NT8613 : Murder CleughAccording to the Northumberland Quarter Sessions Indictments 1584-1846 at the Northumberland Record Office
LinkQSI/1, f130v (600) 20 July 1611
Robert Lumsden f. of Horsholes, yeoman and 'Scotchman'; at Oswayford, murdered Isabella Sudden, wife of Andrew Sudden, f. of Halliston, with stones, giving her a fatal wound on her stomach so that she languished from 20 July until 4 August next when she died.
Horse Holes is said to be in the vicinity of Milkhope
NT9211 : Milkhope deep in the Kidland Forest. Halliston is an old name for Holystone
NT9502The memorial stone was created by a local resident interested to see that the area's history is not forgotten.