Kirkland, Margaret b1874

Margaret grew up in Cruddas Terrace (5 Cruddas Terrace). She was a daughter of John Kirkland and Margaret Kirkland, and her birth was registered in Bellingham in the second quarter of 1874. Her home in 1881 was with her widowed mother and six siblings in Cruddas Terrace (5 Cruddas Terrace). Aged sixteen in 1891 she was employed as a telephonist and living in a household headed by her older brother George Kirkland, in Cruddas Terrace (5 Cruddas Terrace). In 1901 she was employed as a waitress and on census night was visiting her married sister Bella in Gateshead. The trail runs cold at this point although it is possible that she didn’t marry and is the Margaret Kirkland whose death, aged sixty-six was registered in Northumberland in 1939.