Armstrong, Thomas

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* Information provided by Rob Tindall 25/10/23

At the 1861 Census Thomas, the son of George and Margaret was two months old and living in the family home of Upper Hall, Bellingham, he had been born on 19 January and his birth was registered in the first quarter of the same year. His childhood was spent in Hutchinson Street, Bellingham but he cannot be traced in the 1881 Census. In the first quarter of 1886 he married Mary Ann Ridley who was the daughter of John, a general labourer living at Walwick, Warden, Northumberland. In 1891 Thomas and his family – Mary Ann, George (3), John Ridley (2) and Robert (7 months) – were living at 8, Noble Street, Bellingham. Thomas was working as a general labourer. By 1901 the family had moved to Armstrong Square, Bellingham with Thomas calling himself as a quarry stone contractor. In 1911 his job was ‘general labourer’ once more. He and Mary Ann had been married twenty-four years and the union had produced ten children only one of whom had died. The family ranged in age from George, an assistant grocer and Robert a general labourer to one year old Thomas Henry. In the 1939 Register he is described as a general labourer, retired and he was still living in Armstrong Square. Thomas died in the fourth quarter of 1940.