
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