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Short, Sarah

2023-11-26T11:56:11Z

31.125.68.191: First biography for Sara Short

Sarah was the daughter of Joseph, a blacksmith and Sarah – she appears to have had a twin sister, Ann. She was born at Walwick and christened at Humshaugh on 25 July 1824. She had a son, James, who was christened in Humshaugh on 28 November 1847. In 1851 she was working as a dressmaker and living with her parents at Walwick, siblings and son James. When her brother, [[Short, John|John Short]], set up home in Walwick she and James moved in with him. When John lived in [[Cruddas Terrace]], Bellingham in 1871 and 1881 she acted as his housekeeper. The 1881 record is the last reference I have been able to find pursuing census, marriage and death records has proved unavailing. There is however a Sarah Jane Short whose death is recorded in South Shields in the fourth quarter of 1889 when it is likely her brother and nephew were working in Jarrow.

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Short, John

2023-11-26T11:45:04Z

31.125.68.191: Category Added

John Short was born at Walwick on 27 April 1822 and baptised in Humshaugh on 9 June 1822. His father Joseph was a blacksmith at Walwick in 1851, and employed one man. That man may well have been John who was listed as a blacksmith journeyman. Besides Joseph and John the other members of the household were Sarah (64), Ann (26), Sarah (26) who was a dressmaker, and Joseph’s grandchildren John (8) and James (3). Ten years later John was heading the household at Walwick North Farms and working as a blacksmith and grocer, He was single, as was his sister Sarah who was housekeeping for him. The couple were also caring for two nephews, John, a blacksmith’s apprentice and James, a scholar. By 1871 John and Sarah, nephew John and another nephew, Thomas (9) had moved into [[Cruddas Terrace]], Bellingham. The younger John was now a blacksmith but his uncle John was just a labourer. In 1881, again in Cruddas Terrace John aged 58 was a general labourer, Sarah was housekeeping and young John (38) was a blacksmith. In 1891 both John Shorts were unmarried and both working as blacksmiths, living together in 11, Charles Street, South Shields. John Short’s death was registered in South Shields in the first quarter of 1894 with his age given as 74.

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George Cruddas

2023-09-04T16:50:46Z

31.125.68.191: Created page with "George Cruddas (1788-1879) joined Sir W G Armstrong in establishing the Elswick Works in which he continued to be a partner up to his death. Until his health failed, he direct..."

George Cruddas (1788-1879) joined Sir W G Armstrong in establishing the Elswick Works in which he continued to be a partner up to his death. Until his health failed, he directed the financial affairs of the firm and it was in a great measure owing to the courage, vigour and sagacity which he brought to bear upon the commercial part of the business in its earliest days that ultimate success was secured.
Hexham Courant, April 12, 1879.<ref>Extract from the Hexham Courant Obituary of 1879</ref>