« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 08 January 19 08:54 GMT (UK) »
Hi Bob
That's interesting that George was a miner, and yet the death notice records him as a shoe repairer. I wonder if he might have taken over the management of the business after Ernest's death, perhaps with young Dennis carrying out the actual repairs.
Perhaps if there might be a Roots Chatter out there who might be able to locate some local directories of that time covering Morpeth, it might be possible to find out more. The 'Ward's Directory ' is a good one. Perhaps these directories might record who was down as the proprietor before and after George's death. I do think it would be worth trying to locate these. Who knows .. it might turn out that young Dennis may have become the proprietor after George died. I wonder also if there might be an entry for George at his home address and if an occupation might be recorded after his name.
I wonder if these Ward's directories which might cover Newgate Street, might be at a local library in the Morpeth area or at the Northumberland Archives?
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