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Hi Lynn

I expect you are aware of the Pease/Davidson Family Tree on Ancestry.  It has a lot of presumably very authentic information.

However it does not mention Charles Stanley Steavenson's previous marriage to Lena Nicholson, in Q3 1908, at Sunderland.

Lena died in Q2 1911 and CSS then married Enid Lucy Pease Robinson, in Q4 1911.

The Sanders Family Tree, on the other hand, currently has CSS's first marriage recorded incorrectly (to Elizabeth Ann Trotter) and does not mention the second (to Enid Lucy Pease Robinson).

But it has a great deal about the Steavenson family, which you may find interesting.

I have just posted messages to both tree owners, to point this out.

1841 census
HO107/313/ Book14/ Folio 57/ Page 29
Nile Street, Thornley

John Wallace, 40, banksman at coal mine, Y

Can anyone make out the second word of George's occupation?

Looks like "Banksman at Coal Mine" to me.

Mike

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Whoops.  Sorry.  Didn't know.

Though I've often dipped into RootsChat before, I was only recently prompted to browse more deeply, by some one who helped me with some information on another site.  I've been really impressed at how helpful RootsChatters are to each other...  and was just trying to be likewise.

Mike

Hi Kerry (and others)

I'm trying to work through the 1911 Census of Bowburn - its first since the pit began to be sunk in 1906 - with a view to getting a picture of where the first families in this colliery village came from, to what extent they knew or were related to each other before they came, whether there are any patterns in terms of the mining companies that the miners themselves had previously worked for, etc.

Of the 17 surnames you listed back in October 2007, no less than six figured here in that Census (accounting for many more than six households) and I am aware of at least another seven arriving after that date.  I'd be surprised if none of the people in your tree were either among this first Bowburn generation or closely related to them!

I'd be happy to share information from what I've gathered so far, if anyone is interested. But I'd also, of course, be interested to hear from you or other RootsChatters who may think they've got Bowburn links.

Thanks

Mike

How common were Braziers / Tinplate workers?

I have information about the family of William Stewart, aged 32, 42 & 50 in the 1861 Censuses, when he was described as Brazier, Tin Plate Worker and Tinsmith, respectively. He was living in all those years at Littletown, Durham, with his wife, Jane, and children. He was born at Tantoby [Tantobie] / Collierley Dykes [Dikes] - which is near Tantobie.

Could he be the William who, aged 12, was listed as the son of the Tinner, William Stuart, and his wife Martha, who were living at Easington Lane in 1841?

(I haven't found him in 1851, though there was a William Stewart (27, born Scotland [sic]), visiting the household of Anne Ashton (widow, 43, born Newcastle upon Tyne, Dressmaker), at Oakwellgate, Gateshead). He was described as Tinsmith.)

This William's son Henry was one of the first blacksmiths at Bowburn Colliery, Durham, (which began to be sunk in 1906).

Mike