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Re: GRANGER family of Monkswearmouth
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 08 May 21 17:55 BST (UK) »
I seem to remember seeing an Elizabeth Fairclough Granger birth in the Sunderland area. There may have been more than six children. I will check deaths as well, because that saves hours of looking for marriages and other info. Findagrave.com can be useful, too.

I spotted Henry Granger on the 1881 Durham census and thought 'What is one of mine doing there ?" I wouldn't have been surprised if I had discovered the branch in Hull or Grimsby as my great grandfather worked on steamers on the routes to King's Lynn and several Grangers had wives from fishing families too. My grandfather was a fisherman before he got married.

But tinship hole driller was a weird occupation for someone from a family of blacksmith-publicans. I wonder whether he set out to make some money and emigrate. There he was on the census at 44 and dead at 55. I want to find out how toxic shipbuilding was. Wondering whether he was in the workhouse with asbestosis.


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Re: GRANGER family of Monkswearmouth
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 08 May 21 17:58 BST (UK) »
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They were living at 7 Zetland Street, Monkswearmouth Shore, Durham. Henry's occupation is listed as a tinship hole driller.

Hope you don't mind a minor correction  :) but his occupation in 1881 is iron ship driller and the family are living at 3 Zetland Street, not 7 (same as in the Jane's 1901 burial )
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Re: GRANGER family of Monkswearmouth
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 08 May 21 18:31 BST (UK) »
Corrections welcome ! I use a variety of sources so I'm sure transcription errors creep in there. In old-fashioned handwriting, 3 and 7 look quite similar sometimes.

 

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Re: GRANGER family of Monkswearmouth
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 08 May 21 18:43 BST (UK) »
Wondering whether he was in the workhouse with asbestosis.

You might need to get the death cert for that. I'm not sure that  the Workhouse records would be  online.

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/HoughtonLeSpring/


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Re: GRANGER family of Monkswearmouth
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 08 May 21 18:45 BST (UK) »
I seem to remember seeing an Elizabeth Fairclough Granger birth in the Sunderland area.

There’s this entry on GRO indexes

GRANGER, ELIZABETH  FAIRCLOUGH     mmn FAIRCLOUGH 
GRO Reference: 1872  J Quarter in SUNDERLAND  Volume 10A  Page 708

Edit to add her death

Elizabeth Fairclough Grainger age 14
Registration Quarter:   Jul-Aug-Sep 1886
Registration District:   Sunderland Durham Volume:   10a Page:   325
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Re: GRANGER family of Monkswearmouth
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 08 May 21 19:02 BST (UK) »
There is a burial of an Elizabeth Jane Granger of 5 Zetland Street in 1866 (Durham Records Online)  :-\
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Re: GRANGER family of Monkswearmouth
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 08 May 21 19:17 BST (UK) »
A link to the location of Zetland Street.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/101099531#zoom=6&lat=4078&lon=7762&layers=BT

Zoom in  and out to see the location in relation to the Wear/Docks.  I think it's just NE of the Glass Centre*  :)

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* before the pandemic, I used to go there quite often  :)
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Re: GRANGER family of Monkswearmouth
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 08 May 21 19:27 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat.

Robert/Hannah Bapt Kings Lynn
WILLIAM 13 Nov 1827
ROBERT 17 Feb 1831
WILLIAM 20 Jun 1833
HENRY 28 Mar 1835
Then at Gaywood;
BENJAMIN 07 Apr 1839 as Grange
JOHN 19 Sep 1841
THOMAS 21 Apr 1844 as Grange

All above on FreeREG (some records also have birth dates and residence and Roberts occp)


For info.

The  actual image of the 1835 baptism record for Henry Granger on family search

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XCZ2-7W?i=91&cc=1416598&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AJ924-J4P

You can also view baptism images for William, Robert & John Granger, just use surname & parents name
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Re: GRANGER family of Monkswearmouth
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 08 May 21 19:34 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat :-)

This looks quite likely to be your Henry Grainger:

Sunderland Daily Echo & Shipping Gazette
21 Jan 1895 page 3 col 1

STRANGE DEATH AT HOUGHTON

Yesterday morning, a man was found in a dying condition at Houghton limeworks, and being
removed to the workhouse there died very shortly afterwards. He was heard to say something about "Roker", which caused the county police to forward a description of the deceased to the Sunderland Authorities, with a view to identification.
The man is stated to be apparently from 50 to 55 years old, 5ft 4in. high, of fair complexion, with brown eyes, hair, whickers and moustache, turning grey; he was dressed when found in a blue reefer jacker, grey tweed trousers and waistcoat, grey tweed trousers and waistcoat, grey and white striped flanne shirt, fur cap, with blue cotton lining, grey worsted stiockings and old elastice sided boots.

The latest information is the the deceased is Henry Grainger, of 3 Zetland-street, Monkwearnouth. Grainger was recently fined half a crown at the Sunderland Poloce Court in a School Board prosecution case, and failing to pay was sent to Durham gaol for three days. He was liberated last Friday morning and it is supposed that he was tramping back to Sunderland when found, and had become exhausted.


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