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Thank you so much to everyone on here for your help.  Special thanks to River Tyne Lass for the answer to our puzzle, hopefully we can now follow Stephen Chambers shipwright and get some more information.

Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to see tynemouth marriage banns online and if so where.  My mothers great grandfather was William Chambers but we have no further information for him.  We have a marriage record for his daughter Elizabeth (my mothers grandmothers)marriage but it doesn’t state the occupation of her father William. If we had her fathers occupation we may be able to trace him with that.   Would the marriage banns have that information.
Elizabeth chambers was married in Tynemouth to William Lumley on 9th April 1846. thomas Lumley also appears on the marriage certificate but we are not sure how he is related to Elizabeth.  We have no accurate DOB for Elizabeth it varies between 1817 and 1821. 

Yes, I’m sorry, I could have given you more information.  Williams wife was Mary Ann Patterson and their children included James W Patterson whose age on the 1901 census is 5 which would put his DOB as 1896.  This all ties in nicely. Thank you so much.

Thank you all for your replies.  I am a bit confused because he is on the grave registers and the purchaser was the Imperial War graves Commision so I assumed he must have been one of the war dead but he is not on the War Memorial in Ryhope.   According to the graves registration report he died on 27th December 1917, I have read what I can about the Durham Light Infantry 14th division and it appears the battle of Cambrai finished around the first week in December I am therefore thinking he may have been injured before the end of the battle and maybe died later.  Would he still be on some memorial to the dead?
Williams Patterson was around 45 when he died so that would put him at about birth date 1872 + or - a couple of years and his service number was 14146 he had a son who is buried with him called James William Patterson who died on 17th October 1920.

You aren’t alone in being confused!! we have been confused since we started looking for my grandmother Annie Chambers Lumley.  We don’t even have a good birth record for her, all we know is she married Anthony Summers and the fathers part is blank, we therefore assumed she was illegitimate.  She doesn’t appear on any census until she is married in 1890.  She appears on 1891 census with Anthony summers husband and Thomas Lumley who we know is her brother.  The only reason we think she is Elizabeth Chambers granddaughter is because both she and her brother Thomas use the middle name Chambers. The only good birth certificate for Annie Lumley I sent for and the address for the mother Margaret I cross checked with the census and the name is Margaret Lundy!!!!! I asked the record office to recheck the name and they confirmed the certificate states Margaret Lumley.  Makes no sense to me.