Birth: Circa 1837 Corbridge, Northumberland, UK
Father: Ralph Armstrong 1809-1872
Mother: Elizabeth Hudson c1813-1839
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1859 in Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland, UK
Wife: Margaret Patterson c1832-1883
Marriage: October-December 1886 Gateshead, Durham, UK
Wife: Mary Ann Porter 1859-1928
Death: January-March 1913 Gateshead, Durham, UK
By Margaret
Ralph Armstrong c1860-a1901
Margaret Armstrong c1870-a1901
William Armstrong c1874-a1881
Ann Isabella Armstrong c1877-1877
By Mary
William Thomas Gills Armstrong 1887-1974
Mary Armstrong [Clark, Rockett] 1890-1958
Catherine Armstrong 1896-1908
Robert Armstrong 1898-1939
Another unknown child died before 1911.
His mother was buried on 20 January 1839 at St Andrew, Corbridge, Northumberland.
In the 1841 census as William Armstrong aged 3, born in Northumberland, and living with Robert and Elizabeth Armstrong (grandparents?), Ralph Armstrong (father?), Cathrine Armstrong (aunt?), and Elizabeth and Mary Armstrong (sisters?) in Meldon, Northumberland.
In the 1851 census as William Armstrong aged 13, born in Corbridge, Northumberland, an agricultural labourer and living with his widowed father (Ralph) and sister (Elizabeth) in Meldon Lane Houses, Meldon, Northumberland.
Marriage of William Armstrong and Margaret Patterson in FreeBMD in April-June 1859 in Newcastle on Tyne (sic - in the index, Newcastle T on the handwritten original) (10B 76).
In the 1861 census as William Armstrong aged 22, born in Northumberland, a labourer, and living with his wife (Margrat) and son (Ralph born in Cumberland), all lodging with Thomas Calvart (aged 37, born in Roxby, Yorkshire and an agricultural labourer), his wife (Ellen aged 33 and born in Roxby, Yorkshire), two sons (James aged 6 and John aged 10, both born in Roxby, Yorkshire), daughter (Sarah A aged 11 months and born in Roxby, Yorkshire), and another lodger (Thomas Swales aged 46, born in Rarstuby (Borrowby?), Yorkshire, single and an agricultural labourer) in High Lodge, Roxby, Yorkshire.
In the 1871 census as William Armstrong aged 33, born in Corbridge, Northumberland, a draner and living with his wife (Margaret), two sons (James born in Crouhall, Northumberland and Ralph born in Crowhall, Northumberland) and daughter (Margaret born in Slatyford, Northumberland) in Kenton, Northumberland.
In the 1881 census as William Armstrong aged 44, born in Corbridge, Northumberland, a coal miner, and living with his wife (Margaret), two sons (Ralph born in Cramlington, Northumberland, and William born in Ponteland, Northumberland) and two daughters (Annabella born in Whickham, Durham, and Margaret born in Slateyford, Northumberland) in Pit Bank, Whickham, Durham.
His wife died in October-December 1883 in Gateshead.
Marriage of William Armstrong and Mary Ann Porter in FreeBMD in October-December 1886 in Gateshead (10A 1048).
His son was registered in July-September 1887 in Gateshead.
His daughter was registered in April-June 1890 in Gateshead.
In the 1891 census as William Armstrong aged 53, born in Corbridge, Northumberland, a coal ?, and living with his wife (Mary Ann), son (Thomas Gill), daughter (Mary), and four boarders (Ellener Mitchell aged 31 and a widow, Martha J Oxley aged 11, Willie Oxley aged 4 and Isabell Mitchell aged 1, all born in Swalwell, Durham) in two rooms in Back Whickham Road, Whickham (the descrption is the west side of the village of Swalwell).
His daughter was registered in January-March 1893 in Gateshead.
His daughter was registered in July-September 1896 in Gateshead.
His son was born on 17 September 1898 and registered in April-June 1898 in Gateshead.
In the 1901 census as William Armstrong aged 64, born in Swalwell, Durham, a labourer at colliery bank, and living with his wife (Mary Ann), two sons (Robert and Thomas Gills) and two daughters (Mary and Catherine) in two rooms in Buckbank, Whickham, Durham (part of the ecclesiastical parish of Swalwell).
In the 1911 census as William Armstrong aged 73, born in Corbridge, Northumberland, not working late colliery cartman above ground colliery screener, and living with his wife (Mary Ann) and and two sons (Robert and Thomas Gills) in two rooms in Harbottles Buildings, Swalwell, Durham. The entry indicates he was married twice with eleven children, five still living, six having died, but five with his second wife, three still living, two having died.
Death of William Armstrong in FreeBMD in January-March 1913 aged 74 in Gateshead (10A 1336).
There are fifty entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Armstrong.
Swalwell is just south of where the A1 crosses the River Derwent 4 miles west of Gateshead and 1 mile NW of Whickham. Gateshead became part of Durham North Western on 1 July 1938.
William Armstrong was the father of Mary Armstrong and grandfather of Elizabeth Ann Armstrong, both wives of Henry Rockett Aldridge, husband of Doris Grieveson, second cousin once removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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