NZ2902 : Pepper Arden Estate Farm, near North Cowton
The PEPPER family owned lands and leases in South Cowton, Cleasby and other nearby places in the early 1600s. A Robert PEPPER of Cleasby made his will 1622. It was his great-great-granddaughter Sarah PEPPER who became the wife of John ARDEN of Stockport (the ancestor of the Lords Alvaney).....This information from a Surtees Society publication.