At the time there were a family of Balloonists from London, Charles Green, who flew from London to Weilburg, Duchy of Nassau (Germany) in 1836 and by the time he retired in 1852, he had flown in a balloon more than 500 times.
The ascents were recorded in short comments in both Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings of 1891[REF][REF] (on page 222) and France's Songs of the Bards of the Tyne - 1850[REF] (on page c331).