McKie, Edward Patrick

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* Information provided by Rob Tindall 15/10/23

In his younger years known as Patrick but later as Edward P, he was born in Newcastle on 4 April 1870 and was the second son of Daniel. The family moved to Cruddas Terrace, Bellingham and Patrick went to school from there. At the age of twenty he was following his father’s trade of tinsmith. In 1894 he married Elizabeth Anne Brotherton who had been born in Gateshead but at the marriage her family were living in Hexham in Foundry Lane. Her father, James was a ropemaker and had been born in Nova Scotia. Elizabeth was the oldest of eight children and before her marriage was employed as a garden worker. Patrick had ceased to be a tinsmith and in 1901 was living in Gilesgate, Hexham and working as a labourer to a mason. Patrick and Elizabeth had seven children, the oldest, Susannah had been born in Bellingham and in 1911 was working as a gardener whilst the next in line, James Daniel was a grocer’s errand boy. The family were living at 33 Haugh Lane along which there used to be extensive commercial gardens. In 1921 the family had moved to 1 Circle Place, Hexham and two more sons - Ferol and Alfred had been born. Patrick was working as a builder’s labourer for the Blaydon based firm of W G Armstrong Builders at Wooley Sanatorium. In 1939 Patrick was a retired general labourer whilst Elizabeth’s occupation was ‘unpaid domestic duties’. Elizabeth A McKie died in the first quarter of 1948 aged 76 whist Patrick died, aged 85 in the third quarter of 1956.