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Thank you all.

I'm a little confused, Cas - do you mean there were Pattersons still living at 11 Double Row in 1939 (from the Census referred to by Chempat?).  I understood Double Row to be miners cottages/houses connected with the colliery, and would have assumed the family would have vacated the dwelling when the father was killed.

Thought the census was restricted for 100 years.

Brian

I am trying to trace any descendants of Thomas John and Eleanor Patterson who lived at 11 Double Row, Cowpen at the time of the 1911 census.  Thomas John, a miner at Cowpen Colliery, was killed fighting with the Northumberland Fusiliers on 1 July 1916, leaving his wife to raise their nine children alone.  Eleanor died in 1957, aged 80, and is buried in the same grave as her youngest daughter, Hannah, in Cowpen Cemetery.

From the 1911 census the children were
Sarah Annie Patterson b 1897
Eleanor Patterson b  1899
Edward Patterson b 1900
Oswald  Patterson b 1902
Robert Henry Patterson b 1905
John Thomas Patterson b 1907: known to be alive in 1957
Sidney Patterson b 1909
Andrew Patterson b 1911
Plus
Hannah Patterson b 24/06/1913 d 2/04/1942: buried in Cowpen Cemetery.

Hannah is my real interest.  She was educated at Blyth Secondary (later Grammar) School circa (1926-1932) but disappears from my radar until she receives an immediate commission on joining the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in September 1941.  When she died of meningitis the following April her estate amounted to over £400 (equivalent about £15000-18000 today), not bad for a lass with her beginnings. 

Unfortunately Patterson is a common name, and other than Hannah and her parents I've not enjoyed any success in tracing the lives of her siblings.

My hope is that if I can find a descendent it may be possible to fill the gap in her life between leaving school and joining the WAAF, and also find a photograph.

The information would be used in a Book of Remembrance I am compiling of meteorologists who died during the two wars.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Brian

Thank you, Christine.  I suspect, given the number of people living in the house, it would have been the one down, two up version.

My main interest is in the youngest child, Hannah.  I know she was educated at Blyth Secondary (later Grammar) School circa 1926-1932, but after that she disappears from the radar until receiving an immediate commission on joining the WAAF in September 1941.  When she died of meningitis the following April her estate amounted to over £400 (equivalent to £15000-18000 today), not bad for a lass with her beginnings.  I'd love to know what she did after leaving school.

Brian