« Reply #7 on: Friday 18 August 17 18:08 BST (UK) »
I found Mother's maiden name through a GRO search by the way. I wonder if the William in the article may turn out to be your ancestor? When I get time in a few weeks I will check the Whitley Seaside Chronicle & Visitors' Gazette for you regarding this story. This newspąper is not on-line yet.
In my own experience I have sometimes found that newspapers of that time would only give a report of what happened but not the whys and wherefores - the story behind the story. However, with enough digging sometimes it can be possible to get to the bottom of things. My own Great Grandfather was reported in the Shields Daily News as having stabbed a named man in North Shields. With a lot of digging, workhouse hospital records and lots more delving I eventually discovered that the stabbed man was his niece's husband and the latter had a long history as a wife beater and a bit of a trouble maker. Although, I would not condone my ancestor stabbing someone I did get the impression that my Great Grandfather must have got to the end of his tether to do what he did. The man in question did not die. His poor longsuffering wife separated from him for a short period but then appears to have returned to him and stayed with until death. They had children and society did not provide support for battered women then.😕 I hope you get to uncover the story behind the story in your own research.
By the way, the 'Whitley Seaside Chronicle & Visitors' Gazette' is a great newspaper for anyone with local seaside based ancestors in the Great War. There are good photographs and reports and sometimes the paper printed letters which were sent home from the front.
Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner
