Birth: 31 May 1886 New Silksworth, Durham, UK
Father: James McChesney c1848-1922
Mother: Isabella Minnis 1852-1928
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1910 Houghton, Durham, UK
Wife: Christina Robinson 1887-1971
Death: April-June 1948 East Durham, UK
William Alexander Chesney 1911-1995
Elsie Chesney 1912
Jennie Chesney 1914
Ada R Chesney 1917
Osmond Chesney 1920
Frederick Chesney 1921-1995
Christina Chesney 1927
Birth of Robert Chesney in FreeBMD in July-September 1886 in Sunderland (10a 572).
In the 1891 census as Robert Chesney aged 4, born in Silksworth, Durham, and living with his parents (James and Isabella), five brothers (Alex, Hugh Mark, Jas, John and William) and three sisters (Jane, Margaret and Sarah) in four rooms at 43 Castlereagh Street, Bishopwearmouth, Durham.
In the 1901 census as Robert Chesney aged 14, born in New Silksworth, Durham, a ships joiner, and living with his parents (James and Isabella), four brothers (Albert C, James, Tom and William) and three sisters (Jane, Margret and Sarah N) in four rooms at 43 Castlereagh Street, Tunstall, Durham.
Marriage of Robert Chesney and Christina Robinson in FreeBMD in January-March 1910 in Houghton (10a 916).
In the 1911 census as Robert Chesney aged 23, born in New Silksworth, Durham, a coal miner, and living with his wife (Christina) in three rooms at 6 Warrick Terrace, Silksworth, Durham.
His first six children were born in Houghton in 1911 to 1921, and last in Sunderland in 1927.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Robert Chesney, born 31 May 1886, married, ? Coal mine (below) and a GRP full time warden and living with Christina Chesney (wife?), Ala R, Jennie and Elsie Chesney (daughters?) and one other at 50 Somerset Cottages (between York Street and Somerset Street) Sunderland, Durham.
Death of Robert Chesney in FreeBMD in April-June 1948 aged 61 in Durham E (1a 290).
There are three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Robert Chesney born in Silksworth, Durham in 1887, parents James Chesney (one has Mc Chesney) and Isabella Minnis, two adding his marriage to Christina, and one his son William Alexander.
Robert Chesney was the father of Frederick Chesney, husband of Merle Katharine Fleeman, Felicity's fifth cousn once removed.
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