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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Durham => England => Durham Lookup Requests => Topic started by: Twincam on Monday 23 April 12 20:02 BST (UK)
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Family story...
"John William Pugh (My Wife's Grandad - known as Jack) born 1904 came down to London on the Jarrow March, married Elsie Reddecliffe, and stayed."
We're trying to discover if that's all completely true.
Fact: John Pugh worked at one of the shipyards that closed - we have his apprenticeship documents - but the marriage is in Jul-Sep 1935. The Jarrow march was in October 1936, but apparently there were many previous marches. Now it's entirely possible he was on one of the earlier marches organised by the communist party, but are there any lists of names? He isn't on the list of 200 names of "the" march.
Anyone out there who can help with possible sources?
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Twincam states:
' He (John William Pugh) isn't on the list of 200 names of "the" march.
Please could anybody direct me to a link that names the principal marchers?
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Google is very helpful
http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.jarrow/2/mb.ashx
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/studentforum/index.php?showtopic=669
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List of names here http://www.jarrowlife.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-27423.html
Stan
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Thanks very much to all concerned for your brilliant answers to my post.
Elias Marsh is not named on the list of the marchers that arrived at Parliament.
I must say that this does not particularly surprise me. As far as I can make out Elias' son the late Ramsey Marsh, who apparently spread this tale about, was said to be at best a fantastic story teller and at worst a liar.
Which of course does not disprove that Elias took part in any of the marches which apparently took place amongst other groups.
Upon reading through the links provided there are some street names in the addresses of the marchers the that ring bells, in my consciousness so to speak, as two of them are streets where members of the Marsh family used to live. Only these addresses were not in Jarrow. I would like to ask if anybody knows whether or not the addresses show in the link were in Jarrow or elsewhere in the region?
James Allison - 26 Stanley Street Back
Thomas Downey - 46 Stanley Street
Thomas Convery - 31 Stanley Street
Also, Elias probably had other members of his family or friends that were living in Chester le Street and his association with the place helped in the twisting of the facts to help his cause or raison d'etre, which like many of those who were unfortunate enough to be in the region at the time, was survival.
Furthermore, on the same tack, Elias' (1895-1960) wife Lily (married circa 1920) was a Brown and it is possible that the Brown's mentioned vis; Martin Brown - 3 South Street , John Brown - 72 Ferry Street , S. Brown - 14 Blenkinsop Grove were related to here and somehow the story has become sufficiently twisted through the years to become that which was told to me.
It could also be that Elias was involved with the other marches alluded to in the links.
Is anybody aware of any specific links to these?
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There were Stanley Streets in Jarrow, South Shields, Gateshead, Sunderland, Stockton, and Houghton le Spring. The people in the march were from Jarrow, so I assume were from the Stanley Street in Jarrow.
Stan