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Thomas Dickson Scott and his wife (Mary Scott) and three small children – James Scott (5y 10m), Douglas Scott (3), and Thomas Scott (1y 5m) – occupied [[2 Percy Terrace]], Bellingham in 1921. There is some doubt as to who Thomas’s parents were as he seems to have been raised by his grandparents – although it is probable that they were Francis and Agnes (nee Fox). He was born in Falstone on 31 January 1891 and entered Falstone School on 19 June 1899 where his address is given as Cranescleugh. In 1901 his grandfather John Scott was a shepherd at Cranescleugh and his wife, Jessie Scott were hosting children Francis Scott (32), a shepherd, Beatrice Anderson, a married daughter, Jessie (13) and John (11). There were also three grandchildren – Thomas D (11), Johanna (3) and Jessie Anderson. On census night a sixty-nine-year-old Irish hawker was also resident. Thomas was still living with his grandparents in 1911 although John was now shepherding at Low Longhouse Plashetts. Thomas was working as a coal hewer presumably in Plashetts Colliery. In the 2nd quarter of 1914 Thomas married Mary C Hall and with Thomas now a coal hewer for Thomas Hall in Shitlington Colliery they were established with their three children in [[2 Percy Terrace]] by 1921. In the 1939 Register Thomas and Mary were living at 1 High Street, Bellingham with Thomas still hewing coal. Douglas had followed his father by becoming a colliery hewer while Thomas jnr. was with the 8th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. In their High Street home, they also accommodated Harriet (Hettie) Brown, an infant mistress in an elementary school. Thomas apparently died in the first quarter of 1957.

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