Jarret, Thomas

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Thomas Jarret was boarding in Mary Jane Robson’s boarding house at 2 Percy Terrace in 1911. He was born in Hawick in 1879 or 1880. Nothing is known of his parentage or early years but in 1901 he was an engine stoker for NBR. He was boarding with a number of other NBR employees in Martha A Dack’s lodging house at 38 Bailey Street, Arthurs Hill, Newcastle. He qualified as a passenger train driver and was involved in a tragic accident in October 1905. As the driver of the 6.15 am train from Newcastle to Bellingham he was approaching Stella Haughs when John Calder walked in front of his train, committing suicide. In 1920 he married Isabella Hannah who was the widow of Robert William Hannah, a Newcastle accountant who had died on 17 December 1918 leaving her £390 12s 1d. In 1921 the Jarrets were living in Reedsmouth where Thomas is described as a locomotive foreman.