Ethel Mitchell

[Karytay]

The Mitchell were well to do family, and it looks like Jesmond Towers also has something to do with the family.

[Tickettyboo]

Charles Mitchell did indeed own Jesmond Towers (his sister in law was The Pink Lady -  the ghost, who the big girls used to scare us littlies about when the Towers was a school)

If your Ethel is linked to those Mitchells then you 'may' be looking at the wrong people? Nice though some of the houses in Gateshead were, when Charles Mitchell died in 1895 his estate amounted to £356,095 11s 8d - which was a long way above being well off :-)

The Towers was then passed to his son Charles William Mitchell after his mother died. Charles William died in 1903 and he left £922,542 4s 10d .
and 'that' is seriously rich!


Boo

[Karytay]

Well I have not found a link to Charles Mitchell, he was the shipbuilder. I see Ethel's grandfather's occupation in the 1911 census was Marine Engineer. So he worked on the docks, their might be a link some where.