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My GGGrandparents were John Cain alias 'Whisky Jack' and Elizabeth Robson Simpson (nee Simpson) from Winlaton. I have hit a brick wall concerning their deaths. I know the Newcastle MP, Joseph Cowen , assisted John Cain to relocate to Melbourne around the mid - 1870s in order to support his rheumatism, but from thereupon I have no further knowledge, except that he died in Melbourne, never to return to the UK.

The last record I have for my GGGrandmother is that she was living with her daughter and son in law (Llewellyn Edmund Robinson) at 13, Mary Street, Winlaton, and is listed as Eliza Robson Simpson on the 1891 Census, despite the fact that I have no evidence she ever divorced from Henry Middleton. I have already engaged the services of professional genealogists to no avail, so any support or advice would be so gratefully received, thank you.

Please can you help? Whilst going through old artefacts belonging to my stepfather I came across this poem from WWI, called, "A Soldier's Poem." I do not know who wrote this or from what regiment he belonged to but Blyth is mentioned as well as soldiers from Cowpen Quay. Can anyone shed light on this please?
The poem begins, "Dear Tommy jus a line or two, to let you know that we've pulled through, and to our county we'll be true, the canny lads from Prudhoe. To Blyth we came as strangers, but friends we parted, and every lad was broken hearted, when on the boat to France we started, the canny lads from Prudhoe."
Later the poet mentions, "Fell Thomas Davison of Cowpen Quay, and also Robert Caisley, that you have had a line from me, one of the lads from Prudhoe.
Can anyone assist with any further information please?

If anyone knows of any living relatives of either of these men I would be glad to give them this poem
Many thanks
SBM, Weymouth