Hi there,

funnily enough I did a short history piece at primary school (Bamburgh CofE) about Bebbanburg and how it was named and culminating in the work of Dr Sharpe and his wife Dorothy Forster.  My family has been in Bamburgh for many hundreds of years and distantly includes the Forsters and Ogles. I am almost certainly descended from Danes as well.  Managed to go back as far as Waltheof, although lines are a bit sketchy that far back. Love the Last Kingdom and I have to say that throughout history my family seems to return to Bamburgh at various points in history.

Susan Walby