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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Gateshead Fell 1800's, 1900s. Can I help anyone?
« on: Monday 06 April 09 13:03 BST (UK) »
Hi Gary
Thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunatley I don't think this is one of my Waters family. The only Thomas I can find married to Isabella was born in Cumberland.
I think that my Joseph left Gateshead Fell probably around the time of the 1810 miners strike but returned with his bride and brought up his family there but left again possibly at the time of the 1831 strike. By the 1841 census they were living in Dewley.
The rest of Joseph's family [I assume he had brothers and sisters] possibly stayed around the 'Fell' area but I can only find a Thomas Waters in Wrekenton born about the same time as Joseph. James Waters and Margaret Spence may have been his parents but I have no solid evidence of this.
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack...I had no idea there were so many 'Waters' around!
Best regards
Jess
Thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunatley I don't think this is one of my Waters family. The only Thomas I can find married to Isabella was born in Cumberland.
I think that my Joseph left Gateshead Fell probably around the time of the 1810 miners strike but returned with his bride and brought up his family there but left again possibly at the time of the 1831 strike. By the 1841 census they were living in Dewley.
The rest of Joseph's family [I assume he had brothers and sisters] possibly stayed around the 'Fell' area but I can only find a Thomas Waters in Wrekenton born about the same time as Joseph. James Waters and Margaret Spence may have been his parents but I have no solid evidence of this.
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack...I had no idea there were so many 'Waters' around!
Best regards
Jess