Thomas was listed on John Stonehouse's marriage record. John Findley was a
witness as was John Bennett. Mariner;
Commission Agent; Birth record gives name as Thomas Brown but all other records give name as
William B. or William Brown Spens.
!Marriage gives occupation as commission agent, son W.E.B. Spens's birth record lists father as accountant, and Lavinia's death record lists father as a Pawn broker.
Age 10 in 1851 Census, St. Nicholas Parish, Newcastle/Tyne, Scotland, Film 087083, Folio 2984, p. 5, #23. Was informant at Father's death, and executor of will where name was listed as William Brown Spens, lived at 30 Maple Street, New Castle in Sep 1875 when father died.
Death index: William Brown Spens 56, Mar Q. Newcastle T. 10b 9, 1897, living at 22 Westmoreland Terrace in Newcastle.
1881 Census, Bensham Terrace, Gateshead, Durham, William B. Spens, railway clerk, age 40 with wife, Lavinia (spelled Louisa in the 1881 typed census) age 35 and son William E.B.Spens, age 5, also a nephew Robert H Roberts age 5--both children listed as scholars, both born in Newcastle.
1891 Census, Westgate, Northumberland, England; age 52
1891 Census, Westgate, Northumberland, England; age 44;
Joiner;
Mother's name listed on baptism record of daughter, Ester Harrison
Brass Turner; Birth registration 1865, address Church Coppenhall, mother Anne Crowther;
Sally (Sarah Ann Spens Hamilton md. Gibson) wrote that Lizzie Barlet's
father and my mother's aunt were brother and sister. Isabella wrote that Lizzie Bartlet was Sarah Ann's first cousin on her father's side. ?? Death record in index 1898 June Q., 10b 16, Newcastle T., age 31. informant was Martha Armstrong, 14 Laurel Street, Newcastle; family in 1891 Census Ref. Rg 12; 4194/folio 125/ page 2 Schedule No. 8, no. 5, Ferguson's Court, Railway Street; Lewis Hamilton 23, Isabella 21 and two children, George J., 3 and Sarah A, dau;
Birth record 1869 Sep Q, 10b. 84, District of Newcastle T. None of
Isabella's five children had any posterity; I.J. Brumwelly is the dau of John
Stonehouse on his death certificate, living at 23 Edward Street in Newcastle in 1939;
Isabella wrote to Clara Brown June 1940, stating that she had a son who had died of heart trouble at age 13.
Patricia Stonehouse recalls meeting Andrew Wilson; on son's birth registration
Andrew is shown as living at 34 Fleming Street, Gateshead, Gateshead, England,
occupation shown as hammerman, blacksmith;
Birth record 1869 Sep Q, 10b. 84, District of Newcastle T. None of
Isabella's five children had any posterity; I.J. Brumwelly is the dau of John
Stonehouse on his death certificate, living at 23 Edward Street in Newcastle in 1939;
Andy, according to his half-sister, Sally (Sarah Ann Spens Hamilton Gibson),
was a "bleeder" (hemophiliac) Isabella wrote in 1942 to Clara that she and
Andy, age 36, were the only ones left at home (in Newcastle); birth
registration show him living at 34 Fleming Street, Gateshead in 1905;
Birth record 1869 Sep Q, 10b. 84, District of Newcastle T. None of
Isabella's five children had any posterity; I.J. Brumwelly is the dau of John
Stonehouse on his death certificate, living at 23 Edward Street in Newcastle in 1939;
as yet not identified: Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland Margaret Haliday, ch 4 Oct 1741, baptized 5 Nov 1994, SLAKE, endowed 23 Feb 1995, SLAKE, and s parent 16 Mar 1995, SLAKE, dau of William Halliday and Margaret Aberneathy
William Halliday and Margaret Bishop married 19 Jun 1723 Kirkliston, West Lothian, Scotland sealing to spouse 20 Oct 1990, Provo, UT
William Halliday and Margaret Bishop married 28 Jun 1723 Mid Calder, Midlothian, Scotland, sealing to spouse 22 Oct 1990 SLAKE;
I!Birth record for John Thomas Stonehouse 1868 Mar Quarter, 10b. 86 Newcastle T. Christening record gives birth as 24 Feb.
District. Other information from Henry Stonehouse in correspondence with Fairel and Edna Spens. St. John's Cemetery was also known as Elswick;
A fitter and artist; John was a hemephiliac and was grateful he had no
daughters; married at age 18 by certificate (probably to avoid objection at
such a young age), listed himself as age 21 in 1886 instead of 18, Dec Quarter;
Death record 1921, died of Haemophylia and internal haemorrhage, living at 43
Clara Street, age 53.
Family letters referred to James and William's mother as Dina.
Henry Spens Stonehouse gave his brothers' mother as Angelina Clark; Death
record of Angelina Stonehouse Newcastle T, 1894, living at 3 Railway Street,
age 29, died of placent peania syncope; age 21 in Nov 1886 when she married,
living at 110 Blandford Street;
John Thomas William Stonehouse
Birth registration, living at 110 Blandford Street, Newcastle; death at 4
months, same address, cause of death was renal congestion, convulsions;
I!Birth record for John Thomas Stonehouse 1868 Mar Quarter, 10b. 86 Newcastle T. Christening record gives birth as 24 Feb.
District. Other information from Henry Stonehouse in correspondence with Fairel and Edna Spens. St. John's Cemetery was also known as Elswick;
A fitter and artist; John was a hemephiliac and was grateful he had no
daughters; married at age 18 by certificate (probably to avoid objection at
such a young age), listed himself as age 21 in 1886 instead of 18, Dec Quarter;
Death record 1921, died of Haemophylia and internal haemorrhage, living at 43
Clara Street, age 53.
Enfield is near London; death given in General Rigistry as sixteenth of
January 1949, Jane living at the time at 20 Newbury Avenue;
Nathaniel Spens Douse Brassfinisher
C004352 Batch, and library call number 847909, printout 6900320. Isabella
wrote in 1940 that "my brother Nat's wife lives in Glasgow and some of her
family lived in Canada for years." Birth record 1860 Sep Newcastle T. 10b
28.born at 61 Elswick East Terrace; Marriage record in index: 1881 June,
Newcastle T., 10 b. 179. Occupation given in wife's death record; according to a letter by John Stonehouse in 1903, Nat was tall, thin, and 42, and had 8
living children at the time. Letter dated Mar 1940, Nat's wife was living in Glasgow, apparently Nat has died.
According to a letter from Harry Spens Stonehouse, son of John Thomas
Stonehouse, Martha, his aunt, died of war injuries in Glasgow as did 2 grdchrn, a boy Tommy and a girl Ellen, 9 and 11, children of dau Ellen, during the big air raid in 1942. Two other grandchildren left England after the war and went to Canada to a relative named Nathaniel Douse. Index of Death record for Martha Ellen Douse, age 81, Old Kilpatrick, 250, Lanarkshire; the actual death record gives Dunbarton as the county, living at 17 Dunn Street in Dalmuir, cause of death Influenza; Marriage record gives surname as Nixon; 1881 Census of Westgate, Northumberland, England, RG11, Piece 5048, Folio 88 page 22;
1891 Census, Ref, RG 12 / 4200 /folio 133 / p. 19, S. No. 26; 14, Edward
Street, two rooms occupied; scholar; also known as Lizzie;
birth registration living at 10 Edwards St; 1891 Census, Ref, RG 12/4200
/folio 133 / p. 19, S. No. 26; 14, Edward Street, two rooms occupied; scholar;
Birth recorded living at 14 Edward Street in Newcastle; W N Douse, son of
Martha Ellen Douse, reported his mother's death and gave his own address as
43 Chestnut Drive, Dalmuir, Dunbarton, Scotland; never married;
Birth record #152, born at 14 Edward Street, Newcastle U. T.
Birth record #377, born at 14 Edward Street, Newcastle U. T.
thought to have lived in Glasgow; had a son named Cuthbert and adopted a girl named Effie;
Birth record #103, born at 14 Edward Street, Newcastle U. T.
Death record Jun Quarter, 10b 22, 1899, Civil Registration index