Warwick, Walter
Walter Warwick and his family occupied 4 Percy Terrace in 1921. Walter was born in Langholm, Dumfriesshire on 16 February 1877. He was a member of a well-established family of workers in the woollen mills. At the 1881 Census father, John, was a Pattern Weaver (woollen), and brother, William (15), was a mill worker. In 1891, father, John, was a woollen weaver, his brother, John (aged 16), was a woollen winder whilst Walter himself, aged 14 was a woollen piecer. It is probable that his mother, Martha Ann (nee Brown), had also been involved in the trade as she was also from the Borders. William obviously had other ideas and in 1901 can be found lodging with Margaret Bryce at 39 Easter Street, Duns and practising as a tailor as a cutting from the Berwickshire News of April 15, 1902, shows. He married Catherine Jane Whitton Ross in Hawick or Langholm on 30 August 1902. In 1911 he was in Brookside Place, Bellingham with Catherine and their sons, John Warwick aged six who had been born in Langholm and William Ross Warwick (5, born in Duns) Walter was described as a tailor and cutter. They had a bachelor boarder, John Rose who was a tailor (maker) aged twenty-six who was from Langholm. In 1921 Walter was living in 4 Percy Terrace and working as a tailor cutter for Richard Pigg who was a draper in Manchester Square. John was now seventeen and an apprentice signal fitter for the North British Railway at Reedsmouth. The family was completed by Catherine Warwick, now thirty-eight and sons Willie R Warwick (15), Fred Ross Warwick (5) and Walter James Warwick (8½ months). Walter was still working in 1939 and is described as a master tailor living with Catherine in [4 Russell Terrace]], Bellingham. A probate record states, “Walter Warwick of Russell Terrace, Bellingham died 4 March 1951 at 86, St. Thomas Terrace, Blaydon. Administration 25 June 1951 to Walter Ross Warwick, police sergeant. Effects £435 6s 4d.”
