Birth: January-February 1876 Gateshead, Durham, UK
Father: Thomas Collins Mason 1846-1891
Mother: Hannah Charlton c1850-1916
Christening: 27 February 1876 St James, Gateshead, Durham, UK
Marriage: 17 March 1898 St Edmund, Gateshead, Durham. UK
Wife: Eleanor Stephenson Kellett 1879-1921
Death: October-December 1931 Gateshead, Durham, UK
Irene Kellett Mason [Thirlaway] 1898-1956
Amy Charlton Mason [Lambert] 1901-1976
Birth of George Charlton Mason in FreeBMD in January-March 1876 in Gateshead (10A 935).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for George Charlton Mason baptised 27 February 1876 at St. James, Gateshead, Durham, parents Thomas Collins and Hannah Mason.
His sister was baptised on 20 October 1878 at St. James, Gateshead.
In the 1881 census as George Charlton Mason aged 5, born in Gateshead, and living with his parents (Thomas C and Hannah), brother (John Surtees) and sister (Mary Ann) in John Street, Gateshead, Durham.
His sister was registered in April-June 1882 in Gateshead.
His father died on 28 March 1891 at Havannah Terrace, Washington, Durham.
In the 1891 census as George C Mason aged 15, born in Gateshead, Durham, a colliery clerk, and living with his widowed mother (Hannah), brother (James S), and two sisters (Frances and Mary A) in four rooms at 11 Havannah Terrace, Washington, Durham.
Marriage of George Charlton Mason and Eleanor Stephenson Kellett in FreeBMD in January-March 1898 in Gateshead (10A 1119).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for George Charlton Mason, aged 22, father Thomas Collins Mason, and Eleanor Stephenson Kellett on 17 March 1898 at St. Edmund, Gateshead, Durham.
His first daughter was born on 9 June 1898 in Washington, Durham and second in 1901 in Boldon, South Shields.
In the 1901 census as George C Mason aged 24, born in Gateshead, Durham, a colliery mason foreman, and living with his wife (Eleanor S), daughter (Amy C) and a servant (Elizabeth B Jones aged 18, born in Gateshead, Durham and single) in four rooms at Bolden Colliery, Durham. His first daughter was living with her grandparents (George F and Isabella A Kellett) and their daughter (Isabella) at 7 Wood Row, Washington, Durham.
In the 1911 census as Geo Charlton Mason aged 35, born in Gateshead, Durham, a chief foreman in Surveyors Department of Borough Council, married for thirteen years with two children both living, and living with his with his wife (Eleanor Stevenson), two daughters (Amy Charlton and Irene Kellett), uncle (John Surtees Mason), and cousin (Hannah Surtees Mason) in four rooms at 2 Cramer Street, Gateshead, Durham.
His wife died in Gateshead in January-March 1921.
In the 1921 census as George Charlton Mason born in Gateshead, Durham in 1876, and living with Amy Charlton Mason (daughter?), and George (born in Durham in 1946) and Isabella Ann (born in Northumberland in 1846) Vellett in Gateshead, Durham.
Death of George C Mason in FreeBMD in October-December 1931 aged 55 in Gateshead (10A 914).
There are twenty eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for George Charlton Mason.
George Charlton Mason was the father of Irene Kellett Mason, wife of John Willie (William) Thirlaway, nephew 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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