Dent, Valentine
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Valentine Dent (nee McKie) is first recorded in 3 Cruddas Terrace, Bellingham when she was a five-year-old girl, in 1921, living with her parents, Thomas and Martha and older siblings at number 3. She had been born in Bellingham on 14 February 1916. In 1939 she was still single at 3 Cruddas Terrace in a household headed by her widower father, Thomas. Her job is listed as ‘house duties’. She married James Philip Dent in 1940. James was born on 17 October 1915 and was a mechanic improver at a garage and a bus conductor living at Black Heatherwick, Otterburn. James died in the third quarter 1993 whilst Valentine died a few weeks later in the fourth quarter of the same year.