MAUD ELIZABETH WHITFIELD, 1918 - 1937 DARLINGTON, AND DISTRICTS, CO. DURHAM

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Brother Thomas Albert Whitfield born 13 November 1892 died 18 July 1950 age 57  of 25 St John's Road.
Probate to Harry Whitfield  -(I believe this is his nephew living with him and Annie 1939)

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The Maud Elizabeth McCallan who died 1989  reg Nottingham has a DOB of 15 July 1900.
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Your Maude Elizabeth was born 1906.  -- CORRECTED
Ref birth registration

[Doreen Peacock]

Sorry I don't know who owned the tree with the wrong information on; but the children and grandchildren were missing off. 

The photograph at the top of the Tree, shows Maud Elizabeth McCallan with daughter - which was why I was drawn to it in the first place.   There was only one copy of this picture I believe and the branch of the family it would have gone to have died out who would have posted it....but they would have known where and when she died, so it was a mystery as to why it was allowed to stay posted as being correct in the details published.

Thank you for highlighting it from your point of view and analysis. it is very much appreciated.

[Doreen Peacock]

Many, many thanks to you SUPERSTARS. You've answered at lot of questions in super quick time.  Communications and clarifications were not at the top of the family's list whilst growing up in the 40's and 50's. "Children should be seen and not heard2 "Don't ask questions., just do as you are told!" I think they must have thought we never overheard bits of information and kept them locked in the storage files of our minds over the years. The truth was there...but wrapped up in fabrics of lies and misinformation.

It has taken the brain power of you good folk to unravel the final pieces of this part of my Jigsaw.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.

It's helped make my life so much more relevent and interesting for my branch of the tree that I was grafted onto; and from where I came from.   Keep on digging into our pasts, so we can make sense of life, it's meaning and the people we meet on our journey through life.

You are doing a Grand Job. May your God, bless you all and keep you safe.

[Doreen Peacock]

Clarification of Mary Jane Whitfield (nee Peel) Children

The nephew, Harry Whitfield, living in St. John's Road, Shildon is the son of Thomas Whitfield. His mother, (Tom's wife), died shortly after Harry was born.

John (Jack) Whitfield (had not married at this time) he married a divorcee (another Maud,) later in life - she had a young son. They all lived in Shildon until they died - he is a brother to Thomas,
and Annie was single (her fiancee died in the WW1) were all living at the same address with their mother/Grandmother Mary Jane Whitfield, at St. John's Road, Shildon.

The three Males and Annie Whitfield were the Sons, Daughter and Nephew to Mary Jane Whitfield, who died in January, 1931 after a fishborne/choking incident, in 1939 as reported in Newcastle Chronicle.

There were other children of Mary Jane Whitfield: -

Herbert Alfred (Alf); Thomas (Tom), John (Jack) Samuel, Florence, Theresa, Hilda and Maud - making eight. Florence and Annie were unmarried. Florence died of cancer in Wakefield 1924 and Annie died in Sedgefield District Co. Durham in 1968.

Maud had three children to Patrick McCallan - JOSEPH VINCENT 1938; JOHN PATRICK, AND KATHLEEN FLORENCE (TWIN TO JOHN) 1941. KATHLEEN DIED AT 11 WEEKS OLD IN OCTOBER 1941. BURIED IN AN UNMARKED, COMMUNAL GRAVE IN NORTH ORMESBY, MIDDLESBROUGH.

Maud is buried in Thorntree, Cemetery, Middlesbrough under the name of HUNT (her second marriage) but in the same grave as her first husband - Patrick McCallan.

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Mary Jane Whitfield died 1939 not 1931 needs to be updated as you now have proof of her death.