Young, Elizabeth (nee Robson)

Elizabeth was the youngest daughter of Mary Jane Robson and Thomas Robson, being born at Kirkharle on 14 August 1902. Her father died in 1905 before Elizabeth had reached her third birthday. Her mother moved to 2 Percy Terrace and earned some money as a boarding-house keeper. In 1911 Elizabeth was her mother’s only relative in residence. Elizabeth entered domestic service and was employed by George Ridley Milburn, a joiner and Confectioner, and his wife, Evelyn Mary at 2 St. Cuthberts Terrace, Bellingham. In the third quarter of 1937 she married John A Young a joiner journeyman who was some fifteen years younger than herself. In 1939 Thomas and Elizabeth had moved in with her mother, Mary Jane Robson in 1 Percy Terrace. Elizabeth died in the first quarter of 1980.

There is little detail on Thomas Alexander Young and I am reluctant to construct a biographer as it is all so recent. It appears that he remarried a woman called Famelton in 1981 and died in 1992 in St Cuthberts Terrace.