page_title: Charlton Hall, Northumberland
section_title: The Cay family
hierarchical_section_title: Charlton Hall, Northumberland / The Cay family
caption_attribution_description: English: Elizabeth Cay (nee Liddell) of Charlton Hall
context_page_description: Charlton Hall near Ellingham, Northumberland is a building of historical significance and is listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in the late 18th Century by the notable architect William Newton for the Cay family. It was the residence for several prominent people over the next three centuries and is now a luxury wedding venue.
context_section_description: Jabez Cay (1666-1703) bought the Charlton Estate in 1696. It then passed through the Cay family until 1782 when it was inherited by Robert Hodshon Cay (1758-1810) who commissioned William Newton to build the new hall.
  Robert was born in 1758. His father was John Cay (1727-1782) and his mother was Frances Hodshon, daughter of Ralph Hodshon of Lintz Hall, Durham. He was educated at Glasgow University and obtained a law degree. He later became Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland. 
  In 1789 shortly after he built Charlton Hall he married Elizabeth Liddell (1770-1831), daughter of John Liddell of North Shields. She was an accomplished artist and her work is still discussed today. The couple had nine children one being the mother of the famous physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
  When Robert died in 1810 his eldest son John Cay (1790-1865) inherited Charlton Hall. John was a lawyer, an antiquarian and a pioneer photographer. In 1819 he married Emily Bullock, the daughter of William Bullock of Jamaica. The couple had seven children. In 1849 he decided to sell Charlton Hall and he placed an advertisement in the newspaper which described the house in the following terms.
  "Charlton Hall is a pleasantly situated mansion house containing entrance hall, drawing room, dining room, breakfast room, library, housekeeper’s room, seven bed rooms, two water closets, kitchen, three servants bedrooms, cellars and other conveniences, a double coach house, four stalled stable and harness room".
caption: Elizabeth Cay (formerly Liddell)
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