Birth: 1855 Whickham, Durham, UK
Father: James Leck (Leek) c1818-1855
Mother: Jane Daglish 1825-1885
Christening: 1 November 1855 St Edmund, Gateshead, Durham, UK
Marriage: 22 May 1881 St Edmund, Gateshead, Durham, UK
Husband: Thomas Thirlaway 1858-1939
Death: January-March 1912 Gateshead, Durham, UK
Annie Jane Thirlaway [Allinson] 1883-1956
Lily Thirlaway 1889-1957
John Willie (William) Thirlaway 1894-1965
Four more unknown children died before 1911
Her father died in January-March 1855 in Gateshead
Birth of Margaret Leck in FreeBMD in October-December 1855 in Gateshead (10A 482).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for the baptism of Margaret Leek (sic) on 1 November 1855 in Gateshead, Durham, parents James and Jane Leek (sic).
In the 1861 census as Margaret Leck aged 5, born in Gateshead, Durham (Whickham on the original), and living with her widowed mother (Jane), and three sisters (Euphemia, Jane and Mary A) in Jeams?, Dunston and Whickham Lowland, Durham.
In the 1871 census as Margaret Wood (sic - in the index, Leck on the original) aged 16, born in Whickham, Durham and a servant living with John Wood (aged 28, born in Winlaton, Durham and an agricultural labourer), his wife (Mary Ann aged 21 and born in Whickham, Durham), and daughter (Jane Ann aged 11 months and born in Whickham, Durham) at Stand Alone, Ryton, Durham.
In the 1881 census as Margaret Leck aged 23, born in Whickham, Durham, single, and a servant living with Edward Henderson (aged 59,born in Allendale, Northumberland, widowed and a grocer), his daughter (Sarah Snowball aged 34, born in Haltwhistle, Northumberland, married and housekeeper), four grandsons (Arthur Ernest aged 1 and born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, Cuthbert aged 12 and born in Ponteland, Northumberland, Edward aged 6 and John Henson aged 2, both born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, all with surname Snowball), two granddaughters (Elizabeth aged 8 and born in Ponteland, Northumberland, and Hannah aged 4 and born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, both with surname Snowball) and a neice (Margaret E John aged 13 and born in Jarrow, Durham) at 54 Chirton, Northumberland.
Three entries in FreeBMD for the marriage of Margaret Lech in two and Margaret Leck in one to Thomas Thirlaway in April-June 1881 in Gateshead (10A 1042) - there are two entries on the typed original, one for Lech and one for Leck.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Margaret Leck aged 22, father James Leck, and single, and Thomas Thirlaway on 22 May 1881 at St. Edmund, Gateshead, Durham.
Her two daughters were born on 8 June 1883 and 22 October 1889 in Gateshead.
In the 1891 census as Margaret Thirlway (sic - on the original) aged 35, born in Gateshead, Durham), and living with her husband (Thomas), two daughters (Annie J and Lille), brother(in-law) (John J Thirlaway), nephew (John J) and neice (Sarah A) in three rooms at 43 Shipcote Terrace, Gateshead, Durham.
Her daughter was born on 17 October 1894 in Gateshead.
In the 1901 census as Margaret Thirlaway aged 45, born in Denston, Durham, and living with her husband (Thomas), son (John Willie), two daughters (Lily and Marie Jane), mother(-in-law) (Ann), nephew (John James) and neice (Sarah Ann) in four rooms at 217 Eastbourne Avenue, Gateshead, Durham.
In the 1911 census as Margaret Thirlaway aged 55, born in Gateshead, Durham, married for 29 years with seven children, four having died, and living with her husband (Thomas), son (John Willie) and two daughters (Annie Jane and Lily) in four rooms at 217 Eastbourne Avenue, Gateshead, Durham.
Death of Margaret Thirlaway in FreeBMD in January-March 1912 aged 56 in Gateshead (10A 1018).
There are twenty three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Margaret Leck.
Whickham is 4 miles west of Gateshead, with Dunston between the two at the A1/A184 insection.
Margaret Leck was the wife of Thomas Thirlaway, uncle of John James Thirlow, husband of Alice Johnston, first cousin 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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