Hutchinson, Mabel Emma

Mabel Emma Hutchinson (then Harrison nee Philipson) lived at 6 Cruddas Terrace, Bellingham in 1911. She was the daughter of Thomas Philipson, the landlord of the Rose and Crown in Bellingham and his wife Mary. On 11 February 1872 she was baptised in Bellingham She was a scholar in 1881 and although she isn’t given an occupation in the 1891 record it can be safely assumed that she was helping to run the pub since her father and mother respectively were eighty and fifty-four at the time. Her husband was Bellingham born Robert James Hutchinson (baptised 12 November 1876), a bootmaker who was the son of a bootmaker, The marriage took place in Bellingham in 1899. They moved out of Bellingham soon after they married as their first child, Thomas W was two months old at the 1901 Census and had been born in Newcastle. At this stage Robert was following his trade as a boot and shoe maker and living at 20 Cookson Street, Arthur’s Hill Newcastle. Robert died at 16, Brentwood Avenue, West Jesmond on 17 February 1910 with Mabel granted administration of an estate worth £243 11s 1d. Mabel had three young children to look after (Mabel aged 7 in 1911, Mary 5 and Emma 8 months) The youngest had been born in Iveston Co. Durham. Thomas, her first born had apparently succumbed to a childhood illness. Mabel was supporting herself as a confectioner. In very few months another man entered Mabel’s life in the form of Thomas Andrew Harrison. Thomas had had a varied career, firstly as a tailor, then a coalminer and when he married Mabel in Newcastle at the end of 1911 was an insurance agent. He had been a widower since the second quarter of 1911 and in the census of that year was living with three children and two lodgers at 10 West View, Chester-le-Street. He was older than Mabel having been born in Morpeth on 8 February 1858 as against Mabel on 29 November 1871. Their home in 1921 was 153 Front Street, Chester-le-Street when Thomas, as an insurance agent was working for the Scottish Legal Society. Mabel was engaged in house duties whilst her daughters, Mabel and Mary were both working in Horners’ factory (Confectioners) In 1939 Mabel and Thomas Harrison were in Victoria Place, Chester-le-Street and living with them was Mary Fawcett (nee Hutchinson) who was following her mother’s trade by being a supervisor in a confectionery business. Thomas died in the fourth quarter of 1940 whilst Mabel followed him in the first quarter of 1944.