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Durham / Re: killed in stockton?
« on: Thursday 12 October 17 16:35 BST (UK)  »
Hello Grogsy, yes, I do have a copy - hanging on my wall, actually! Harry was my granddad.
I actually met your great grandparents when I was a kid (in the 70s) and we had a brief holiday up in the north east, visiting a few of my mum's relatives.
That means one of your grandparents is my mum's cousin. Please let me know who that is - I will be seeing my mum (Mabel Brennan) tomorrow (she's 91) and she would love to know!

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Durham / Re: killed in stockton?
« on: Thursday 12 October 17 10:37 BST (UK)  »
Hello Grogsy, thanks for the reply
I have since figured out the mystery of Charles' death - but not his birth!
He WAS killed in a hit and run accident, but it was in Bradford, West Yorks, on 14th August 1917. He was working there as a fish fryer - the family had a chip shop or two at that time.
Family legend has it that he was killed in one of the first hit and runs by a motor vehicle recorded in this country, and that is borne out.
It was a shocking time for the family - coming just a few months after his son Charles was killed in the  rail accident to which you refer, at Carlton iron Works, and also around the time that another son Philip, lost an arm and a leg in the WW1 trenches. Philip survived and returned to Stillington, where he ran  a grocer's shop until his death in 1950. My mum remembers him weighing out the flour with a hook attachment on his false arm!

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