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ok, thats fine, i tend to go and search the records a couple of times a month, when i have a few hours to spare, funnily enough my freind lives behind st hildas church, i like these scavenger hunts what a good idea. sue

have just come across your post, trimdon street was a very small st on the corner of a busy junction on middleton road , which led to the docks and the swing bridge, it was there on the 1896 ordnance survey map, when the houses were demolished as you said it was in the early 1970s, and my family moved into the new houses they built on the site in 1974, there was at that time a laundry on the corner, which my mother used for years before we moved in to the area, they collected your washing and then delivered it back all done. If you go onto amazon or play.com they may have some books by a guy called george colley he wrote lots of books about hartlepools past all in photos, they are a marvelous insight in hartlepools history, i was looking at one yesterday in the library, i found photo of a street i was looking for in one of them , so well worth a look. sue

just come across your post i pass stranton church most days can have a pop in the church yard and have a look for your thomas smith, if i can get in as the church is getting a lot of work done on it and the builders are all over the place at the moment.sue

ok the webbs in 1911 as follows:
george webb has died in 1907
1911 census return
17 mozart street hartlepool
jane webb widow age 55 housekeeper
william george webb age 23 single
florence webb age 20 servant
samuel webb age 17 single
ellendeane webb age 10.
on the 1901 census i was unable to find the webbs although i knew they were living in wood st hartlepool as i had got ellendeanes birth certificate and she was born in january 1901 in 24 wood st , so i checked the census for that street and found them living with another family same address 24 wood st, henry scott as head but the kids are all mixed up as scotts and wright , but having said that im sure its them as when ellendeane was baptised they are living in 24 wood street as the webbs, so im assuming that they lodged with that family for a while and then moved. i could be wrong of course and would welcome your view as to whether it is the correct family or not. i dont have the 1911 census , so i had a freind do the look up for me but its correct as far as i know and samuel webb was my husbands granfather and he was married from 17 mozart street in 1916 and  the girl he married lived in 41 wood street  half of hubbys family lived lived in wood street, maternal and paternal.
sorry if i didnt make myself clearer;.will have another look for a mathers marriage near to where the first child of jane was born see if anything turns up sue.

from her daughters birth certificate and baptism records, both state matthews as her maiden name, ive got the certificate and seen the parish records, but you never know