Sisterton, Margaret

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Margaret Sisterton (nee Hedley) was the wife of James Sisterson and was living at 3 Cruddas Terrace Bellingham in 1911. Margaret was the daughter of Thomas, a labourer and Margaret. She was born in 1866 and baptised in Bellingham on 11 November 1866. She was living with her parents when she was aged five at the 1871 Census. By the age of fourteen she had left home and was working as a nurse in Rochester, Northumberland. The head of the household was Robert Leighton, a tailor and draper. Robert was a widower but living with him was his son Robert also a tailor, and his wife and three young children. (N.B. In this census she appears as Meggie Hedley) In 1891 she was employed as a cook, general servant in West Grange, Hartburn. She was working for Thomas, a land agent and magistrate, and Jane Gaw. She married James Sisterson in Newcastle in 1892. She subsequently had at least eight children but only five survived childhood. Three of her children – Isabella (24), Agnes Annie (18) and Elizabeth (16) – were still living with their parents when the family were at Carrs Mile Cottage, Whitfield. Margaret was also catering for two boarders – a sawyer and a house painter. Her death was recorded in Hexham in the third quarter of 1829.