Well, Capt Readhead was a bankrupt. He was the son of Gabriel Readhead (died 1779), a well to do stock farmer of the Lee, near Rothbury and had been a captain in the Northumberland Militia. Robert was of Amble New Hall. The Newcastle Courant of Saturday, 7 March 1789, has a notice to creditors to meet at the White Swan in Alnwick, where there was to be a plan set out for discharging his debts. If the creditors couldn't get there then they could send an account of their demands to Thomas Readhead of the Lee (his brother?)
On that basis, he could be the same Readhead who had the salt pans. It's amazing how bankrupts resurrect themselves.
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